{"id":2656,"date":"2022-02-13T16:28:15","date_gmt":"2022-02-14T00:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/digitalmanticore.com\/?p=2656"},"modified":"2022-02-13T16:28:15","modified_gmt":"2022-02-14T00:28:15","slug":"a-week-in-the-life-february-13-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digitalmanticore.com\/?p=2656","title":{"rendered":"A Week in the Life: February 13, 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I was very close to not writing this today because this was another week that passed in a bit of a haze. However, that’s probably all the more reason to write, to differentiate the days and the weeks. I’m still annoyed at work and a little annoyed at my body (vision therapy is vexing me with lots of 3D activities and I’m struggling). Yet, the week wasn’t a total loss.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Consuming<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Here are some things I’ve recently read, watched, or bought.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Books and Other Words<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

This week I read She Who Became the Sun<\/a> by Shelley Parker-Chan and Mother of Invention: How Good Ideas Get Ignored in an Economy Built for Men<\/a> by Katerine Mar\u00e7al. They were both good! She Who Became the Sun is a light-fantasy, historical fiction about a girl in 14th century China. She is disgusted with her supposed fate (“nothing”) and seizes the opportunity to be more. There’s intrigue, army stuff, and lesbians. Mother of Invention is a non-fiction book that was better than I expected. It starts with the history of the wheeled suitcase and describes the resistance to it\u2014rolling one’s suitcase was unmanly, obviously. I thought the rest of the book would be fun\/annoying tales of useful things men resisted, but the book is wide-ranging and thoughtful, taking the reader all the way from the wheeled suitcase to climate change, with stops on disability and witchcraft in between. The only thing I didn’t love about the book is an aspect of the writing style, which probably comes from a journalism perspective, in which the author includes pithy, one-sentences paragraphs every couple pages to drive home a point. I think it’s effective in a shorter work but I found it tiring in this case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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She Who Became the Sun<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Mother of Invention<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, on the internet:<\/p>\n\n\n\n