Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris

It's no wonder Tiffany dreads my visits. Even when silent, I seem to broadcast my prissy disapproval, comparing the woman she is with the woman she will never be, a sanitized version who struggles with real jars and leaves other people's teeth and frozen turkeys where she finds them.

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Stasiland: Oh Wasn't it so Terrible - True Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall by Anna Funder

I like trains, I like their rhythm and I like the freedom of being suspended between two places, all anxieties of purpose taken care of.

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Zoo City by Lauren Beukes

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The Third Reich at War, 1939-1945 - Richard J. Evans

The warm simplicity of her [Ilse Weber] settings was never more moving than in her lullaby 'Viegela', which she reportedly sang to children from the camp, including her son Tommy, as she accompanied them voluntarily into the gas chamber at Auschwitz on 6 October 1944:

Viegala Viegala ville
Now is the world so still!
No sound disturbs the lovely peace
My little child, now go to sleep.

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Mapping of Treason's Harbour Complete

My map of the events in Treasons Harbour is complete. Despite the massive distraction of starting work at goCatch, I still managed to finish within a year which puts me on track to finish all the books in 2022.

A few fictional locations at key points in the book gave pause, but I am getting better at accepting that I can't pinpoint every location exactly and making my educated guesses more quickly. Looking forward to The Far Side of the World.

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