Tim Hardin - "How can we hang on to a dream?"

one of those sentimental songs I've always loved yet would not for the world be able to remember

Swedish words about travel

flygskam - shame of flying

tågskryt - train brag

Marina Dyachenko & Sergey Dyachenko - "Vita Nostra" (translated by Julia Meitov Hersey)

One of the most amazing books I have read in a long time.  Hints of Steven Hall's "The Raw Shark Text".

Even though the backflap or a review had hinted at the outcome, it was an amazingly capturing book where a girl gets somewhat unwittingly enrolled in a "university of special skills" and slowly deconstructs herself by reading impossible texts, doing impossible mental exercises, to finally emerge as a Word from the Speech.

Here they are, eating and drinking. They are still almost entirely human; they have human psyches and human bodies. With time, during the learning process, they will come out of their human skin and become Words, tools of Speech, the bones of tendons of a highly complex text that is called reality. Words know no fear, and no death. Words are free and conform only to Speech. And Speech – Sasha knew this! – is the core of harmony.

Andor

yet another star wars series; weird pacing, the first few episodes are alright, then the third gets really good.. .then things slow down again until the finale.

Still, nice stuff.

Loki

enjoyable enough during a flight; suffers a bit from the usual Marvel drivel of endless amazing Final Endtime shizzle.