Recent home library acquisition:
📖 Vesper Flights by Helen Macdonald
"Deep down, I think we all sensed the ways that Jackass, as we saw it, was a kind of community-building, of getting closer to those you love by partaking in the stupidest, most humiliating, most dangerous acts imaginable. " — Natalie Marlin for Bright Wall/Dark Room
https://www.brightwalldarkroom.com/2025/05/30/laughing-with-the-pain?src=longreads
Why ‘ocean time’ reveals new ways of seeing the world | Aeon Essays…
An appreciation of the immensity embedded in the ocean’s cycles offers a way to reimagine our relationship with time... #oceans #water #essays #environment #time
Final Fantasy VII Confronts Capitalism: Tifa Lockhart vs. Medical Debt
Tifa Lockhart never had any intention of changing the world, but as the Final Fantasy VII Remake prequel novel Traces of Two Pasts demonstrates, sometimes the start of something big is as easy as offering a welcoming space (and perhaps a drink) to a friend who could use a
https://sidequest.zone/2025/06/02/final-fantasy-vii-confronts-capitalism/
#Essays #VideoGames #FinalFantasyVII #TifaLockhart #TracesOfTwoPasts
"I cherished the whole sequin-heavy, three-hour, glittery, multicultural spectacle that was our continent’s pop music Olympics." #longreads @vesnajaksic @ElectricLit
#longreads #nonfiction #eurovision #essays #europe #immigration
"While his father was supposedly driving Porsches and cashing paychecks from GQ Magazine, Thompson was growing up the only son of a nurse in Anchorage." —Will Steinfield for Chilkat Valley News