2019 fantasy anthology, on the theme of female characters who solve their own problems rather than waiting for a man to do it for them.
This Meetup-based boardgames group had what turned out to be its last meeting for the moment at the Marlow Donkey.
2019 SF/mystery; sixty-first (roughly, or 50th novel, hence presumably the title) of J. D. Robb's In Death series (SF police procedurals). Someone beloved by everyone who knew him is killed by a cunning gas bomb.
I’ve been doing the Perl Weekly Challenges. The latest involved a lot of nested loops.
1961 mystery, second in the series about Chief Inspector Henry Tibbett. Tibbett and his wife join some friends for a week of sailing in Essex. But the accidental drowning a few months ago starts to look less so, especially when it's followed by another.
So we finally got something like precautions being applied, though piecemeal and rather later than would have been sensible.
2018 non-fiction, a layperson's introduction to the way in which algorithms are allowed to affect life. (Another Book of the Week condensation.)
I've been playing RPGs over Google Hangouts for a while but I don't like it. Here's how to do it with free software instead.
2007 police procedural mystery/horror, fifth in the Bryant and May series. With the team split up by chance and weather, they most solve two separate cases.
Some trailers I've seen recently, and my thoughts on them. (Links are to youtube. Opinions are thoroughly personal. Calibration: Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.)