#086

Work

What have I done this week? Looking at the team Trello board, it mostly looks like smaller things which, surely, didn’t take a whole week to do. But I guess we all have weeks like that sometimes.

I’ve taken next week off work so, together with the VE day bank holiday, I’ve got a 10-day break.

The Plague

No news. Does that mean it’s good news?

Miscellaneous

This week I read Assassin’s Apprentice, by Robin Hobb, and started on Neuromancer, by William Gibson. I got through Assassin’s Apprentice in a day, it was a nice straightforward story. I’ll be getting the other Farseer books at some point.

I got some new books too:

• Mimes and The Book of Monelle, by Marcel Schwob
• Mysteries of the Worm, a collection of stories by Robert Bloch
• A graphic novel adaptation of The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath
• Trouble with Lichen, by John Wyndham

I also rewrote bookdb, fixing a few annoyances with the old version and improving the UI for adding and editing books quite a lot.

In my free time next week, I’m planning to finally get around to reviewing a bunch of lists of book recommendations I’ve got bookmarked (including the Fantasy Masterworks and SF Masterworks catalogues).

Link Roundup

• This Week in Rust 337
• The Color of Corruption
• New edition of Mansions of Madness brings the classic collection of haunted house stories back to Call of Cthulhu RPG
• The Origins of Scandinavian Noir
• JSON Parsing from Scratch in Haskell
• How Tesco’s ‘doomsday exercise’ helped it cope with the coronavirus
• Issue 210 :: Haskell Weekly