Finished reading 51. Forest of Noise, by Mosab Abu Toha, 2024, which centres around his life in Gaza in recent years. I thought Abu Toha's previous collection Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear was excellent and this new book lived up to my hopes. Warning for the author living in a war zone, obviously.
Nearly finished 52. The Museum of Whales You Will Never See: And Other Excursions to Iceland's Most Unusual Museums, by A. Kendra Greene, 2020, which is non-fiction (mostly) essays about the meaning and practice of making and keeping museums in the context of the 266 museums (official tourist board count) in Iceland where the population is about 330,000 people (= 1 museum for every 1250 people). Written as a cross between quirky popular travel writing and Granta's thinky-thoughts house style.
Quote: "Siggi is not a collector. There was that time he kept a belly-button lint collection to disturb his daughter-in-law - which proved effective - but with objective achieved he abandoned the project."
Next: I fancy some fiction but my concentration span is short, lol.
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Date: 2025-05-14 12:21 pm (UTC)Nearly finished 52. The Museum of Whales You Will Never See: And Other Excursions to Iceland's Most Unusual Museums, by A. Kendra Greene, 2020, which is non-fiction (mostly) essays about the meaning and practice of making and keeping museums in the context of the 266 museums (official tourist board count) in Iceland where the population is about 330,000 people (= 1 museum for every 1250 people). Written as a cross between quirky popular travel writing and Granta's thinky-thoughts house style.
Quote: "Siggi is not a collector. There was that time he kept a belly-button lint collection to disturb his daughter-in-law - which proved effective - but with objective achieved he abandoned the project."
Next: I fancy some fiction but my concentration span is short, lol.