Reading Log, August 2021
Everything that I read in August.
A ⌛︎ before a title indicates that I have not finished reading it.
Novels & Short Stories
- Dreadnought by April Daniels
- Death of a Red Heroine by Qiu Xiaolong
- Gaffe chapters 4 &5 by Casey Callich
- ⌛︎ Tales of Nevèryon by Samuel R. Delaney
Light Novels
- The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya vol. 1 by Tanigawa Nagaru
- Do You Love Your Mom and her Two-Hit Mulit-Target Attacks? vol. 1 by Dachima Inaka
- My Friend's Little Sister Has it in for Me vols. 1 &2 by Hendra Boerma
- I'm in Love with the Villainess vol. 2 by Inori
- The Hero is Overpowered but Overly Cautious vol. 1by Tuchihi Light & Toyota Saori
- The Apothecary Diaries vol. 1 by Sasha McGlynn
Comics
- Ai no su e Ochiro! by Higuchi Misao & Minamijuuji Asuna (chapters 2-4)
- Zettai BL ni Naru Sekai vs. Zettai BL ni Naritakunai Otoko by Konkichi (6 chapters)
- Atarashii Joushi wa Dotennen by Dan Ichikawa (13 chapters)
- Blades of Furry by Deya Muniz & Emily Erdos (37 chapters)
- Let's Play by Leeanne M. Krecic (135 chapters)
- Tricked into Becoming the Heroine's Step-Mother by Hariheen & Mokgamgi (8 chapters)
- Not So Shoujo Love Story by Curryuku (51 chapters)
- Comic on having long-COVID as a young person. by @vitariesocks@tumblr.com
- Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Phantom Blood by Araki Hirohiko (44 chapters)
Articles
- ‘You’re the Problem’: When They Spoke Up About Misconduct, They Were Offered Mental Health Services by Alisha Haridasani Gupta and Ruchika Tulshyan (in The New York Times)
- Why Cookbook Stores Are the Antidote We Need Right Now by Jessica Sulima (in Thrillist)
- England's Upper Classes: A Dangerous Cult by Otto English (in Byline Times)
- This Sweet White Flower Is Actually A Sneaky Carnivore, Scientists Discover by Nell Greenfieldboyce (in NPR)
- New Shape Opens ‘Wormhole’ Between Numbers and Geometry by Kevin Hartnett (in Quanta Magazine)
- Life in the Stacks: A Love Letter to Browsing by Jason Guriel (in The Walrus)
- The Case Against Reading Everything by Jason Guriel (in The Walrus)
- Archival Futures: The Archive as a Place and the Place of the Archive by Sarath Pillai (in Los Angeles Review of Books)
- use computers to store data by J.B. Crawford (in Computers are Bad)
- Book of Lamentations by Sam Kriss (reread, in The New Inquiry)
- The Stages of Not Going on T by Daniel M. Lavery (in The New Inquiry)
- An Accumulation of Nameless Energies by Rob Horning (in Real Life Magazine)
- Just a Girl: Being Briseis by anonymous (in Sententiae Antiquae)
- A history of Simlish, the language that defined The Sims by Brennan Kilbane (in The Verge)
- [The Jean-Paul Sartre Cookbook]()https://pvspade.com/Sartre/cookbook.html by Marty Smith (in The Free Agent, 1987)
- The Mulberry as Placemaker + Community Resource by Kirsten Bradley (on Milkwood.net)
- I Became A Pandemic ‘Wine Mom.’ Here’s What I Learned. by Amanda Montei (in the HuffPost)
- Grizzly bear DNA maps onto Indigenous language families by Rachel Fritts (in Science Magazine)
- Rain falls at Greenland ice summit for first time on record by Kate Abnett and Andrea Januta (in Reuters)
- The Inner Life of James Bond by James Parker (in The Atlantic)
- Safety of folk jamming techniques
- A Secret Spreadsheet Shows There Are No Raises In Coffee by Ashley Rodriguez (in Talk Poverty)
- Starbucks workers in New York are organizing to form first US union by Michael Sainato (in The Guardian)
- Giant bird-eating centipedes exist — and they’re surprisingly important for their ecosystem by Luka Halpin, Rohan Clarke, and Roiwan Mott (in The Conversation)
- Radioactivity May Fuel Life Deep Underground and Inside Other Worlds
- Kasagi: Gates Of Hope by Portland Japanese Garden
- In the Dead Archives by Max Abelson (in n+1 Magazine)
- My Disability Is Obvious In Job Interviews. Is That A Bad Thing? by Wendy Lu & Kelly Dawson (in Refinery29)
- Inside the Secretive, Semi-Illicit, High Stakes World of WhatsApp Mango Importing by Ali Akhbar (in Eater)
Misc.
- Higurashi no Koro ni: Minagoroshi-hen (sound novel arc)
- Earthly Delights ꙮdgo Issue 2A (zine)
- Essay On What I Think About Most by Anne Carson (poem)
- *A Field Guide to Roadside Wildflowers at Full Speed by Chris Helzer (on The Prairie Ecologist)
Total: 2 novels; 2 short story chapters; 8 light novels; 1 sound novel arc; 65 manga chapters, 231 webcomic chapters, 1 short comic; 29 articles; 2 zines; 1 poem