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Fiction: Still reading "Executive Orders", Tom Clancy. Collateral damage increasing, must be in the endgame.
Non-fiction: Finished "Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat", Samin Nosrat and have even tried out a couple of the recipes (and did a variation on one following the principles from earlier in the book, which worked!). I liked this a lot.
Hidden Meanings: 6.16.1-7.3.8 - moving on to motifs auspicious for longevity, many of which so far overlap with the motifs for blessings in general from chapter 1 (bats, for instance).
Listening
Podcasts: ep 4.5-4.14 of History of India - primarily the story of the Emperor Harsha (early 7th Century CE), about whose life & times there are a couple of pretty detailed sources so there's a lot to discuss.
Sunday podcast: ep 1-2 of Living With the Gods - the BBC Radio 4 podcast to go with the British Museum exhibition. So far much better than the exhibition, which I was underwhelmed by.
Music: While running I listened to the rest of "100 Hits Rock", a compilation called "This is BBC Radio 6 Music", The Cure's Greatest Hits and Porcupine Tree's "In Absentia" ... I also drowned out something J was watching on TV with Belly's "Slow Dust" (EP), "Sweet Ride: The Best of Belly" and "Star".
Watching
ep 5 of The Vietnam War - I'm finding it difficult to come up brief descriptions of this, yet more of the toll the war was taking on both the Vietnamese and the soldiers fighting.
ep 3 of Thailand: Earth's Tropical Paradise - continued pretty & full of woo to the end of the series.
ep 2 of Nigel Slater's Middle East - this week Nigel Slater enthused about Turkey and Turkish food, tho to be fair this time there was also a more critical look at how the life many of the rural people lead is very hard.
ep 1 of Art, Power & Passion - Andrew Graham-Dixon tracing the history of the Royal Collection, starting with Henry VIII and Charles I. Ties in with exhibitions at the Royal Academy and the Queen's Gallery at the moment.
Hugh Masekela: Welcome to South Africa - re-shown as he's died recently, a concert plus some biographical chat. As billed on the BBC website I was expecting more chat and less music so what we got was a disappointment (the concert was orchestral versions of his music and I think would've worked a lot better if you'd known the originals).
ep 1 of Hits, Hype & Hustle - three part series about the behind the scenes of the music business, this week was an agent talking about the A&R process and how the job's changed over the decades.
Julius Caesar Revealed - bio of Caesar by Mary Beard, full of topical references. Could also be described as being about dictators, populism and power, using Julius Caesar as an illustration. I liked it.
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