November 2021

 

November 2021

Read:

Fiction:

• The Relentless Moon by Mary Robinette Kowal (K)

Shorts:

• Real Enough by Nina Kiriki Hoffman (DSF)
• Evaluation of Alternate Nutrition Sources for Persons Affected by Vampirism by pervocracy (https://archiveofourown.org/works/34747540)
• The Mirror Merchant's Tales by Daniel Ausema (DSF)
• The Candy Shop by T.R. Frazier (DSF)
• THE PRINCESS IN THE TOWER by A. R. HANSEN (https://everydayfiction.com/the-princess-in-the-tower-by-ar-hansen/)
•  A Little Dog Like You by Rosemary Sutcliff (https://sutcliff-space.dreamwidth.org/29354.html#cutid1)
• How to identify a robot by Carla Ra (DSF)
• The house of untold stories : 50 unexpected tales by Peter Chiykowski
• Date and Time by Susan Taitel (DSF)
• Shouty Lads by CHARLES EP MURPHY (https://www.fantasy-magazine.com/fm/fiction/shouty-lads/)
• The Stranger by David Paul Rogers (DSF)
• PERFECT SON by CHERYL POWELL (https://everydayfiction.com/perfect-son-by-cheryl-powell/)
• A Patchwork of Puddles by Lynden Wade (https://www.fairytalemagazine.com/2021/11/a-patchwork-of-puddles-by-lynden-wade.html)
• A note on dating conventions by Daniel James Woodhouse (DSF)
• The Brink of Disaster by William Shaw (DSF)

 

Poetry:

•  “To the Rain” by Ursula le Guin (https://twitter.com/coopesdetat/status/1458904378497122321)
• “On Passing the New Menin Gate” by Siegfried Sassoon (https://twitter.com/MarcDavenant/status/1459819031922360321)

 

Non-Fiction:

• Didgeridoo playing as alternative treatment for obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome: randomised controlled trial by Puhan, Suarez, Lo Cascio, Zahn, Heitz, Braendli (  (https://www.bmj.com/content/332/7536/266)
• Mustn't Grumble: The surprising science of everyday ailments and why we’re always a bit ill by Graham Lawton (K)
• Two Thoughts on Eucatastrophe by Adam Roberts (https://medium.com/adams-notebook/two-thoughts-on-eucatastrophe-e2fc62f97a3c)
• How two BBC journalists risked their jobs to reveal the truth about Jimmy Savile by Poppy Sebag-Montefiore (https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/nov/02/jimmy-savile-bbc-journalists-risked-jobs-reveal-truth)
• ‘No one knew they existed’: wild heirs of lost British honeybee found at Blenheim by Donna Ferguson (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/nov/07/no-one-knew-they-existed-wild-heirs-of-lost-british-honeybee-found-at-blenheim?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other)
• Team discovers evidence of prehistoric human activity in Falkland Islands by University of Maine (https://phys.org/news/2021-10-team-evidence-prehistoric-human-falkland.html)
• How can I make myself more motivated? by New Scientist (https://www.newscientist.com/question/can-make-motivated/)
• What lies beneath: the secrets of France’s top serial killer expert by Scott Sayare (https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/nov/09/secrets-of-top-serial-killer-expert-france-stephane-bourgoin)
• Sustainable gin and family-sized crisps! My week eating a climatarian diet by Emma Beddington (https://www.theguardian.com/food/2021/nov/10/fig-rolls-out-seaweed-in-my-week-eating-a-climatarian-diet)
• Shortage nation: why the UK is braced for a grim Christmas by Tim Harford (https://timharford.com/2021/11/shortage-nation-why-the-uk-is-braced-for-a-grim-christmas/)
• Samantha Willis was a beloved young pregnant mother. Did bad vaccine advice cost her her life? by Sirin Kale (https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/nov/23/samantha-willis-was-a-beloved-young-pregnant-mother-did-bad-vaccine-advice-cost-her-her-life)
• Inside story: the first pandemic novels have arrived, but are we ready for them? by Lara Feigel (https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/nov/27/inside-story-the-first-pandemic-novels-have-arrived-but-are-we-ready-for-them)
• Love and Limerence: The Forgotten Psychologist Dorothy Tennov’s Revelatory Research into the Confusions of Bonding by MARIA POPOVA (https://www.themarginalian.org/2021/11/25/love-and-limerence-dorothy-tennov/)
• The Novel That Riveted France During Lockdown Arrives in the U.S. by Roger Cohen (https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/23/books/anomaly-herve-le-tellier.html?smid=tw-share)

 

Watched/Listened/”Attended”:

• Blazing Worlds: Climate Adaptation and the Imagination (RHUL, online)
• Burnaby Concert (in person)