Weekend reading roundup

[nanila]

What did you read this weekend? If you planned on anything specifically, did you read it? (Reminder link to intended weekend reading post)

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[nanila]

I was very pleased to have finished off another chunk of Skunk Works, about the U-2 spy plane, which means the next bit is about the SR-71 Blackbird, which is the whole reason I wanted to read this book. EXCITED.

I also managed to read the Nature article about the pits on Comet 67/P and a few other articles in this issue, including one about practical measures to address gender imbalance at professor/lab manager level, which I have pointed my other half at (he's on the Athena SWAN committee at his institution).

[sunflowerinrain]

I read Simenon's "Maigret à la mer", as planned. Good writer, good French (unlike so many writers of romans policiers).

Also read most of http://www.ifs.org.uk/wps/wp1023.pdf ("Child Poverty in the UK since
1998-99: Lessons from the Past Decade"), which was not planned.

And Handel's Dixit Dominus, on which I should have spent more time - much homework needed before the concert!

[nanila]

I skimmed the child poverty paper and it seems somewhat hopeful since child poverty declined in that decade...but then I wonder about how things have changed between 2009 and 2015. :/

[legionseagle]

Intended to read "Travels With My Aunt" and "The Female Detective". Got about a chapter and a half into "Travels with my Aunt". Cover of The Female Detective remains uncracked.

[weaverbird]

Twitter, weaving patterns, bedtime reading: achieved. Beading patterns, no. And I read/bookmarked/closed perhaps a dozen tabs, a small percentage of those needing attention, but hey, any progress is good.