We didn’t talk enough about Long COVID on social media
Long COVID is sidelining millions of workers from their jobs : NPR
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Currently reading: A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine 📚
Currently reading: Bonita Avenue by Peter Buwalda 📚thanks to @ton for the recommendation at a Reader’s Republic meetup.
Finished reading: Light From Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki 📚I loved this novel. Sorta SciFi, sorta Fantasy, but all great. A fun summer read with plenty of characters who are uncommon stars.
In August, I’m going to do a NaNoWriMo prep suggested by Stefon Mears. He says
“Write 250 words of new, unrelated fiction. Every day.”
Excerpt From The 30-Day Novel and Beyond!: A training program for aspiring novelists Stefon Mears This material may be protected by copyright.
Finished reading: A Desolation Called Peace (Teixcalaan Book 2) by Arkady Martine 📚Fantastic world building but somehow it just doesn’t all hang together with a bit too much Deus ex Machina. However, it’s good enough that I want to read the first in the series, A Memory Called Empire, which garnered so much praise.
Currently reading: Light From Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki 📚
In other news, the local peaches I purchased last Wednesday are telling me “we’ll be ripe tomorrow!” I am very into peach management in the summer. If all goes well, we will have ripe peaches to eat every day from now until September.
Finished reading: Whirlybird Island by Ernest Hebert 📚Worth reading for Hebert fans, which I am.
Finished reading: Embrace Fearlessly the Burning World: Essays by Barry Lopez 📚A beautiful book with a useful perspective on nature and living a good life. It saddens me to know that his home burned in a wildfire. Remembering Barry Lopez, McKenzie River and Finn Rock resident
Currently reading: A Desolation Called Peace (Teixcalaan Book 2) by Arkady Martine 📚I haven’t read the first one A Memory Called Empire but so far it seems fine to begin with Book 2. Book 1 has been hard to get from my Library.
Watched Episode 1 of Obi-wan Kenobi and quite enjoyed it. Partly because I did have questions about this period of time in the Star Wars chronology, when Luke and Leia were children.📺
Finished reading: The Story of a New Name (Neapolitan Novels Book 2) by Elena Ferrante 📚oh my, these novels are SO GOOD. They are searing and painful and contain topics I hate (abuse, misogyny) but the world is so real and the characters so well drawn. I am in awe of the writing.
Currently reading: Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay by Elena Ferrante 📚
Currently reading: Embrace Fearlessly the Burning World: Essays by Barry Lopez 📚
Currently reading: Whirlybird Island by Ernest Hebert 📚
I have been using DevonThink as my RSS feed manager and reader for over a year and am very happy with this solution. I have one database in DT dedicated to RSS feeds. DT has built-in support for adding a feed by URL. An unexpected benefit is posts showing up in my DT searches.
Finished reading: Himalayan Dhaba by Craig Joseph Danner 📚Not recommended unless you’re one of those people who love it when emergency room doctors start telling graphic stories.
Finished reading: Learning from the Germans by Susan Neiman 📚Quite a good book about what Germany has done to “work off” its Nazi crimes, and what the US could do to work off its slavery crimes.
Finished reading: Building a StoryBrand by Donald Miller 📚a useful marketing book. So many in this genre are useless.
Finished reading: Frankie’s Place by Jim Sterba 📚I liked this more than I expected. Well-off white people enjoying their boring summers in Maine in the 1990s. With recipes.