Currently reading: The Paper Palace: A Novel by Miranda Cowley Heller 📚
Quit reading: Feral Creatures by Kira Jane Buxton 📚At about the mid-point, I realized that I hated this book. It’s both pointless and didactic. Moreover, the story is told using 10,000 “and then this happened” transitions.
How covid brain fog may overlap with ‘chemo brain’ and Alzheimer’s
Finished reading: Great Circle: A novel by Maggie Shipstead 📚It’s an interesting story but I didn’t love it. Rape, child abuse, generational trauma.
Brain fog a reality for some post-COVID patients – Harvard Gazette
Currently reading: Feral Creatures by Kira Jane Buxton 📚
Long covid could change the way researchers study chronic illness No Paywall Washington Post
Finished reading: Bewilderment: A Novel by Richard Powers 📚a sad story, I feel as though the author dashed this one off when he was really mad at that crazy, orange president.
I live on a dirt road. We have “mud season” when the ice in the road melts and the road surface temporarily turns to quicksand. It’s supposed to be 70ºF (21C) today, thus I may not be able to drive all the way home! But it’s a sure sign of spring so we’re happy.
Finished reading: Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman 📚Hmm, I didn’t love it the way others here have. I think I’m tired of non-fiction books that consist of a lot of quotes and ideas from other people that the author strings together.
It’s Spring Break for me as a teacher this week. I have plans to get caught up and even ahead on some things. Stay tuned.
The immunology and immunopathology of COVID-19 Science 10 March 2022
“There’s room between yes and no.” Words to live by from @manton
Watching the recorded micro.blog state of the union. Lots of good news and I so appreciate this platform.
Currently reading: Bewilderment: A Novel by Richard Powers 📚
Covid long-haulers face grueling fights for disability benefits
Terrifying
SARS-CoV-2 is associated with changes in brain structure in UK Biobank | Nature
reduction in grey matter thickness and … greater reduction in global brain size.
Currently reading: The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber 📚
Finished reading: Utopia Avenue by David Mitchell 📚And I’ve now finished all of the David Mitchell novels that I can find, Boom! What a fun way to spend the winter. He rewards you for reading everything. Utopia Avenue isn’t the best of them, but it was fine.
Virginia Senator Kaine introduces bill to research and combat long covid, after suffering it himself
What is long covid? Current understanding about risks, symptoms and recovery Washington Post No Paywall Link, this is by an author that my Long COVID brother respects.
I’m three months into being all in on Apple Fitness+. I love it. I do a 30-minute workout of some type nearly every day. The trainers are great and the workouts pack a lot into a short amount of time.
Future of AR, I think, you’ll be able to watch any of the three trainers.
Currently reading: Great Circle: A novel by Maggie Shipstead 📚
Finished reading: Record of a Spaceborn Few by Becky Chambers 📚A fun read and a nice break for some of the heavier books on my currently reading list.
Beautifully illustrated, informative article about Long COVID. It gets my brother’s seal of approval (he’s had Long COVID for nearly two years).