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In the order I finished them, rather than the order I started:  LHC #274: The Blighted Stars by Megan O'Keefe.  Hard copy. Read it mostly on the plane to and from Vancouver. I liked it more than I thought I would and put book 2 on my list. As usual I have no idea why it was on my list, and I found the characters a bit stock, but the plot moved right along and the science and worldbuilding were cool.  LHC #275: "Wings once cursed and bound" by Piper J. Drake. ebook. I found the writing kind of simplistic maybe? Once again, really predictable characters, and it seemed a little bit like it was introducing a new species of supernatural creature whenever the plot flagged, but whatever.  LHC #276: "The Sparrow" by Mary Doria Russell. Hard copy. After the last book, this one was a delight from page one, though it got quite depressing later on. I can see why it's a classic. I did not find these characters predictable, but maybe that's because I know nothing ab...

That's Willow right there. On the left, the remains of the ball of yarn I used. On the right, the size of ball I started with.  Wind/Water/Salt  Chapters 39-51:   Nothing.  Persephone  (probably not its real name): Nothing.  Short Stories:  Kept working on that thing from the backlog.  Critted  4  Got back  0 Submissions  0  Out there   0   Rejects   0 Knitting Hamilton  (Self). Started the month with the colorwork on the second sleeve just started. Did about 5 rows.  Sulaire  (Alice Starmore). Finished the second sleeve and the neck. This will be completed in May!  Willow  (Joan Ho). Finished the second sleeve and the finishing, which was minimal.  Ruffled sock (self). Started the month with just the ruffle done on the first sock. Finished that and started the second.  Sashiko project:  Nothing.   Ruffle skirt: Nothing . Purple Romper:  Nothing.. ...

Wind/Water/Salt  Chapters 39-51:   Nothing.  Persephone  (probably not its real name): Nothing.  Short Stories:  Kept working on that thing from the backlog.  Critted  5  Got back  2 Submissions  0  Out there   0   Rejects   0 Knitting Hamilton  (Self). Started the month with maybe 20 more rows to be done with that first sleeve. Finished that sleeve, started the next. I've just barely started the colorwork.  Sulaire  (Alice Starmore). Started the month on the first sleeve. Finished that sleeve, started the next. I've just barely started the cap.  Willow  (Joan Ho). Started the month on the first sleeve. Finished that, started the next. I have maybe 9 inches, eight to go?  Ruffled sock  (self). Did the ruffle. I needed something portable for travelling.  The stars continue lining up: I'm on the second sleeve of every project.  Sashiko project:  Nothing.  Ruffl...

 LHC #271: "Chlorine" by Jade Song.  Hard copy. This was fun. Certainly there were off-putting parts but I quite enjoyed it. It was a little stressful at times. I was describing it to Ed, who was a competitive swimmer, and he googled the author and scoffed because she was a college athlete. I mocked him for that.  LHC #272: "An Act of Oblivion" by Robert Harris. Audio book because I needed something to listen to while I worked on some tedious knitting tasks. Historical fiction, which is not my normal genre. This was recommended to me by someone who's read large portions of Wind/Water/Salt, and I would say my puritans are not nearly insufferable enough.  "One Message Remains" by Premee Mohamed. Hard copy. After reading an excerpt on the Chuck Wendig website, I wanted to read the rest (normally I don't read excerpts because then if I read the story later I'm confused, but something sucked me in), so when I saw she was going to talk at the Merril...

LHC #286:  "The Best of R. A. Lafferty".  Hard copy, because there are only two copies in the system and no e-copies, and I don't want the thing to happen anymore where I have books on my list that I never get to read because the one copy in circulation disappears.  Short stories, and as such some worked better for me than others. Stylistically very different than what I'm used to.  LHC #287:  "The Dervish House" by Ian McDonald.  Hard copy for the same reason as above. Challenging, worth the effort. I kept feeling like other things I've read are in conversation with this, and I never knew what the conversation was about until now.  LHC #288:  "My Heart is a Chainsaw" by Stephen Graham Jones. eBook. I was nervous because I haven't seen that many horror movies, but that turned out not to be an issue. There were two characters, Holmes and Hardy, and one scene they were both in where I didn't notice that the second one was there for like s...

  Wind/Water/Salt  Chapters 39-51:   Nothing.  Persephone  (probably not its real name): Nothing.  Short Stories:  Finished a story, posted it on the workshop. Pulled another one out of the backlog.  Critted  4  Got back  3 Submissions  0  Out there   0   Rejects   0 Knitting Hamilton  (Self). Started the month with maybe 30 more rows to be done with that first sleeve. I will always be knitting this sleeve.  Sulaire  (Alice Starmore). Started the month with 10cm done of the front. Finished that, now I'm on the first sleeve.  Willow  (Joan Ho). Started the month almost to the armholes. Finished the back and front, did the shoulders, did the neck, started the first sleeve.  It's like the stars lining up: I'm on the first sleeve of every project.  Sashiko project:  Nothing.  Ruffle skirt:  Nothing.  Purple Romper:  Nothing.