Currently reading: Jena 1800 by Peter Neumann 📚
Currently reading: Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel 📚
Thinking about quitting : The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles 📚I don’t like the characters. Should I keep going?
Finished reading: Version Control by Dexter Palmer 📚can’t say I liked it. Interesting ideas about time travel but ugly takes on race and gender, the maternal instinct, and who is worth saving.
Finished reading: The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber 📚a monster of a book but worth reading as it posits an alternative history that isn’t all about so-called great men and inevitable predatory capitalism.
Long COVID | She went to one doctor, then another and another
Currently reading: Fixing Your Scrum by Ryan Ripley 📚
Finished reading: Software Estimation Without Guessing by George Dinwiddie 📚so good!
Following first unmasked concert, chorus members share cautionary tale | 30 COVID cases
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.