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Fiction books
Steven Carroll. Death of a Foreign Gentleman
Uri Orlev, tr. Hillel Halkin. The Island on Bird Street
Mordecai Richler. Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang
Tom Scioli. Godzilla's Monsterpiece Theatre (e)
Arthur Upfield. The New Shoe (e)
Naoki Urasawa, tr. John Werry. Asadora! volume 1
Naoki Urasawa, tr. John Werry. Asadora! volume 2
Jules Verne, tr. FP Walter. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas (e)

In progress
Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit (e)

In hiatus
Cory Doctorow. Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (e)
William Morris. The Well at the World's End (e)
Julian Rathbone. The Last English King
Helen Simonson. Major Pettigrew's Last Stand (e)

Picture books
Juliette MacIver, Sarah Davis. The Grizzled Grist Does Not Exist! (e)
Juliette MacIver, Sarah Davis. That's Not a Hippopotamus! (e)
Eve Sutton, Lynley Dodd. My Cat Likes to Hide in Boxes (e) (re-read)

Non-fiction books
Yuval Noah Harari. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (e)
Richard Fidler. Ghost Empire

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

Top of the to-read pile
Jules Verne, tr. George Towle. Around the World in Eighty Days (e)
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I haven't been watching the just-finished season of Doctor Who, and I was rather put out this morning to be told, by someone who assumed I'd already seen it, how the season finale ends )

In more cheerful TV news, the current season of Taskmaster is very, very good.


At board game club, we played Risk Legacy and Century: Golem Edition )

Computer games: Battletech, The Beekeeper's Picnic, Mark of the Ninja )

Reading challenges )

Podcast: The Hidden Almanac )

I overslept and missed Parkrun )

I've discovered a new word for the list of Words I'd Only Ever Seen Written Down And Was Pronouncing Wrong All This Time. This one is a character name: Methos, a recurring character from the 1990s TV series Highlander. I've been reading about him sporadically for decades, but I've never actually seen an episode with him in, and when I went looking for Youtube clips of Peter Wingfield performances a few days ago I discovered that I've been mentally pronouncing the E wrong: I always figured the first syllable of his name rhymed with "death", but it turns out it rhymes with "teeth".

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