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Watched: A Haunting in Venice 🍿
I love Poirot, I love Branagh, and I love spooky stuff, so this was a win for me.
Finished reading: The Back of the Universe by Jessixa Bagley 📚
Finished reading: While We’re Here by Anne Wynter 📚
Finished reading: The Muéganos by Jaque Jours 📚
🔖 Read Wake schools restricts parents’ ability to challenge books, citing new state law.
Wake is interpreting recent changes in state law to mean that parents can now only restrict their own children from borrowing specific school library books, not that books must be removed.
Good. Parents can still challenge classroom materials.
🔖 Read How unarmed 911 teams are reshaping public safety in nearly 100 cities.
My city has its share of problems, but I’m really proud of it for developing programs like this. Especially for launching the Stabilization Services division.
Finished reading: A Man And His Cat 1 by Umi Sakurai 📚
This is the most relatable and wholesome manga I’ve ever read.
🔖 Read Seasonal Living Isn’t Just A Wellness Trend — It’s How We Were Designed To Live by Dr. Jaclyn Tolentino (The Good Trade). 🍂
It’s fall according to the light and the temperature is obliging, too. Time for cardigans, sweet potatoes, and days that feel like the golden hour all afternoon.
🔖📚 Read Reading for pleasure - and for better health by Craig Brierley.
Today, in a review published in Psychological Medicine, Professor Sahakian and Dr Langley, together with Vicki Perrin, CEO of The Queen’s Reading Room, argue that it doesn’t matter what or how we read, reading for enjoyment can bring huge benefits – and reading with others, whether it’s as part of a book club or a parent reading with their children, can bring even greater rewards.
No surprises here and not a ton of evidence for causality but correlation isn’t nothing. Saved the original research article to read later.