December 2021

 

December 2021

Read:

Fiction:

• The Strangers in the House by Georges Simenon (K)
• Rendevous with Rama by Arthur C Clarke (K)
• A Starbound Solstice by Juliet Kemp (K)
• Chocolat by Joanne Harris (K)

Shorts:

• Last Text by Ephiny Gale (DSF)
• THE TINDER BOX by Kate Elliott (https://www.tor.com/2021/12/01/the-tinder-box-kate-elliott/)
• Cons of Time Travel by A. Rector (DSF)
• Fairy Tale by Adam-Troy Castro (https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/fairy-tale/)
• The Station of the Twelfth by Chaz Brenchley (https://www.tor.com/2021/09/08/the-station-of-the-twelfth-chaz-brenchley/)
• MATCHED by BOB DEROSA (https://everydayfiction.com/matched-by-bob-derosa/)
• Winter Peterson Breaks the Wall by Jonathan Helland (DSF)
• Sometime Called Parchment by J. Comer (DSF)
• Leaf Piles by Nina Kiriki Hoffman (DSF)
• Anti-Quarantine by Jeffrey Lyons (DSF)
• DEAR COMRADES by J.D. HARLOCK (https://everydayfiction.com/dear-comrades-by-jd-harlock/)
• Folkway by Eric Brown (DSF)
• Vincentka vs garbage water by Helen Oyeyemi (https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/dec/19/vincentka-vs-garbage-water-an-original-short-story-by-helen-oyeyemi)
• All The Difference by David M. Barry (DSF)
• Curses, foiled again by Anonymous (https://archiveofourown.org/works/35733463/chapters/89102761)

Poetry:

• The Song Thrush and the Mountain Ash by Simon Armitage (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlnlotoguX8)
•  WHICH WITCH BY WENDY PURCELL (https://www.fairytalemagazine.com/2021/12/which-witch-by-wendy-purcell.html)
• Battle of Maldon tr. Adam Roberts (https://medium.com/adams-notebook/battle-of-maldon-2e8db1361f01)
• In Passing by Lisel Mueller (https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/154099/in-passing)
• An Arbitrary Light Bulb by Ian Duhig (https://poems.poetrysociety.org.uk/poems/an-arbitrary-light-bulb/)

Non-Fiction:

• CITY SPACES, PACE BIAS, AND THE PRODUCTION OF DISABILITY by QUILL R KUKLA (https://blog.oup.com/2021/12/city-spaces-pace-bias-and-the-production-of-disability/)
• A 975-day nightmare: how the Home Office forced a British citizen into destitution abroad by Amelia Gentleman (https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/dec/02/home-office-forced-british-citizen-into-destitution-abroad-windrush-compensation-scheme)
• Domino Theory by George Monbiot (https://www.monbiot.com/2021/11/19/domino-theory/)
• The Body, Otherwise by Angela Rehbein (https://the-rambling.com/2021/09/17/issue12-rehbein/)
•  Investing in Lego more lucrative than gold, study suggests by Mark Sweney (https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/dec/10/investing-in-lego-more-lucrative-than-gold-study-suggests)
• Alaska’s Absent Snowy Owls by Kylie Mohr (https://hakaimagazine.com/features/alaskas-absent-snowy-owls/)
• TURNS OUT THE MUCH-MALIGNED MYSTERIES OF UDOLPHO IS GOOD, ACTUALLY! by Elizabeth Heritage (https://www.tor.com/2021/12/14/turns-out-the-much-maligned-mysteries-of-udolpho-is-good-actually/)
• Don’t call it sleaze, call it corruption – why scandal haunts Boris Johnson’s government by Jonathan Freedland (https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/dec/16/dont-call-it-sleaze-call-it-corruption-why-scandal-haunts-boris-johnsons-government)
• Robots, Slaves and Orphans by Adam Roberts (https://medium.com/adams-notebook/robots-slaves-and-orphans-156c77abe4e3)
• From apanthropy to zwodder, Susie Dent’s A-Z of Christmas (https://inews.co.uk/opinion/apanthropy-zwodder-susie-dents-a-z-christmas-1367064)
• THE SNARE OF THE TREE, AND OTHER PERILOUS SEDUCTIONS: Essays on Dangers in Game Design (Occult Scraps Book 2) by Alexis Kennedy (K)

Watched/Listened/”Attended”:

• Female Masculinities and the Gender Wars, Finn Mackay in Conversation with Cheryl Morgan (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MU7LMddDbYc)
• How to stop languishing and start finding flow with Adam Grant (TED talk) (https://www.ted.com/talks/adam_grant_how_to_stop_languishing_and_start_finding_flow?utm_source=t.co&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social&utm_content=2021-12-09-onesheet#t-946821)
• Megson’s Yuletide Carol Show (online)
• Advent Carol Service live from Clare College Chapel (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cacR2rEEBCo)
• Solstice at Newgrange (https://www.gov.ie/en/news/ce616-winter-solstice-at-newgrange-2021/#)