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I may use used the wrong tag, #WITmonth, but I have some bangers to look forward to!

Placebo, Without You I’m Nothing, Black Market Music.

Do you own a book that you berate yourself for not yet reading every time you see it? Mine is currently: First Mage on the Moon by Cameron Johnston

On fire huh? 😉

Do you have an author you are nervous of reading? Mine is Patrick Ness. I’m tackling that by listening to the audiobook of The Knife of Never Letting Go. And now I have a dog; it seems to be hitting a little harder than when I first tried it.

Can I confess my brain did this, and didn't think, but that's the wrong way around and not in the spirit of the month? Because I'm confessing, that's exactly what it did.

Social Media can't do nuisance. My view on A.I. is not black and white. I saw a comment that LLMs have an inbuilt 'Do you want fries with that?' push. And it's going to be hard for the average non-tech person who wants an easier life to resist the temptation of. Read what Charlie has to say.

D'oh! An easy and obvious #womenintranslation month read is Emily Wilson's translation of Homer's The Odyssey.

Flying under the radar is Lee Young-do's The Heart of the Nhaga (translated by Anton Hur). @abigailnussbaum.bsky.social in commentary directing us to her @locusmag.bsky.social review says this: 'At every turn it is both familiar and extremely strange, in a way that I found quite delightful.'

Reviews: <i>Absence</i> and <i>The Heart of the Nhaga</i> at <i>Locus</i>My June 2026 Locus column had a bit of an informal theme of considering the influence—acknowledged and unacknowledged—on the works under re...wrongquestions.blogspot.com