Mikoyan and the Diamonds

stream big love

if i restart reading john turner's biography of joseph turner now (i started reading it last summer and put it on indefinite pause when school started) maybe i can time to finish it on the anniversary of his assassination (june 27th)

I will say that I need to continue putting effort into reading good, serious fiction specifically though, my top monthly reads for January, March, and April have all been non-fiction despite me reading way more fiction in general. I'm reading a lot of great nonfiction at least! And it is definitely good to have some fun-but-not-that-deep fiction reads too but a) I have had some genuine misses fiction-wise this year too b) I need to challenge myself with fiction because when I do, I usually really enjoy the books. My top book of May was fiction (Rabih Alameddine's The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (And His Mother) which I absolutely loved btw go read it!) and my top book for June will probably be The Name of the Rose so my fiction reading is on an upward trajectory I guess at least.

i've been doing this like top reads of each month 2026 book bracket and i fear the mirror and the light will sweep the year...i guess the goal is to aim high and try to read something else that is so good the mirror and the light has serious competition

cromwell proposing marriage out of nowhere to wolsey's illegitimate daughter who is a literal nun is the most painful thing ive ever seen

I will say I love the Wolf Hall series’ take on Jane Seymour who is so frequently underdeveloped

first time I saw someone in Russia using mayo instead of sour cream in borscht I was shook but it actually does kind of work. I’m not eating borscht but I just put mayo on refried beans and it’s not half bad.

had the CRAZIEST dream last night where i was vacationing at a really bougie hotel somewhere in europe but people were like. living in a crawlspace in the ceiling and coming down and busting up the furniture

finished wolf hall season one and starting the second season. Part of this is obviously just what I’m used to but I feel like all the recastings are downgrades so far :(

what if i reread wolf hall