July 2021

Read:

Fiction:

• Roseanna (The Martin Beck series, Book 1) by Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö (K)
• The Man Who Went Up in Smoke (The Martin Beck series, Book 2) by Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö (K)
• Bryant & May – London Bridge is Falling Down by Christopher Fowler (K)
• Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh (K)

 

Shorts:

• TAYLORMADE: OF ETSY & THE ELVES, BY HEATHER TALTY (https://www.fairytalemagazine.com/2021/07/throwback-thursday-taylormade-of-etsy.html)
•  ALUMINUM FOIL & PLASTIC WRAP BY STEVEN M.S GODON (https://everydayfiction.com/aluminum-foil-and-plastic-wrap-by-steven-ms-godon/)
• EGUNC BY MARY K. CURRAN  (https://everydayfiction.com/egunc-by-mary-k-curran/)
• RUMPELSTILTSKIN, VEGAS STYLE, BY ROBERT ALLEN LUPTON (https://www.fairytalemagazine.com/2021/07/throwback-thursday-rumpelstiltskin.html)
• Three Truths and Three Lies About Jack by Andrea Eberly (DSF)
• Time Machines by Melissa Mead (DSF)
• When You Came Back by Lynette Mejia (DSF)
• Ten Years In by Thea Boodhoo (DSF)
• Lamplighted by David Gianatasio (DSF)
• A Garden of Snakes and Stone by K. Shefferd (DSF)
• THE STORY THIEF  by GLORIA GARFUNKEL (https://everydayfiction.com/the-story-thief-by-gloria-garfunkel/)
• Halfers by Chris Hobson (DSF)

Non-Fiction:

• The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper by Hallie Rubenhold (K)
• HOW TO MAKE THE WORLD ADD UP by Tim Harford (K)
• Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans by Melanie Mitchell (K)
• The hidden world of cats: what our feline friends are doing when we’re not looking by Sirin Kale (https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/jul/22/hidden-world-cats-what-feline-friends-doing-when-were-not-looking)
• 12 Bytes by Jeanette Winterson review – how we got here and where we might go next by Laura Spinney (https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/jul/23/12-bytes-by-jeanette-winterson-review-how-we-got-here-and-where-we-might-go-next)
• To mask or not to mask? That shouldn’t be the question by John Harris (https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jul/26/mask-question-covid-society-british-state)
• ‘A lesson in loss, humility and absurdity’: how rhythmic gymnastics took over my childhood by Rebecca Liu (https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2021/jul/27/loss-humility-absurdity-how-rhythmic-gymnastics-took-over-my-childhood)
•  Statue wars, pandemic reopening, and the art of less by Tim Harford (https://timharford.com/2021/07/statue-wars-pandemic-reopening-and-the-art-of-less/)

 

Watched/Listened/”Attended”:

• Shape: The hidden geometry of absolutely everything with Jordan Ellenberg (organised by The Royal Institution)