Brett Hetherington 🍉

Another new ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ reader review (that makes it all worthwhile) "Strikingly akin to George Orwell’s Homage to Catalonia. Exudes authenticity and realism. A book meant more for explorers than for tourists..." bretthetherington.blogspot.com/2022/06/anothe…

#doublethink

I love the patina of this well-travelled old suitcase. Imagine its travel history.

The empathy for his mother and the clarity of expression is so easy to see...and in fact I found it made me cry. The lonely boy, a trapped mother, refuge and escape of play for both of them. Pacino writes exactly as he speaks. I can't wait to read it. #Memoir

One of the greatest actors... with an evolved conscience. I applaud. (Confirmed, original source: his Instagram account.)

Iberia looking like grilled cheese on toast but with the bitter burnt bits as mountain ranges that slowed the Romans down.

Peter Bush’s translation are always superb. His work on Juan Goytisolo’s memoirs + “Campos de Níjar,” (a travelogue that detailed the harsh social and economic conditions in 1950s Andalucia) was also brilliantly translated into English by Bush. #booktwt literaryrambles.wordpress.com/2025/07/01/sni…

This wonderful memory when a young Aitana Bonmarti visited the Olive Tree School in Catalonia (where my wife still teaches + my son pictured in front of her) over a decade ago. This week, she scored a superb goal that has taken Spain into this year's Euro cup football finals.

Heartbreaking

"As the "inhumane killing" of civilians continues, it's hard not to think the lessons history tries to teach us are being completely ignored..."

The Dutch–German border wasn’t always so invisible. Thomas Jefferson crossed it somewhere near here in 1788 and was amazed by the differences between two countries which he like many Americans had assumed were largely identical. ~Ben Coates Book: The Rhine

The UK govt finds another new way to snatch human rights from its people.

Sorry to say that's it. The universal credit bill has been passed. Not a great advert for the #Lords this evening, despite a small number of good speeches by those opposed. Full report by DNS on Thursday. Not feeling thrilled about democracy this evening. #UniversalCreditBill

#nocomment

🧵The Israeli army has committed one of its most heinous massacres against starving civilians waiting for humanitarian aid in northern #Gaza. The army ordered the civilians to approach aid trucks with their hands raised and then opened fire on them without provocation

I love this idea.

Anyone who has to think more than a few seconds is not really thinking at all.

"All the countries and towns united against Trump's world dictatorship." A Spanish Communist party's version of Pravda (The Truth) for sale for one euro by a roving representation in Barcelona's Plaza Catalunya train station. This week.

"Obviously, I believe that to pursue the American Dream is not only futile but self-destructive because ultimately it destroys everything and everyone involved with it." ------author, Hubert Selby Jr