5 Things I Consumed Last Week (brewing ☕)
on the remains of the day, my mess is a bit of life, mr. robot, amits from africa and living a life worth living
Hello Nello!
That’s me handling things on a Monday (which I am dreading again already), I have got a lot of things which remain unfinished this week (work as always tops the list, two new books I have started reading, holiday prep and much more) and hence the title ‘brewing’ - which reminds me of the song ‘coffee and patience’ which is on my running playlist (cause of these lyrics):
Days are like water, seeping through my hands
It feels like a race, and I'm running in sand
Towards a promised land
I wish for a will that is made out of lead
To fly with the superheroes over my head
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The Remains of the Day | Kazuo Ishiguro
I started reading this only because I have so far enjoyed reading two other books (this one and this one) from him - both sci-fi, both dystopian.
I expected this to be the same but to my surprise, it is the story of an English butler named Stevens who decides to take road trip to the West Country of England— after havingworked as a butler for 34 years. The novel is set in the years leading up to World War II and is told from Stevens' PoV.
I am almost 40 pages down and there’s a lot of detail (NGL boring at times), I am just hoping it will end on a much deeper note.
My Mess Is a Bit of a Life | Georgia Pritchett
Written by a multi-award winning comedy and drama writer, production credits include Veep and Succession, it is an absolutely hilarious read.
Part memoir, part self-deprecating, part relatable but in all parts damn funny, I am just a few pages in and I am enjoying it to the core. There are very few books that make you laugh out loud (quite literally) and I have found one after a long time (read after this book)
Will share an annotation as soon as I am done reading :)
We Are All Amits from Africa | The Seen and The Unseen
2.5 hours in and I am lovin it!
A conversation with Krish Ashok and Narendra Shenoy and possibly all things WOKE - from busting myths about food, some wisdom on writing, music, creativity, intelligent references, religion and much more.
I can’t describe Krish better than this bio, so if this intrigues you, dive right in.
Krish Ashok is not a chef but cooks daily. He is not a scientist, but he can explain science with easy-to-understand clarity. He learnt to cook from the women in his family, who can make the perfectly fluffy idli without lecturing people on lactobacilli and pH levels. He likes the scientific method not because it offers him the ability to bully people with knowledge, but because it confidently lets him say, 'I don't know, let me test it for myself.
Live a life worth living | Letters of Note
I stumbled on this newsletter a few months back (check this issue) and it resurfaced again via James Clear’s newsletter this week, so I had to read this issue.
I just want you to read the intro and try stopping yourself from reading it {Friendly warning: It’s too emo ;( }
On 19 March 2018, almost five years after being diagnosed with Stage IV colon cancer, forty-two-year-old Julie Yip-Williams died, leaving behind a husband and two daughters. Her early years had been anything but easy. Born blind in Vietnam, at two months of age she was almost euthanised on the orders of a grandmother who deemed her to be defective; years later, as an older child, she sailed to Hong Kong with her family and hundreds of other refugees in search of a more peaceful life, eventually settling down in the US where her life improved drastically. She was soon given partial sight by a surgeon, studied at Harvard, and became a successful lawyer, but then, in her thirties, she was struck down by the illness that would kill her. It was then that she began to write what would become a posthumously published memoir, The Unwinding of the Miracle. In July 2017, a year before she passed away, Yip-Williams wrote the following letter to her young daughters.
Mr. Robot | Amazon Prime Video
Dark, paranoid, trippy, thriller, delusional!
I am sure some of you must have watched it. For those who haven’t, it is the story of Elliot (played by the outstanding Rami Malek), a mentally unstable, morphine-addicted, depressive loner cybersecurity engineer and hacker genius who is recruited by an enigmatic character who calls himself "Mr. Robot" to be part of a radical group of hacktivists called fsociety.
What gradually unfolds is their attack on capitalism and much more! I am only two epsiodes down and it is indeed engaging till now.
That’s all for this time folks! See you next week.
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