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Wednesday, June 26th, 2024 08:14 pmPhysio says my right leg-- the 'good' one-- is weaker than the left. Might explain the odd achey pains I've been getting in the ankle at night, as well as the feeling of being unbalanced when I walk. OTOH having lost three kilos as of last Friday I can now walk up the stairs again step-step-step, provided it's neither hot or muggy. Which it sort of has been these last three days: rain and temps hovering near 27/ 80.
What I've read is, I think, a single Evelyn Ferrars mystery. Last week's heat conduced only to doom scrolling on the tablet. What I *am* reading, however, is:
Couch read: Elusive
Backpack read: Pyramids
Tablet read: Death on the Tiber, last of the Flavia Albias, slow gojng because gangsters
Periodic read until I fantod myself: Hidden and Visible Realms, Early Medieval Chinese Tales of the Supernatural and Fantastic
-- if Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio is cozy in its domesticity, these stories are... not. Supposedly strongly Buddhistically inflected, so far there seem to be an awful lot of local deities with capricious whims making life difficult for guys they take a fancy to. Not like that: they want the guys to marry their daughters and unleash tigers on them if they say no.
A little of this goes a long way, and it's a library book. Might almost be worth buying except it's $70 for the kindle alone, and lord knows how they handle the footnotes. Of course the footnotes mostly tell you the modern names of the various places mentioned, which I can't look up on the tablet because the damn thing wants me to use google maps. Twelve dollars more would get me the hardback but I'm supposed to be downsizing my library, not adding to it. Shall continue with all deliberate speed. But I wish I'd made a note of which entry in which FFL I found the mention of it.
What I've read is, I think, a single Evelyn Ferrars mystery. Last week's heat conduced only to doom scrolling on the tablet. What I *am* reading, however, is:
Couch read: Elusive
Backpack read: Pyramids
Tablet read: Death on the Tiber, last of the Flavia Albias, slow gojng because gangsters
Periodic read until I fantod myself: Hidden and Visible Realms, Early Medieval Chinese Tales of the Supernatural and Fantastic
-- if Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio is cozy in its domesticity, these stories are... not. Supposedly strongly Buddhistically inflected, so far there seem to be an awful lot of local deities with capricious whims making life difficult for guys they take a fancy to. Not like that: they want the guys to marry their daughters and unleash tigers on them if they say no.
A little of this goes a long way, and it's a library book. Might almost be worth buying except it's $70 for the kindle alone, and lord knows how they handle the footnotes. Of course the footnotes mostly tell you the modern names of the various places mentioned, which I can't look up on the tablet because the damn thing wants me to use google maps. Twelve dollars more would get me the hardback but I'm supposed to be downsizing my library, not adding to it. Shall continue with all deliberate speed. But I wish I'd made a note of which entry in which FFL I found the mention of it.
