November 2022

Read:

Fiction:

Holes by Louis Sachar (reread)
Last Bus to Woodstock by Colin Dexter (reread)
Last Seen Wearing by Colin Dexter (reread)
The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn by Colin Dexter (reread)
Service of all the Dead by Colin Dexter (reread)

Shorts:

Speaking for Those With Obsidian Tongues by Wendy Nikel (DSF)
Gosfond by E.E. Rhodes (https://sites.google.com/view/sundial-magazine/flash/gosfond)
LINGERING by YVONNE ELIOT (https://everydayfiction.com/lingering-by-yvonne-eliot/)
Apples by Daniel M. Cojocaru (DSF)
First Dates and Other Action Items by Jenn Reese (DSF)
EXTINCTION by TYGAN SHELTON (https://everydayfiction.com/extinction-by-tygan-shelton/)
160, A VOID ~ THE SMALL CAT OF BEING MISUNDERSTOOD by Seanan McGuire & Lee Moyer (https://smallgodseries.tumblr.com/post/701572502112157696/image-description-an-inky-cat-almost-a)
Optimized Childhood by Victoria L Brun (DSF)

Non-Fiction:

The Pong Imperative: Driving Dishbrain to Suicide by Peter Watts (https://www.rifters.com/crawl/?p=10307)
Digital Bonsai: Hands-Free Storytelling by Joe Baxter-Webb (https://thanetwriters.com/essay/technicalities/digital-bonsai-hands-free-storytelling/)
When Everything Happened So Much Why Weird Twitter died and why—especially now—we need it back by DAN SINKER (https://slate.com/technology/2022/11/weird-twitter-elon-musk-dril-darth-horseebooks-mayor-emmanuel.html)
My Sad, Lonely, Expensive Adventures in Zuckerberg’s V.R. by FARHAD MANJOO (https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/04/opinion/facebook-meta-zuckerberg-virtual-reality.html?unlocked_article_code=r2XlurDPdGugnQ3W7tyVjIALIMZ-bWgQrkhgda0Bwfu6tUmfwlHxprUi84pGLj00mj8GDL0hVGU_5SbvWD1uSeM9BKMVQgU1k9rd_hiFZzMopYp15dMpt2f6URq0Z6Jo-s4IuVg1pOA5O4mTN8rzA6971sHSSkiDUoyP-pjAgcnfRATZio5N_IBCSPU9vkbEy_A-SYz8ClnDLQTYKW85O0RQNKCey63uzJUCUZ4DX1n0ogN0TWqLbYHYiTw5a7O6TIiktG565L4iGFRpLr_9bRVXnYgMKPS2lR3f1T0V986Ppm3qmPP46-ElAlYJWk8rJQYuaVopMKpNpBV4AUz5ZBSmSFXhqHBBxfiTaJewntYkqA&smid=tw-share)
Here’s how a Twitter engineer says it will break in the coming weeks by Chris Stokel-Walker (https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/11/08/1062886/heres-how-a-twitter-engineer-says-it-will-break-in-the-coming-weeks/) reminds me of Greatest Journal’s demise
A Guy Who Already Got Booted From Twitter for Impersonating Elon Musk Explains Himself by NITISH PAHWA (https://slate.com/technology/2022/11/elon-musk-twitter-impersonators-suspended-manu-saadia-trekonomics.html)

Swampy on tunnels, bailiffs and 25 years of protest: ‘We need to stop capitalists destroying the planet’ by Patrick Barkham (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/dec/08/swampy-dan-hooper-tunnels-bailiffs-protest-capitalists-human-mole)
INTERVIEW: STUART SEMPLE ON PANTONE, FREETONE, COLOUR, AND OPEN SOURCE by Jenny List (https://hackaday.com/2022/11/16/interview-stuart-semple-on-pantone-freetone-colour-and-open-source/)
‘They want toys to get their children into Harvard’: have we been getting playthings all wrong? by Alex Blasdel (https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2022/nov/24/have-toys-got-too-brainy-how-playthings-became-teaching-aids-young-children)
Lost city of Atlantis rises again to fuel a dangerous myth by Robin McKie (https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/nov/27/atlantis-lost-civilisation-fake-news-netflix-ancient-apocalypse)
The Singing Detective: The Triumph of the Invented Self by Roger Keen (https://the-mad-artist.medium.com/the-singing-detective-the-triumph-of-the-invented-self-98f36ec695eb)
What happened to the cockney riviera? The botched regeneration of brutalist utopia Thamesmead by Oliver Wainwright (https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/nov/30/cockney-riviera-botched-regeneration-brutalist-utopia-thamesmead)
Why Is Screwtape Called Screwtape? by Adam Roberts (https://medium.com/adams-notebook/why-is-screwtape-called-screwtape-13ba552f5bdb)

Poetry:

The Werewolf and the Fox Spirit Are Neighbors by AMY JOHNSON (https://www.fantasy-magazine.com/fm/poetry/the-werewolf-and-the-fox-spirit-are-neighbors/)
Jabberwock Replies by Adam Roberts (https://medium.com/adams-notebook/jabberwock-replies-c9eaa3c2ee67)
Used Book by Julie Kane (https://twitter.com/Joseph_Fasano_/status/1596488996804526080/photo/1)

Watched/Listened/”Attended”/Attended:

The Secret of Kells

*may have instantly become one of my favourite films*