Under Siege Again
- Writing this on a Beyoğlu day under siege again, sigh. The whole neighborhood is locked down just because some people want to celebrate who they are…
- We started packing today and I’ll be writing next week’s update in our new apartment. Even though I don’t feel excited about leaving our neighborhood, I’m excited to leave this apartment and finally be done with this whole moving thing.
- I finished reading The Shadow of the Torturer. Although I wasn’t hooked by it immediately, it turned out to be a great read. I’ll definitely continue the New Sun series, but I want to finish The Time Regulation Institute, which I’ve been reading since January!
- I started reading To Have or to Be? by Erich Fromm for the upcoming IndieWeb Book Club. Having read his On Disobedience and Escape from Freedom, I started the book with a positive bias, but after finishing 1/3 of it, I’ve got nothing good to say (yet). I don’t want to go into details right now before finishing the book, and I’ll write a review for the book club anyway.
- We watched two movies: Fargo (1996) and The Ugly Stepsister (2025). Fargo was simply great storytelling and a fun watch. For some reason it reminded me of Killer Joe (2011), although Killer Joe was much, much rougher (I still can’t forget that chicken drumstick scene). The Ugly Stepsister was amazing too. It’s a retelling of the Cinderella story but from the point of view of the stepsister rather than Cinderella. I really like this new(?) genre of telling known stories from different perspectives, ever since I first saw it in Hamnet (2025).