June 2022

Read:

Fiction:

• The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula le Guin (K)
• The Farthest Shore by Ursula le Guin (K)
• Tehanu by Ursula le Guin (K)
• The Other Wind by Ursula le Guin (K)
• How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu (K)
• Case Histories: (Jackson Brodie) by Kate Atkinson (K)

Shorts:

• Memories of Blue by Matt Tighe (DSF)
• Four Pieces of Advice on the Selection of a Familiar by Kelly M Sandoval (DSF)
• THE PIANO MAN •BY JEN EVE TAYLOR (https://everydayfiction.com/the-piano-man-by-jen-eve-taylor/)
• Tales from Earthsea by Ursula le Guin (K)
• “The Word of Unbinding” by Ursula le Guin (K)
• “The Rule of Names” by Ursula le Guin (K)
• “The Daughter of Odren” by Ursula le Guin (K)
• “Firelight” by Ursula le Guin (K)

Poetry:

• Obligations 2 by LAYLI LONG SOLDIER (https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/149976/obligations-2)

Non-Fiction: 

• From Farty Red to Le Cute White, an Algorithm Generates Absurd Color Names by Claire Voon (https://hyperallergic.com/381111/from-farty-red-to-le-cute-white-an-algorithm-generates-absurd-color-names/)
• Lessons From the Golden Age of the Mall Walkers by Alexandra Lange (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2022-06-03/a-history-of-mall-walking)
• Shower in your bra and cook in the kettle? Putting ‘extreme frugality’ to the test by Coco Khan (https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2022/jun/04/shower-in-your-bra-and-cook-in-the-kettle-putting-extreme-frugality-to-the-test)
• The dreams of animals by David M Peña-Guzmán (https://aeon.co/essays/what-do-the-dreams-of-nonhuman-animals-say-about-their-lives)
• The smile: a history by Colin Jones (https://aeon.co/essays/a-history-of-the-smile-through-art-culture-and-etiquette)
• COVID and the Heart: It Spares No One INTERVIEW BY STEPHANIE DESMON  (https://publichealth.jhu.edu/2022/covid-and-the-heart-it-spares-no-one)
• A Description of Earthsea by by Ursula le Guin (K)
• Cocaine, class and me: everyone in this town takes drugs, all the time – they’re part of the civic culture by Tabitha Lasley (https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2022/jun/25/cocaine-class-everyone-in-this-town-takes-drugs-all-the-time)

Watched/Listened/”Attended/Attended”:

• 50 years and counting: a conversation with Professors Wole Soyinka, Kwame Anthony Appiah and Henry Louis Gates Jr. in person at thee Lady Mitchell Hall