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Made an autumn veg soup today from this recipe
https://www.recipetineats.com/country-harvest-root-vegetable-soup/.

Added the water too early but otherwise is good and filling and doesn't use stock, so the sodium levels are what I want them to be.

Also did some minor housekeeping like vacuuming side bedroom and swiftering the kitchen floor. Some day I'll do major stuff like vacuuming the whole downstairs but not today.

Got House of Many Ways when I went to pick up Cinder House and read it in a sitting. Since I've only read it once in the annus horribilis 2011, I had no memory of it at all. But then had to reread Castle in the Air and, being the lazy lump I am, got the ebook from the library instead of going upstairs and rooting about among my dusty shelves. I may have read that one twice but of course, as with all DWJ books, I remember nothing of it. Ten pages from the end my tablet ran out of charge so I had to finish it in paper. And it doesn't read at all well in print. Weird. But also, the who is who, or who is what, unentangling at the end is, if possible, worse than Howl's Moving Castle. I may have to make a memorandum of that for next time.

Though I'm beginning to worry about how reading these days feels like dreaming: once finished it's done, leaving little in the memory. If you asked me what I read this year I could probably name the detective story authors, but anything else? I know I read Terra Nostra and Inventing the Renaissance because both are big books, but forgot that I'd read the equally weighty JS&MN; knew I'd read Emma and Persuasion but not Northanger Abbey and Sense and Sensibility; totally forgot rereading the last five (six?) Rivers of London and all the Paarfi. Maybe I should go back to making lists.

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Housework is eeevil. We're about to have some more work done on the house, so we were getting ready to move furniture away from the windows. And also the Mr. rolled up the bedroom rug, so it can go to be cleaned. And I came face to face with the dust situation under the king-sized bed.

Ah, dust elephants. Know them indeed.

Oh yeah, if I don't keep some kind of list of books I read, they tend to float out of my head -- and I'm better about it now, but it's much harder for me to remember details from ebooks. (I'm one of those people who can see the words on the page when I remember a physical book, so endless scrolling and NO PAGINATION wig me right out.) Rereading as much as I do tends to kind of blur things too. But I got fed up with book bingos and people reading to make quotas and the Goodreads gamification of it all. But I should at least make a private list for myself if nothing else....

I used to keep monthly lists in my lj and maybe should go back to that. Seeing it from time to time keeps things fresh in the failing memory.

I keep a list of books I've read, books I've listened to and also the books we've listened to together. Otherwise I'd forget what I've read and end up borrowing audiobooks we've already heard.

Re remembering the stories, I'm currently re-listening to the Rivers of London series which I have a) read as they came out and b) listened to as audiobooks last year and yet there are still things that happen that I don't remember.

I have that problem with Rivers as well. Takes several readings before things stick. Aaronovitch has too many balls in the air to keep track of them all.