Read Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver ★★★★★ 📚
David Copperfield about the opioid problem in Appalachia. I was sucked in by Demon’s voice. Glad I knew a happy ending for at least some characters was expected. I”ll wait a bit but rereading Dickens is on my list for 2024.
Kind: Notes
Read: The Underground Man by Ross Macdonald ★★★★☆ 📚
Two deer–a doe and a fawn–came down the slope in a dry creek channel, heading for the grove. They saw me and rocking-horsed over a fallen log into the trees.
Read: What time is love by Holly Williams ★★★☆☆ 📚
Quite an interesting time travel remix, I did want to find out what happened to the first couple. The second incarnation less compelling.
Pome no more:-( A lovely newsletter shutting down.
Tinyletter, which has hosted Pome since it began in 2014, will itself soon shut down
I now need another source of “Short modern poems“.
iNaturalist a year in review:
I started adding photos to iNaturalist in April this year. Find it a very useful site for identifying flora & fauna. Obviously need to help others in IDing a bit more.
Castro is back, I’ve grabbed my opml I’m the meantime. After a few podcastless commutes I think I need a backup plan/app. CC @jemostrom
I love Castro for podcatching but it has stopped downloading feeds & I can’t export my subs. Is there another podcast app that allows you to triage what you want to listen to & download in the same sort of way? I like to subscribe to a lot of feed but listen to a selection.
Read: Knots and Crosses by Ian Rankin ★★★☆☆ 📚
First Rebus, a darker character than the later series (which I’ve read quite a few in random order). I got the first 3 in a kindle 99p bundle so will read the next couple too, not just yet.
Read: Three Fires by Denise Mina ★★★★☆ 📚
Lightly fictionalised account of Girolamo_Savonarola‘s life in Renaissance Florence. Radical & powerful social reformer, anti-semite & inspirer of bonfires of the vanities.