I had a major craving for Indian food on Saturday so the husband went and picked up three vegetable curries, tandoori fish and naan from our favourite Indian-Pakistani place. So good. 

 

I posted about book covers that featured the backs of women!

This is the first time I grew flowers from bulbs. Here I have ranunculus. And I’ve got some tulips coming up too! 

Red bean pancake and golden milk buns (served with condensed milk) are the highlight of our Saturday lunch!

 

 

Currently…

 

Reading:

 

 

 

 

Watching:

The Grand Tour

Mad Men

The Night Manager 

Listening:

This is the story of a happy marriage – Ann Patchett

 

Eating:

 

A Super Duper burger and I love their lemonade!
Drinking:
 

 Well I was supposed to drink this milkshake but someone is finishing it

Browsing:

This cute Rube Goldberg-esque rock band machine! (Boing Boing)

365 books by women authors (NYPL)

Valeria Luiselli on the choices people make in coming to America (Lit Hub)

The green card application is nothing like the intake questionnaire for undocumented minors. When you apply for a green card you have to answer things like “Do you intend to practice polygamy?” and “Are you a member of the Communist Party?” and “Have you ever knowingly committed a crime of moral turpi­tude?” And although nothing can or should be taken lightly when you are in the fragile situation of asking for permission to live in a country that is not your own, there is something almost innocent in the green card application’s preoccupations with and visions of the future and its possible threats: polyamorous debauchery, communism, weak morals!

BookDragon reviews Temporary People 

Also the Man Booker International Prize longlist came out. I have not read any of these and haven’t heard of many of them before this! Intrigued.

• Mathias Enard (France), Charlotte Mandell, Compass (Fitzcarraldo Editions)
• Wioletta Greg (Poland), Eliza Marciniak, Swallowing Mercury (Portobello Books)
• David Grossman (Israel), Jessica Cohen, A Horse Walks Into a Bar (Jonathan Cape)
• Stefan Hertmans (Belgium), David McKay, War and Turpentine (Harvill Secker)
• Roy Jacobsen (Norway), Don Bartlett, Don Shaw, The Unseen (Maclehose)
• Ismail Kadare (Albania), John Hodgson, The Traitor’s Niche (Harvill Secker)
• Jon Kalman Stefansson (Iceland), Phil Roughton, Fish Have No Feet (Maclehose)
• Yan Lianke (China), Carlos Rojas, The Explosion Chronicles (Chatto & Windus)
• Alain Mabanckou (France), Helen Stevenson, Black Moses (Serpent’s Tail)
• Clemens Meyer (Germany), Katy Derbyshire, Bricks and Mortar (Fitzcarraldo Editions)
• Dorthe Nors (Denmark), Misha Hoekstra, Mirror, Shoulder, Signal (Pushkin Press)
• Amos Oz (Israel), Nicholas de Lange, Judas (Chatto & Windus)
• Samanta Schweblin (Argentina), Megan McDowell, Fever Dream (Oneworld)

S’mores Stout Milkshakes! S’mores Stour Milkshakes! (How Sweet It Is)

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