July 2024

July 2024

Read:

Fiction:

• Skyward Inn by Aliya Whiteley (K)
• Snow Fall by Jørn Lier Horst (K)

Shorts:

• In the Moon’s House by MARY ROBINETTE KOWAL (https://reactormag.com/in-the-moons-house-mary-robinette-kowal/)

Non-fiction:

•  Painting and Sculpture: a Speculative Cultural History by Adam Roberts (https://medium.com/adams-notebook/painting-and-sculpture-a-speculative-cultural-history-b8cb8258bd7c)
• ‘It comes for your very soul’: how Alzheimer’s undid my dazzling, creative wife in her 40s by Michael Aylwin (https://www.theguardian.com/news/article/2024/jul/09/how-alzheimers-undid-my-dazzling-creative-wife-in-her-40s)
• Revolution in the air: how laughing gas changed the world by Mark Miodownik (https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/jul/04/revolution-in-the-air-how-laughing-gas-changed-the-world)
• The Dead-Eyed Rich by George Monbiot (https://www.monbiot.com/2024/07/25/the-dead-eyed-rich/)
• My family and other Nazis by Martin Pollack (https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jul/23/my-family-and-other-nazis)
• Simple Weave: Weave without a large loom by Kerstin Neumuller
• Agile Manifesto co-author blasts failure rates report, talks up 'reimagining' project by Richard Speed (https://www.theregister.com/2024/07/16/jon_kern/)

Poetry:

•  “Fixed Shadow, Moving Water by Carl Phillips” (https://readalittlepoetry.com/2024/07/05/fixed-shadow-moving-water-by-carl-phillips/)
• “Against Entropy” by John M. Ford (https://reactormag.com/sonnet-against-entropy/) reread of a favourite

Visited:

• Addenbrookes (chemo 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
•  Audley End