Thursday, 24 April 2025

very random music enjoying while not juggling three different summit agendas and work

  • Tom Waits - "Hold On"
  • Bad Omens, Poppy - "V.A.N."
  • Roger Whittaker - "I Don't Believe In If Anymore"
  • Madelline - "Crazy Bitch" - dance joy
  • the Scratch - "Another Round" (drinking song)
  • Emily Haines & The Soft Skeleton - "Doctor Blind" - piano, late evening sad song
  • First Aid Kit - "My Silver Lining"


("very random" being "songs I marked as 'like'")

Tuesday, 22 April 2025

Eliza Clark - "She's Always Hungry"

Good stories about hunger.  Very different in style.  Not everything amazing, but captivating enough.

Story done purely in online reviews ("Chitaly")



Some body horror - "Hollow Bones", longer one

Min's neck gave out. and by the time she'd pulled her head back up, blood had been drawn, and was spattered across the corridor.
    She was beginning to think she'd be late for the keynote speech after all. She looked up at the ceiling and lifted her wounded hand. She pulled off her little finger, and dropped it into her mouth - easy as ripping off a hangnail.
    The skin of that finger was so thin, it fell apart like stewed meat and slide down her throat just as easily, gristle collapsing with a press of her tongue, and the bone crumbling between her teeth. She swallowed.
    Fen had grabbed the doctor by their scalp - she saw them flex their claws, and drive them into Nook's skull. There was a crunch. Fen squeezed, and Nook went limp.
    So did Min. Dark again.



Monday, 21 April 2025

Katherine Arden - "The warm hands of ghosts"

Amazing magic realism about world war 1, a Canadian nurse who tries to find her brother Freddie; Freddie has been caught under a capsized pillbox with a German, Winter.

There's Faland, the devil of sorts, asking for stories that you will forget.

Amazing book.

Mickey 17

Boy gets reprinted on a space ship bound for a cold planet with a crazy politician who wants to starts a new "pure" empire.

Bit random, overall.  Not bad, but not amazing either.