Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke A great premise, a garbage book The Many Lives of Anne Frank by Ruth Franklin A rigorous and fascinating look at a diary we all think we know

The Song of Stork and Dromedary by Anjet Daanje What an incredible book Antwerp by Roberto Bolaño I am still chewing over parts of this Rites of Passage by William Golding Rich English people at sea are boring I'm a Fan by Sheena Patel Good, but I'm slightly too old for it to resonate

The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton A real take down of society in the early 1900s and yet still a bit of a page turner Blindsight by Peter Watts Look, I'm just not into vampires in space The Annual Migration of Clouds by Premee Mohamed An interesting premise but the execution is muddy

My September reading wrap. I had a whole lot of winners last month.

Navi Pillay, a South African-born jurist and former U.N. human rights chief, won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for efforts that the award committee said promoted international law as it comes under attack.

Navi Pillay, the veteran South African-born jurist who won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, made a name for herself defending the rights of Nelson Mandela and leading a panel that found that Israel committed genocide in Gaza.

What week. The Trump administration has imposed sweeping new sanctions on the International Criminal Court as part of its campaign to dismantle the tribunal over investigations into the United States and its allies, including Israel.

The United States has issued sanctions against the International Criminal Court.

*ad hoc

Called it.

I had the pleasure of joining the Gender Justice in International Criminal Law Conference.

All warrants at the court as issued sealed unless judges decide to unseal them.

No, there was at least one Sudanese case, Al-Rahman, which had a gender focus. It is the first time (I am pretty sure) that the LGBT stuff is included.

The International Criminal Court has unsealed arrest warrants against four senior Taliban leaders, accusing them of the crime against humanity of gender persecution against women, girls and members of the LGBTQI+ community in Afghanistan since the Taliban seized power in 2021.

I respect the Dutch directness here.

My extremely lukewarm take was that I didn't get that much out of it because a lot of it was commentary on Russian politics that I wasn't familiar with and I was told I was "intellectually incurious" and "barely literate."

I would 100% fight someone in a parking lot. I would not, under any circumstances, call someone 19 times in a row. I am a sensible human being.

A different person in a different book club once sent me a multiple paragraph message and demanded I meet with them one-on-one to resolve our differences over War and Peace.

A fellow book club member once called me 19 times (during a work day, while I was in court) after I disagreed with them about Cormac McCarthy's The Road.