pickShakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent, by Judi Dench and Brendan O‘Hea (2024)
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Premise: One of our greatest living actors reflects on her career and Shakespeare‘s plays.
Review: I mean… This is just perfect. I‘m a respecter of Shakespeare far more than a lover, but this made me wish I loved him as much as the authors do. ⬇️
pickThis is an amusingly daft book. It's quite self-indulgent and very silly, with Ayoade interviewing himself and going off on rambling tangents, but that's kind of the point. There are a million foot notes, which he's very keen to point out don't come across well in audio and he keeps saying you should have bought the print book instead, which I found really funny.
pick"I don't know what's gonna happen tomorrow. But I am here, so I might as well fucking enjoy it, and help my community if I can"
Words to live by!! Miss Major passed away last month. She was an inspiration as she says many times here, not many Black Trans people get to live to be in their 80s, what an amazing life she has had. Not easy, but amazing. I like how she spoke of Trans rights reminding us to be good allies by not assuming ?
"It's like being on a road, it doesn't matter if it's the yellow brick road, or pavement, or gravel. It's still a road and where it takes you is where you're going. And I think the journey is how you use that road- if you stay on it and the path that it's leading you down, or you venture off and do something else and create a path of your own."
#NonfictionNovember is here!
#WeeklyForecast
I am halfway into the tagged would like to finish tomorrow.
I am planning on reading one chapter from Far From The Tree a day, there are 12 chapters but I am looking realistically at a full 2 weeks I understand it is a dense one.
Supplementing with the brilliant Ta-Nehisi Coates and the inspiring Jacinda Ardern
"I didn't get to eighty years old being sweet and gentle. I'm no flower. Fuck that. I'm a cactus - get over it "
https://www.heatherweidner.com/blog/2025/5/1/thisorthatthursday-with-kay-sparlin...
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Bookish Pair: All About Me!, by Mel Brooks (2021) now