We are at the half-way point, fellow readers! Here are the July stories, I hope you enjoy them! As always, feel free to publish spoilers in the comments, and if you haven’t read them yet just avoid looking at the comments section until you have \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Moveable Beast, by Maria Dahvana Headley<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Is this title a play on A Moveable Feast, Hemingway’s posthumously published memoir? Which itself seems to reference a phrase written by Albert Camus: “…we’d had a very early lunch, but really lunch was a moveable feast, you had it when you felt like it.” I love that, for some reason. In this case, perhaps the beast is also moveable, and can be conjured whenever we feel like it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The author, Maria Dahvana Headley, is described in Wikipedia as a “memoirist” which I guess is a fancy way of saying someone who writes a memoir.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Flight of the Horse, by Larry Niven<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Larry Niven is best known by me as the author of the Ringworld series. A ringworld is a gigantic ring with a radius of 93 million miles, constructed around a star similar to our sun, resulting in an earth-like world except that it’s 3 million times bigger. But that’s not what we’re reading this month, silly me! The Flight of the Horse was first published in 1969.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
That’s it! Allons-y!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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