Issue #50
Hi Page Turners,
Welcome to this week's RECAP. Unless you have been living under a rock you will have heard Kansas City Chiefs won the Super Bowl. I am not into American football but I have to admit with all the talk and coverage surrounding the Super Bowl I was intrigued. I still didn't watch it but I was updated with Taylor Swift because lets face it the only reason I was interested was because of her. Did you watch the Super Bowl are you a fan? Let me know by leaving a comment below or replying back to this email.
Reading 📚
I finished Signal Fires by Dani Shapiro. A lyrical book intertwining the sky full of star's with the fate of the characters and the stories, love and loss they hold. Read my full review here: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6240699449?book_show_action=false I
I also finished an 🎧 audio book called 'Everyday Wellness: 12 steps to a healthier, happier you by MaryRuth Ghiyam.' As I am on my health journey I want to continue to educate myself on ways I can better myself. This audio book which encourages twelve actionable steps really inspired me to adopt to my own routine and hopefully it can improve my health for the better. Review here: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6240720729?book_show_action=false
Articles of interest 📰
Such a heart-warming, moving article discussing motherhood, life and death a love letter to the moon and understanding oneself https://lithub.com/motherhood-and-the-moon-on-liminal-states-of-change-and-uncertainty/
She is also the author of the book called 'Our Moon: How Earth's Celestial Companion Transformed the Planet, Guided Evolution, and Made Us Who We Are' by Rebecca Boyle and this is straight on my TBR pile.
Prince Harry settled his lawsuit with Mirror Group Newspapers, the tabloid that hacked his phone (amongst others). This is justice but I hope it serves as a bigger lesson to all publishers and the way journalism is conducted.
On January 29, Elon Musk announced that his tech startup ' Neuralink' had implanted a chip in a human brain for the first time. As technology is getting more advanced this doesn't come as a surprise however I think their should be more conversations/research/experimentation to be done before we start doing it as a matter of competition and because people have money to burn. It is the same as sending rockets to space. Musk also had mentioned that a product called 'Telepathy' Neuralink’s first product, would one day allow people to control their phones or computers just by thinking. I think he has been reading 1984.
It is election year hear in the UK and this interview with Vigue with the Labour leader Keir Starmer: https://www.vogue.co.uk/article/keir-starmer-british-vogue-interview sheds a light on his background and his road to politics. It was interesting reading especially that he was a lawyer.
Dua Lipa's book club never fails to deliver. Her book of the month for February is one of my favourite books 'A Thousand Splendid Suns' by Khalid Hosseini and hear is a video where she is in conversation with the author about the book.
Israel are not satisfied with killing and attacking Palestinians in their own home and instead are launching an offensive in Rafah where they are displaced due to the war. With heads of States condemning this they need to do more such as imposing sanctions on Israel (as they did to Russia- with the Ukraine war) and continue to pressure Israel to get them to stop and demand an immediate cease-fire. Israel is already in breach of international law as it fails to provide food and water and it is impossible for Palestinians to leave Rafah I would say they are already in breach of International law it is just a matter of when the rest of the world will wake up to witness Israel's war crimes.
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