Consumption 14

This is a monthly series, published near the end of the month summarizing what I found, ate, watched, googled, and felt this month. New categories added from time to time.

Books Added to My TBR (e.g., books I just learned about that I’m excited to read… maybe)

• Witch Trial (Harriet Tyce)
• This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me (Ilona Andrews)
• Hollywood, Ending (John Green)
• A Killer in the Family (Amin Ahmad)
• Dear Monica Lewinsky (Julia Langbein)
• Mom Brain (Nicole Hackett)
• Five (Ilona Bannister)
• London Falling (Patrick Radden Keefe)
• Big Little Truths (Liane Moriarty)
• The Ruling Class (Jennifer Lynn Barnes)
• Porcupines (Fran Fabriczki)
• Do You See What I See? (Peter Swanson)
• The Castle (Jon Ronson)
• Hopeless Romantics (Mhairi McFarlane)

Notable Meals (new recipes, old favorites, and restaurant items we ate this month)

• Matzo ball ramen (for Pesach): My matzo ball soup with curly rice ramen noodles, tofu, corn, ginger, nori, greens. It was so good.
• Salad of figs, candied pecans, butter lettuce, and burrata with a maple balsamic vinaigrette.

Television, Movies, and Music (watching and listening)

• Still working our way through the Richard Ayoade seasons of Travel Man. I love this show so much.

Added To My Ongoing Mix Tape

• “Love American Style” (The Cowsills)
• “Bill is Dead” (The Fall)
• “I Won’t Let You Go” (Robbie Boyd Band) – I bought this whole album many years ago, and it doesn’t seem to be on sale anymore plus the music video for the song has been removed from YouTube. Strange. I think it’s one of their best songs.

Tabs I Left Open (things I Googled and left up on the screen)

• The President’s Heads
• The V&A page for Hirsch Kutchinsky’s jewelry
• A recipe for vegan smørrebrød
• A Gizmodo article featuring the fictional life story of Christopher Plover, a character in Lev Grossman’s Magicians series.
• Rothy’s website with the page for the ReVelvet Cruiser Mary Jane
• National Theatre homepage and the listing for Summerfolk

Micro-Joys

• Finding out that Carla Hall has a vegetarian “chicken” option at her new restaurant Bumblebirds made out of oyster mushrooms.

Mood

• Rushed. I don’t wish there were more hours in the day, but I wish there were more days in the week.

What about you? Let me know what you’re eating, seeing, listening to, googling, feeling this month.