April 2021

 

April 2021

Read:

Fiction:

•  The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton (K)
• What Abigail Did That Summer by Ben Aaronovitch (K)

 

Shorts:

• 10 Steps to a Whole New You by TONYA LIBURD (https://www.fantasy-magazine.com/new/new-fiction/10-steps-to-a-whole-new-you/)
• The Wealth of Dragons by Sean Vivier (DSF)
• Your Favorite Hot Refreshments by C Jones (https://www.spacesquid.com/transformed-flash-fiction/)
• The Meat Grinder by Kelsey Marie Harris (https://www.spacesquid.com/transformed-flash-fiction/)
• https://bethanythemartian.tumblr.com/post/633183446892691456/writing-prompt-s-youre-a-daycare-worker

 

Poetry:

• Because by Grace Schulman (https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2021/apr/12/poem-of-the-week-because-by-grace-schulman)

 

Non-Fiction:

• 'I'm the guy on the edge of the dancefloor just staring' by Sophie Atkinson (https://manchestermill.co.uk/p/jeff-noon-vurt)
• Bane or Blessing? Reviewing Cultural Values of Bats across the Asia-Pacific Region by Mary-Ruth Low et al (https://bioone.org/journals/journal-of-ethnobiology/volume-41/issue-1/0278-0771-41.1.18/Bane-or-Blessing-Reviewing-Cultural-Values-of-Bats-across-the/10.2993/0278-0771-41.1.18.full)
• The Medical System Should Have Been Prepared for Long COVID by Alan Levinovitz (https://www.vice.com/en/article/qjpywp/the-medical-system-should-have-been-prepared-for-long-haul-covid-patients-symptoms)

• post-exertional malaise

• Brain fog: how trauma, uncertainty and isolation have affected our minds and memory by Moya Sarner (https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/apr/14/brain-fog-how-trauma-uncertainty-and-isolation-have-affected-our-minds-and-memory)
• Out of thin air: the mystery of the man who fell from the sky by Sirin Kale (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/apr/15/man-who-fell-from-the-sky-airplane-stowaway-kenya-london)
• Did art peak 30,000 years ago? How cave paintings became my lockdown obsession by Jonathan Jones (https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2021/apr/23/cave-paintings-art-lockdown-obsession-30-000-years-lascaux)
• Labyrinthine tales: We All Hear Stories in the Dark, by Robert Shearman, reviewed by Philip Hensher  (https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/labyrinthine-tales-we-all-hear-stories-in-the-dark-by-robert-shearman-reviewed)

 

Watched/Listened/”Attended”:

• The Long Thread Podcast: Franklyn Habit (https://open.spotify.com/episode/7LY1rKoIxbHCplWeGqiivf?si=CA02FiM9R9O8AzpYrLrxoA)
• Cambridge Drawing Society Spring 2021 Exhibition (http://cambridgedrawingsociety.org)
• The Young ‘Uns on Zoom
• Megson on Facebook
• Studio Thrift - Darning Workshop on Zoom