Currently reading: The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles 📚
Currently reading: Version Control by Dexter Palmer 📚
Finished reading: Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr 📚what a perfect novel. I loved everything about it, especially the way it’s an ode to libraries.
Finished reading: The Invisible Kingdom by Meghan O’Rourke 📚a good book for people with chronic illness and those who love them.
Biden announces long covid strategy as experts push for more
Big thank you to the Readers Republic crew. We had a fascinating get-together in Zoom yesterday.
Quit reading: The Paper Palace: A Novel by Miranda Cowley Heller 📚Reading about over-privileged white people behaving badly does not appeal to me. Child sexual abuse.
How long covid is accelerating a revolution in medical research
The lake ice has melted! On the one hand, yay Spring 🌸. On the other hand, it’s weeks early 🙃.
Currently reading: Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr 📚
Currently reading: The Invisible Kingdom by Meghan O’Rourke 📚
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