![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
highlyeccentricCurrently Reading: I have, somewhat surprisingly, worked my way back into reading some things. Still no progress on contemporary fiction: non-fiction or medieval stuff only.
Fiction: One Night In Boukos still on hold
Non-Fiction For Personal Interest: The Queer Child, but not much progress
Lit Mag: I've got back into the summer Meanjin, that's where most of my non-work reading energy has gone.
Work: Still on 'Literary Spinoffs'; and I've started reading the Canterbury Tales again from go to woah, which is providing a nice combo of chewing gum for the brain without any significant surprises. Can't deal with surprises right now, or any of the ways that fiction tricks you into having feelings.
Recently Finished: Lol nope. Unless you count a re-browse through Smitten Kitchen Everyday.
Up Next: As usual, only everything.
Online essays of note:
Gabrielle Chan (Meanjin), Losing the farm.
Richard Anderson (Meanjin), Sacred Cow. Like the above, on small-medium size farm industries in australia, and commercial and climate challenges thereto.
Fay Bound Alberty (History Extra), The Invention of Loneliness: in case you would like some history of emotions to go with your isolation.
Nandini Pandey (Eilodon), Classics in a time of quarantine. Good content, SUPERB subtitle, "Romans stay home".
Hannah McCann (BinaryThis blog), Time in the heart of corona. I feel like there's more to this that I can't grasp, and lack the complex theoretical approaches to temporality to fill in myself (I'm fairly sure McCann could do this in high theory language, and perhaps she will eventually). It's about about how time moves differently across the crisis: today's case rate is two week's ago's infection rate; different locations are submerged to different degrees.
Frank Bonjiorno (Conversation AU), How Australia's response to the Spanish flu of 1919 sounds warnings on dealing with Coronavirus. I don't know about you, but for a while there I was diverting my anxiety by seeking HISTORICAL CONTEXT (consequently, I am stubbornly not reading that wildly popular essay 'When history has no lessons').
Irina Dmitriescu (TLS), How To Write Well: Rules, Style and the 'well-made sentence'.
Michael Sun (Kill Your Darlings), Queer Cinema's Love Affair with the Dancefloor.
Campbell Rhodes (MOAD/OPH blog), Don't come the raw prawn with me: recounts the story of the 'Night of the Long Prawns', a key turning point in the Whitlam prime ministership that I did not know about.
Catherine Baker (Prospect Magazine), Who designed these uniforms, Tom of Finland?: On the aesthetic of the Spanish Legion.
What are you reading in shutdown, folks? Anyone else finding it nigh impossible?
Fiction: One Night In Boukos still on hold
Non-Fiction For Personal Interest: The Queer Child, but not much progress
Lit Mag: I've got back into the summer Meanjin, that's where most of my non-work reading energy has gone.
Work: Still on 'Literary Spinoffs'; and I've started reading the Canterbury Tales again from go to woah, which is providing a nice combo of chewing gum for the brain without any significant surprises. Can't deal with surprises right now, or any of the ways that fiction tricks you into having feelings.
Recently Finished: Lol nope. Unless you count a re-browse through Smitten Kitchen Everyday.
Up Next: As usual, only everything.
Online essays of note:
What are you reading in shutdown, folks? Anyone else finding it nigh impossible?
no subject
Date: 2020-04-04 07:45 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-04-05 08:09 am (UTC)