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HOUSTON, June 14 — Manuel Neuer will start in goal for Germany against Curacao in his fifth World Cup, coach Julian Nagelsmann said on Saturday.

“All the players are fit and Manu will start,” Nagelsmann said at his pre-match press conference.

The game Sunday against the World Cup debutants will be the 40-year-old goalkeeper’s first appearance for Germany for nearly two years.

Neuer won the last of his 124 international caps in a Euro 2024 quarter-final defeat by Spain.

Nagelsmann brought him out of international retirement after he helped Bayern win the Bundesliga title and reach the Champions League semi-finals last season.

The 2014 World Cup-winner had to nurse a calf injury in the buildup to the 2026 tournament and played no part in the 4-0 friendly win against Finland and the 2-0 victory against the USA.

Neuer’s inclusion leaves Oliver Baumann, who has largely been Germany’s number one in the last two years, on the bench. — AFP

2024 was confirmed as the hottest year on record in earth. I made this in Inkscape using Filter.

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RIO DE JANEIRO, June 9 — Brazil said yesterday it was temporarily suspending use of the world’s first single-dose dengue vaccine following two suspicious deaths.

More than half a million people have received doses of the vaccine this year, which was developed publicly in Brazil and approved by health authorities in November.

It is the first single-dose inoculation against the mosquito-borne dengue virus, which can cause high fever, headaches, muscle pain, nausea and rashes and in rare cases is fatal.

Of the 501,044 people vaccinated between January and May, 3,703 -- 0.7 percent—showed symptoms similar to dengue.

Forty-two people meanwhile had “more severe reactions,” according to the health ministry.

Authorities have recorded three severe cases, including two that resulted in the deaths of a 58-year-old man and a 48-year-old woman.

A 38-year-old woman entered intensive care but has since been discharged.

“There is not enough data to establish a cause-and-effect link between the vaccine and these three serious cases, but it is a warning signal,” Health Minister Alexandre Padilha told a press conference.

As a precaution, “we have decided to temporarily suspend vaccination,” he added, without elaborating on what would be required for it to be reintroduced.

The minister said the “absolutely unexpected” effects had not been observed during tests on over 16,000 volunteers across 14 Brazilian states.

Those trials had recorded an efficacy rate of 91.6 percent against the most severe form of the disease.

The only other dengue vaccine, TAK-003, requires two doses taken three months apart, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).

A single dose can help speed up and simplify mass vaccination campaigns.

Brazil recorded more than 6,000 dengue deaths in 2024 -- nearly half of recorded deaths worldwide—but the situation improved significantly last year. — AFP

 

 

 

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Turns out I’m two years behind on these so I’m getting ’em up! No commentary because I gotta run out the door to ink more pages of Seacritters, but hopefully I’ll come back to this down the line.

(Previously: 2023 in Reading, 2022 in Reading, 2021 in Reading, 2020 in Reading)

Legend	Rough Guide to Ratings
🎭 – Plays 📝 – Poetry 📖 – Books (Fiction) 📓 – Books (Nonfiction) 💬 – Graphic Novels 🔄 – Reread 🎙️ – Audiobook	❤︎ = Yes ❤︎❤︎ = Oh Yes ❤︎❤︎❤︎ = Oh Hell Yes ❤︎❤︎❤︎❤︎❤︎ = Obviously this one hit at the right place and the right time

