#FictionFriday Review: “A Tale for the Time Being” by Ruth Ozeki

There is so much to enjoy in “A Tale for the Time Being.” Ozeki is a wonderful writer, and her prose is both nuanced and immensely readable. Nao is also an incredibly interesting character to read, both bright and bubbly and deeply troubled. However what I love most about “A Tale”  is how Ozeki subtly weaves together concepts from literature, philosophy, quantum mechanics, biology, ecology and religion into a single narrative.  

Happy International Women’s Day! 👩🏾‍🔬👩🏻‍⚖️👩🏼‍🔧👩🏾‍🎓👩🏼‍🚀🧕🏻👩🏼‍🏫👩🏽‍⚕️👩🏻‍💼

⁠⁠ ⁠⁠Happy International Women’s Day to all the brilliant women who are researching, experimenting, communicating, building, engineering, dreaming, designing, analysing, discovering, writing, supporting, caring, raising, and hoping for a better world. Happy IWD to the mothers, grandmothers, elders, godmothers, aunts and aunties who came before us and lit the way for us. Together we will

Quote of the Day

This must be one of my most favourite quotes. It’s long but beautiful, and it never fails to make me feel what it might be like to be a flock of birds. 🦅 ⁠ “As a boy, a boy, I sometimes sat down from my wandering only to wake up an hour later, surprised to