December 2022

Read:

Fiction:

•  The Dead of Jericho by Colin Dexter (reread)
• The Riddle of the Third Mile by Colin Dexter (reread)
• The Secret of Annexe 3 by Colin Dexter (reread)

 Shorts:

• Homecoming by Frances Brindle (https://crowcrosskeys.com/2022/12/03/homecoming-frances-brindle/)
• Fruits by James Cannice (https://wordpress.com/read/feeds/108931782/posts/4430334044)
• The Many Dimensions of You by A.K. Blake (DSF)
• Parebul of the Mother, Asked in Moonlight by VICTOR FORNA (https://www.fantasy-magazine.com/fm/fiction/parebul-of-the-mother-asked-in-moonlight/)
• God of Inconsequential Things by Sheila Massie (DSF)
• A Win For Time Poor People Everywhere by Tim Hawken (DSF)
• Cold Hands by Shannon Fay (DSF)
• Juana the Mad by Tessa Hadley (https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/dec/18/juana-the-mad-a-short-story-by-tessa-hadley)
• Note to a Hypoxic Delusion by K. Lynn Harrison (DSF)
• I, CTHULHU, OR, WHAT’S A TENTACLE-FACED THING LIKE ME DOING IN A SUNKEN CITY LIKE THIS (LATITUDE 47° 9’ S, Longitude 126° 43’ W) by Neil Gaiman (https://www.tor.com/?p=626090) (reread)
• Dragon Rising by S.E. Gilbey (DSF)

 Non-Fiction:

•  The Great Purpling by Adam Rogers (https://www.businessinsider.com/led-city-streetlights-turning-purple-broken-tech-danger-2022-11?r=US&IR=T)
• Becoming a chatbot: my life as a real estate AI’s human backup by Laura Preston (https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/dec/13/becoming-a-chatbot-my-life-as-a-real-estate-ais-human-backup)
• London’s lost mega-motorway: the eight-lane ring road that would have destroyed much of the city by Peter Walker (https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/dec/13/londons-lost-mega-motorway-the-eight-lane-ring-road-that-would-have-destroyed-much-of-the-city)
• ‘Why can’t anyone make a decision?’ My first time as a D&D Dungeon Master by Keith Stuart (https://www.theguardian.com/games/2022/dec/13/first-time-as-a-d-and-d-dungeon-master-dungeons-and-dragons)
• I am not always very attached to being alive by Anna Borges (https://theoutline.com/post/7267/living-with-passive-suicidal-ideation)
• A Eulogy for P-22, A Mountain Lion Who Changed the World by Beth Pratt (https://www.nwf.org/Latest-News/Press-Releases/2022/12-17-22-Eulogy-P-22)
• The value of owning more books than you can read by Kevin Dickinson (https://bigthink.com/neuropsych/do-i-own-too-many-books/)
• Quitting is underrated by Tim Harford (https://timharford.com/2022/12/quitting-is-underrated/)
• Islam and the Case Against Cultural Amnesia by Michael Bonner (https://newlinesmag.com/essays/islam-and-the-case-against-cultural-amnesia/)
• New Year greetings of President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy (https://www.president.gov.ua/en/news/novorichne-privitannya-prezidenta-ukrayini-volodimira-zelens-80197)

 Poetry:

• “Motto” by Langston Hughes (https://allpoetry.com/poem/8495523-Motto-by-Langston-Hughes)

 

Watched/Listened/”Attended”/Attended:

• Jeff (https://www.shortoftheweek.com/2022/12/01/jeff/)

• Jeff might have to be added to my very short list of favourite robots.

• In Search of Britain's Oldest Pubs with Dr James Wright (online)

 

And a heap of read tabs from earlier in the year, to be closed now:

• My former tutorial partner is now Prime Minister. Here’s my advice to her by TimbHarford (https://timharford.com/2022/09/my-former-tutorial-partner-is-now-prime-minister-heres-my-advice-to-her/)
• I’m an expert in crowd behaviour – don’t be fooled that everyone queueing in London is mourning the Queen by Stephen Reicher (https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/sep/15/crowd-behaviour-london-mourning-queen)
• Of course Britain will pay its respects to the Queen, but why must poor people pay the price by Owen Jones (https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/sep/16/britain-respects-queen-poor-privileged)
• Carbuncles and King Charles: was the royal family’s meddling supertroll right about architecture? by Oliver Wainwright (https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2022/sep/28/carbuncles-king-charles-iii-royal-familys-supertroll-architecture)
• King Charles Has Some Very Strange Ideas About How Cities Should Look by OWEN HATHERLEY (https://jacobin.com/2022/09/king-charles-architecture-cities-poundbury-krier-conservative)
• The week the wheels came off the Brexit Britain bus by Chris Grey (https://chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2022/09/the-week-wheels-came-off-brexit-britain.html)
• ‘It’s so alien, I’ve never heard anything like it’: folk collective Heilung on recording the world’s oldest song by Matt Mills (https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/aug/18/its-so-alien-ive-never-heard-anything-like-it-folk-collective-heilung-on-recording-the-worlds-oldest-song)
•