Currently reading: The Deep Places: A Memoir of Illness and Discovery by Ross Douthat 📚
Finished reading: Black Swan Green by David Mitchell 📚There’s a quote on the cover from Pub Weekly saying something like “the best memories of boyhood!” No, that is not what this book is. It’s beautiful with gorgeous characters but it’s a lot about how badly we treat each other.
Our general store made tarts and they made the mincemeat from scratch!
Currently reading: What Could Be Saved: A Novel by Liese O’Halloran Schwarz 📚
Finished reading: The 7 ½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton 📚I don’t know what genre to put this in. Mystery? Fantasy? It’s elegantly crafted and in a way is about writing: what does it mean to be in a character’s head? I liked it.
Weirdly warm, misty afternoon for a long walk
Long covid is destroying careers
Long covid is destroying careers, leaving economic distress in its wake
Good article, but this statement makes it sound way too easy to recover: “Employers and patients need to understand that many long haulers should return to work on a limited, part-time basis, perhaps working from home, while they slowly work on building strength, he said.” In my brother’s experience, there’s no way to “slowly work on building strength.”
I deleted TikTok on my phone. Yay, me! It’s unbelievable what a time suck it had become. “I’m too old for TikTok!” “I won’t spend more than two minutes looking at TikTok!” Yeah, right. The only way to protect myself is to completely remove the temptation.
Currently reading: Black Swan Green by David Mitchell 📚
Finished reading: Akata Warrior by Nnedi Okorafor 📚I enjoyed it just as much as the first one in this series. A teenage “witch” growing up in Nigeria, fighting evil and developing self-awareness.
Currently reading: The 7 ½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton 📚
I forgot my Apple Watch today for the first time in years. So what’s the point of exercising since I won’t get credit for it? 😂
Good podcast about chronic illness in general
Long COVID and the Blind Spots of American Medicine
I basically got nothing done today but I did buy these nifty winter boots. That metal plate is a mini-crampon that can be flipped out when I need more traction here in the land of ice and snow.
Currently reading: The 7 ½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton 📚
Currently reading: Akata Warrior by Nnedi Okorafor 📚
Finished reading: Slade House by David Mitchell 📚Loved it, even though it verges on horror. I had the experience that happens to the characters – losing myself in time while the story/orison was told, but luckily the author didn’t steal my soul, I think.
Finished reading: Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor 📚a fun YA read with great characters
Uh oh. I bought myself one of those Ember mugs that keeps your beverage at the perfect temperature for hours. Now I can drink an entire pot of black tea in the morning. #overcaffeinated
She’s checking to see if possibly this spot will be warm enough for her
@help Bookshelves still broken in web, so I went to Epilogue on iPhone. Wanted to make a post and Epilogue would not let me make a new post
Finished reading: Morningside Heights by Joshua Henkin 📚I could not grasp the point of this novel. Lots and lots of exposition but why?
Chan School event seeks way forward for long COVID patients – Harvard Gazette
Me and my buddy climbed the local mountain on that warm day last week.
