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Six Degrees of Separation – from Ghost Cities to The End of the Morning

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It’s time for #6degrees. Start at the same place as other wonderful readers, add six books, and see where you end up.

This month we begin with the winner of the 2025 Miles Franklin Literary Award, Ghost Cities by Siang Lu. Continue reading →

Things That Are Making Me Happy This Week

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01. The Mourning After is a project that invites people to explore grief in all its forms. It’s focused on grief as a social practice and aims to improve ‘grief literacy’. The project currently includes an exhibition – it’s really wonderful. Continue reading →

How to Do Nothing by Jenny Odell

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Confession: I don’t really have a problem with disconnecting/ doing nothing/ having vast amounts of unstructured time/ ‘resisting the attention economy’ (hmmm… is that a confession or a boast…?).

Nevertheless, I picked up Jenny Odell’s book, How to Do Nothing, partly because I found her more recent book, Saving Time, interesting. Continue reading →