1. 📖 The Raven Tower – Ann Leckie
2. 📖 The Night Manager – John Le Carré
3. 💬 / 📓 It’s Lonely at the Centre of the Earth – Zoe Thorogood
4. 📖 Network Effect – Martha Wells
5. 📓 The Beauty in Breaking – Michele Harper
6. 💬 / 📓 The Five Lives of Hilma Af Kilnt – Philipp Deines
7. 📖 The Fermata – Nicholson Baker
8. 📖 Birnam Wood – Eleanor Catton ❤︎❤︎
9. 📖 The Luminaries – Eleanor Catton
10. 🎙️ / 📖 Lightning Rods – Helen DeWitt
11. 📖 Prophet – Sin Blaché & Helen Macdonald ❤︎
12. 📓 Holy the Firm – Annie Dillard ❤︎❤︎
13. 🎙️ / 📖 Making Money – Terry Pratchett
14. 📖 Excession – Ian M. Banks
15. 📓 Your Money or Your Life – Vicki Robin & Joe Dominguez
16. 📓 Subculture Vulture – Moshe Kasher
17. 📖 The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi – Shannon Chakraborty ❤︎
18. 📝 The Peace of Wild Things – Wendell Berry ❤︎❤︎❤︎
19. 📓 The Liars’ Club – Mary Karr ❤︎❤︎
20. 🎙️ / 📖 The Lies of Locke Lamora – Scott Lynch
21. 💬 / 📓 And Now I Spill the Family Secrets – Margaret Kimball
22. 💬 / 📖 Sex Criminals Vols. 1-6 – Matt Fraction & Chip Zdarsky ❤︎❤︎
23. 🎙️ / 📖 Red Seas Under Red Skies – Scott Lynch
24. 📓 Travelers to Unimaginable Lands – Dasha Kiper ❤︎
25. 💬 / 📖 Safari Honeymoon – Jesse Jacobs
26. 📓 What If This Were Enough? – Heather Havrilesky
27. 📖 Oliver VII – Antal Szerb
28. 💬 / 📓 How to Understand Israel in 60 Days or Less – Sarah Glidden
29. 🎙️ / 📖 The Republic of Thieves – Scott Lynch
30. 📝 44 Poems for You – Sarah Ruhl
31. 📓 Wild – Cheryl Strayed
32. 📓 Saving Time – Jenny Odell ❤︎❤︎❤︎❤︎❤︎
33. 🎙️/📖 The Thursday Murder Club – Richard Osman
34. 📓 The Wild Edge of Sorrow – Francis Weller ❤︎❤︎
35. 🎙️ / 📖 Nothing to See Here – Kevin Wilson
36. 🎙️ / 📖 The City of Brass – S.A. Chakraborty
37. 💬 / 📓 The Worst Journey in the World: Vol. 1 – Sarah Airriess, adapted from Apsley Cherry-Garrard ❤︎
38. 📓 Smile: The Story of a Face – Sarah Ruhl ❤︎❤︎
39. 📓 Gender/Fucking – Florence Ashley
40. 💬 / 📖 Pixels of You – Ananth Hirsh, Yuko Ota, J.R. Doyle
41. 📓 Mr. Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonder – Lawrence Weschler / Visitng The Museum of Jurassic Technology IRL ❤︎❤︎❤︎
42. 💬 / 📖 Waverider (Amulet Book 9) – Kazu Kibuishi
43. 📖 Women Talking – Miriam Toews
44. 🎙️ / 📖 The Kingdom of Copper – S.A. Chakraborty
45. 📓 Care: The Highest Stage of Capitalism – Premilla Nadasen ❤︎❤︎
46. 🔄 📓 Steal Like an Artist – Austin Kleon
47. 💬 / 📖 Danger and Other Unknown Risks – Ryan North & Erica Henderson ❤︎❤︎❤︎
48. 💬 / 📖 Lightfall: The Dark Times – Tim Probert
49. 🎙️ / 📖 The Empire of Gold – S. A. Chakraborty
50. 🎙️ / 📖 Night Boat to Tangier – Kevin Barry ❤︎❤︎❤︎
51. 📖 Funny Story – Emily Henry
52. 💬 / 📖 Stargazing – Jen Wang
53. 💬 / 📓 In Limbo – Deb JJ Lee
54. 🎙️ / 📖 The Midnight Library – Matt Haig
55. 📓 Four Thousand Weeks – Oliver Burkeman ❤︎
56. 💬 / 📓 Coma – Zara Slattery
57. 📓 The Long Run: A Creative Inquiry – Stacey D’Erasmo ❤︎❤︎
58. 📓 Mutual Aid – Dean Spade
59. 🎙️ / 📖 The Book of Love – Kelly Link
60. 📖 Red, White, and Royal Blue – Casey McQuiston
61. 🎙️ / 📖 Godkiller – Hannah Kaner
62. 📖 Whoever You Are, Honey – Olivia Gatwood ❤︎
63. 🎙️ / 📖 Sunbringer – Hannah Kaner
64. 🎙️ / 📓 Driven to Distraction – Edward M. Hallowell & John J. Ratey
65. 🎙️ / 📓 A Heart That Works – Rob Delaney ❤︎
66. 📖 Nervous Conditions – Tsitsi Dangarembga
67. 📓 Slouching Towards Bethlehem – Joan Didion ❤︎❤︎

Unfinished but Made Progress

1. The Nature Book – Tom Comitta
2. Annals of the Former World – John McFee
3. The Divine Comedy – Dante
4. Come Together – Emily Nagoski
5. Wildwood – Roger Deakin
6. The Idle Beekeeper – Bill Anderson
7. Bear – Marian Engel
8. This Nonviolent Stuff’ll Get You Killed – Charles E. Cobb Jr.
9. A Month in Siena – Hisham Matar

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Amberley Museum, Spring Bus Event.
April 26th 2026
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