August 2021

Read:

Fiction:

The Man on the Balcony (The Martin Beck series, Book 3) by Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö (K)
Tomorrow by Chris Beckett (K)
The Wan by Bo Balder (K)
John Eyre: A Tale of Darkness and Shadow by Mimi Matthews (K)
The Man Who Died by Anntti Tuomainen (K)

Shorts:

Find Soulmates Near You by Emma-Rive A. Nelson (DSF)
Monster under the Bed by Garry McNulty (DSF)
Sometimes They Call Me Human by Victoria L Brun (DSF)
'NOW YOU SEE ME' BY JUSTIN C. KEY (https://gizmodo.com/lightspeed-presents-now-you-see-me-by-justin-c-key-1847424250)
The Surviving Twins by Anastasia Kharlamova (DSF)
Splat Day by Bo Balder (DSF)
My List of Bedtime Bogeyman Blues by SARINA DORIE (https://www.fantasy-magazine.com/new/new-fiction/my-list-of-bedtime-bogeyman-blues/)
Your Attention Please by Karl El-Koura (DSF)
Dinners Like We Used To Have by Kelly Sandoval (DSF)
Babel's End by Jean-Louis Trudel (DSF)

Non-Fiction:

PLANTS IN SCIENCE FICTION: SPECULATIVE VEGETATION, EDITED BY KATHERINE E. BISHOP, DAVID HIGGINS, AND JERRY MÄÄTTÄ BY OCTAVIA CADE (http://strangehorizons.com/non-fiction/plants-in-science-fiction-speculative-vegetation-edited-by-katherine-e-bishop-david-higgins-and-jerry-maata/)
The March of the Karens by Ligaya Mishan (https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/12/t-magazine/white-women-karen.html)
Paul Mason: ‘Modern fascism’s interests are being represented in government by rightwing populists’ by Killian Fox (https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/aug/14/paul-mason-how-to-stop-fascism)
German street names still echo Nazi, Communist, and even Roman past by FRANK JACOBS (https://bigthink.com/strange-maps/german-street-names)
Tim Dowling: the pet food system is broken, and the cat blames me (https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/aug/21/pet-food-system-broken-cat-blames-me-tim-dowling)
‘My persian had a three-hour blow-dry!’ 150 years of cat shows – then and now by Sirin Kale (https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/aug/25/my-persian-had-a-three-hour-blow-dry-150-years-of-cat-shows-then-and-now)
Sally Rooney on the hell of fame: ‘It doesn’t seem to work in any real way for anyone’ by Emma Brockes (https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/aug/28/sally-rooney-hell-of-fame-normal-people)

Watched/Listened/”Attended”:

Between blotch and blok