After a rather soggy parkrun and the necessary showering and changing afterwards, I set out to London to see the Secret Maps exhibition at the British Library. Lots of interesting exhibits. But with many things on display that invited you to linger, I don't think the exhibition layout really suited that. People kept getting bunched up at certain points. And I left the exhibition feeling I could have done with more of a narrative, or more obvious themes. There clearly were some, but arranged across the exhibition space in a way that I couldn't follow.

The weather had helpfully cleared up so I walked to the British Museum and braved the crowds to go see the Nordic noir: works on paper from Edvard Munch to Mamma Andersson in the print room. It was really wonderful, plenty of interesting, thought-provoking, and beautiful things to see.

I was thinking of going to browse some books afterwards but I was feeling tired enough not to fancy it, so that and a detour to Scandi Kitchen was enough for today.

Finished since the last reading post
The Instrumentalist, which I liked very much, although the protagonist kept annoying me at times by being so blinkered in her ambition.

Currently reading
Not much progress with The Alignment Problem. Reading Death of a Scholar by Susanna Gregory and have less than 50 pages to go, and I still have no idea how it's going to play out at the end.

Reading next
I have another library book lined up, beyond that I'm not sure

Finished since the last reading post
The Lost Abbot, with a suitably large and confusing number of deaths during Matthew and friends' stay in Peterborough looking for the abbot who seems to have disappeared.

Also finished The End of Innocence. It was good, a mix of personal stories interspersed with the more factual narrative. With it being a book originally published in the mid-1990s and reprinted in 2021, as a reader you have a different point of view than the first readers at the time.

Currently reading
In the middle of The Instrumentalist Harriet Constable, which I'm really enjoying. And have just about made a start on The Alignment Problem by Brian Christian

Reading next
Not sure

After five months and eight appointments, the tooth that started troubling me in June now has its permanent crown. The fitting it today was a bit trickier than I or the dentist had imagined, but we got there in the end. We have a health-related cashback benefit at work so I finally put the paperwork together and submitted a claim. Usually, it's just a question of attaching your receipt and that's it, but with so many appointments and payments made in stages, I ended up putting together an entire document in addition to a scan of the treatment plan and scans of the receipts. Not sure if it works out, and even when it does, it's not going to be anywhere near the entire cost of treatment, with my cover being just at the basic level where I don't pay anything extra.

I think I'm due a normal check-up soon, but perhaps that will be pushed forward with the number of times I've been at the dentist over the past months.