This is the latest post in a series I started in late 2019, anticipating the twentieth anniversary of my bookblogging which will fall in 2023. Every six-ish days, I’ve been revisiting a month from my recent past, noting work and family developments as well as the books I read in that month. I’ve found it a pleasantly cathartic process, especially in recent circumstances. If you want to look back at previous entries, they are all tagged under bookblog nostalgia.
This was the month I started Instagram, which I don’t spend a lot of time on, but I do enjoy it. My first post:
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I went to London and from there to Montenegro:
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And also to Zürich:
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And Berlin.
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Pleased with this pic of my then colleague C and Captain Europe at an EU Tweetup. Captain Europe has mostly retired from being a superhero now, and C has moved to San Francisco and just had a baby.
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With the massive kerfuffle over the puppies, I read and blogged much less than usual, but still ot through 15 books.
Non-fiction: 4 (YTD 23)
Oak, by William Bryant Logan
Martial Power and Elizabethan Political Culture: Military Men in England and Ireland, 1558-1594, by Rory Rapple
Self-Portrait, by Anneke Wills
Naked by Anneke Wills
Fiction (non-sf): 5 (YTD 18)
The Charterhouse of Parma, by Stendhal
An Infamous Army, by Georgette Heyer
The seven-per-cent solution, by Nicholas Meyer
Sculptor’s Daughter, by Tove Jansson
The Romance of the Three Kingdoms, by Luo Guanzhong
SF (non-Who): 3 (YTD 74)
The Complete Robot, by Isaac Asimov
True History/Ἀληθῆ διηγήματα, by Lucian of Samosata
Yesterday’s Kin, by Nancy Kress
Doctor Who, etc: 3 (YTD 22)
Palace of the Red Sun, by Christopher Bulis
Sometime Never…, by Justin Richards
Deadfall, by Gary Russell
Comics : 0 (YTD 10)
~4,700 pages (YTD 37,450)
5/15 by women (YTD 38/144) – Wills x2, Heyer, Jansson, Kress
1/15 by PoC (YTD 11/144) – Luo
The best of these were Rory Rapple’s gripping treatment of sixteenth century Irish political violence, which you can get here, and Tove Jansson’s semi-autobiographical short story collection, which you can get here.
I was unexcited and somewhat bored by The Romance of the Three Kingdoms, which you can get here (in what may be a better translation).
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