August 2021

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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”:

• Dinner @ friends—indoors!
• Guests here—indoors! And a stayover.