Tea!

I ordered three pounds of tea from McNulty's a couple of days ago, as soon as I learned they had reopened, and the box arrived a few minutes ago. I just made cattitude lapsang souchong tea, which is steeping as I type.

Reading Wednesday, such as it is

I'm having another stretch of time when I have trouble focusing on books. I'm looking at a lot of news etc. online, not just because I want to know what's going on with/about covid-19, but because it comes in handy bite-sized pieces. So:

I spent a few weeks slowly rereading Always Coming Home, by Ursula Le Guin, which I find comforting. When I finished that, I started reading Buddy Holly Is Alive and Well on Ganymede, which is indeed weird.

I've been dipping into the short fiction in Jo Walton's New Decameron project; having supported the Patreon, I get the stories in email, and read some of them, depending as much on mood as anything. I enjoyed all of these:

The Wolf Far Hence, by Pamela Dean
Kritzer, Naomi Little Free Library, by Naomi Kritzer
Imperator Noster, by Sonya Taafee
The Prudent Traveller's Guide to Venice (Excerpted), 1872, by Lila Garrott (this was a reread)
Dinosaur, Roc, Peacock, Sparrow, by Ruthanna Emrys
Ruin Marble, by Arkady Martine
On the Island, by Ellen Kushner (excerpts from a work-in-progress sequel to Swordspoint
Elliot, Kate The Task She Had Been Given