pedanther

Fiction books
Peter O'Donnell. Modesty Blaise (re-read)
Alexander Solzhenitsyn, tr. Michael Guybon. The First Circle

In progress
Tanith Lee. The Silver Metal Lover
Helen Simonson. Major Pettigrew's Last Stand (e)

Abandoned
Gene Brewer. K-PAX
Randall Garrett. Takeoff Too

Picture books
Chris Van Allsburg. Jumanji (e)

Non-fiction books
Isaac Asimov. A Choice of Catastrophes
Kyle Baker. How to Draw Stupid

In progress
Yuval Noah Harari. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (e)

( short, screen, and stage )
( books bought and borrowed )

Top of the to-read pile
Ursula K Le Guin. The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas (e)

I've been experimenting with my journal entries in the last week or two, ( Read more... )

We had a family get-together for the public holiday, ( Read more... )

The board game club had another of their long public holiday sessions ( Read more... )

I had a doctor's appointment this week: a routine thing, not because anything was wrong with me. ( The next bit involves injections )

I don't think I've mentioned in one of these posts that I've started reading Solzhenitsyn: ( Read more... )

( Movies current - Ocean - and upcoming - including ) Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein. The latter had the tagline "Only monsters play god", which is staking out a position in the "'Frankenstein' is not the name of the monster" discourse that I respect.


I finished playing through The Beekeeper's Picnic. ( Read more... )

I got to Parkrun only slightly late this week: ( Read more... )

I've had several experiences this week where I was reading someone's description of their experiences with ADHD and thinking that it sounded worryingly familiar. ( Read more... )

I was yesterday years old when I learned that "Womble" is an actual real surname that actual people really have. (Apparently, it's derived from the Yorkshire town of Wombwell.) The context was somebody mentioning a law firm called Womble Bond Dickinson; the relevant founding partner was apparently called B. S. Womble, which is one of the most made-up-sounding real names I've encountered in recent memory. (His full name was "Bunyan Snipes Womble", which sounds like a law firm all by itself.)