Favourites of July 2026

The summer holiday is halfway. I somehow managed to read eight books in the past three to four months—including cheating by resurrecting a previously discarded book and by diagonally scanning a creativity-related book to find out if there was anything I wasn’t yet aware of. I was quite frustrated by my inability to consume words through physical pages for the last year due to parenting; this is another small win for me. I took the eldest to the city centre and of course we ended up in the bookshop where I bought Blaise Pascal’s biography by Graham Tomlin in a whim. I consider that another win: I once started his Pensées but it didn’t yet click. My gut told me to grab that book. I am glad my gut is still intact. Lifts up shirt. The real one as well, thankfully. Previous month: June 2026. Games I’ve played June was a really good month video game-wise. July wasn’t: cero cero cinco. I did try my hand at Void Stranger and got to room eighty-ish but the summer holidays invite outside play…