I skipped the previous couple of months “Tell Us What You Are Reading” Zoom events hosted by my public library, which I had done a lot of reading. No surprise there. There are too many titles to list and did not bother sharing everything that I read. The titles I do share are some hightlights.

• This is a How To Lose the Time War — read for another Sci-Fi/Fantasy Book Club

• If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler and his Six Memos for the Next Millennium — both read as part of a backstory to an ARG in tandem with a television series that dramatized my experience with a cult in San Francisco

• The Phantom Tollbooth — re-read, of course, when found at a Little Free Library 

• Anarchy, State, & Utopia by Robert Nozick — although I am a Libertarian, have a degree in Philosophy, and have met the guy when he gave a talk at Berkeley, I never read this bible of modern-day libertarian movement

• Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

Television show highlights

• second season of “Love, Victor"

• second season of “Special"

• Japan series “Alice in Borderland” based upon the manga

• “Lovebirds"

• my perennial summer addiction of watching “Big Brother” (US) started during which time, unlike most people who read during the summer, I stop during the summer and watch “Big Brother” almost exclusively

• Carl Sagan’s Contact was a recent book club read so I decieded to re-watch the 1996 cinematic adaptation starring Jodi Forster

• upcoming is Apple’s ( producers?) of Asimov’s Foundation

• Thanks to a teen’s vlog comparing the serial adaptation to the novel, I am going to read and watch The Mysterious Benedict Society