This is an index and summary of the things I’ve talked about over the last month. Links for multi-post subjects go to the first post, you can follow the internal navigation links from there.
Books
Fiction
“Bitten” Kelley Armstrong. Part of Read All the Fiction, urban fantasy with werewolves. Taken to charity shop.
“Gridlinked” Neal Asher. Part of Read All the Fiction, space opera with cyberpunk flavour. Kept.
“Before The Golden Age 1” ed. Isaac Asimov. Part of Read All the Fiction, short stories from 1931& 1932 plus autobiography of Asimov from birth (1920) to 1932. Boxed up.
“Ran Away” Barbara Hambly. Historical mystery set in 1820s Paris & 1830s New Orleans, one of the Benjamin January series. Library book.
“The Desert of Souls” Howard Andrew Jones. Arabian Nights-esque fantasy set in 8th Century Baghdad, with overtones of Sherlock Holmes. Library book.
Total: 5
Non-Fiction
“China: The World’s Oldest Civilisation Revealed” John Makeham. Part of Chapter-by-Chapter, an overview of the sweep of Chinese history from the Paleolithic through to the death of the last Emperor in the 20th Century.
Total: 1
Museums
Thread of Silk and Gold. An exhibition of Meiji era Japanese textiles at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.
Total: 1
Photos
Total: 1
Radio
The Borgias. In Our Time episode about the Borgia family in Renaissance Italy.
Shahnameh of Ferdowsi. In Our Time episode about the epic Persian poem the Shahnameh.
The Upanishads. In Our Time episode about one of the groups of sacred texts of the Hindu religion.
Total: 3
Television
Non-Fiction
Lost Kingdoms of South America. The history & archaeology of four cultures in South America.
Prehistoric Autopsy. What we know about the lives & looks of 3 ancestors of modern Homo sapiens.
Wartime Farm. What life was like for farmers during World War II, part re-enactment.
Total: 3