Robynettely

LHC #17: “Bitter Seeds” by Ian Tregellis. I’m back at the top of my library list working my way down, so I have no recollection of why I requested this. IT has quite the way with making his characters suffer, so much that I thought to myself about 200 pages in, “is this grimdark?” and then googled to find that, more or less, yes. The ending was such that I had to request the next in the series.  LHC #18: “Urban Forests: a natural history of trees in the American Cityscape” by Jilll Jonnes. Starting this book, I was hoping it would talk about endothermic reactions. This is not that book. It’s more of a society pages of American trees. The organizational structure took a while to grok, but eventually I settled in.  Sometimes this seemed like an endless list of names I didn’t know. At the same time, the sections about the civic response to epidemics was really enlightening. As was the way the different levels of government and the different NGOs dealt with things and ...

Words That huge pile of notes: Just gets bigger. WWS Chapter 12: I had started this in August actually. I think I’m getting better at looking at these things and seeing what’s really wrong – that there’s no character motivation driving the action etc, figuring what’s the point of the scene, rather than just copy-editing it to death and deleting things without putting anything meaningful in. Oh, and fight scenes are hard. Beyond the Yorkdale Event Horizon: Flash, just to entertain myself. Accomplishments “Wind/Water/Salt”. Posted Chapter 11. Connecting Critted 6 Got back 4 Subs Same one is still out there… Knitting Celtic Gang Girls of the 70’s (Rowan and me). Started the month with the front and collar and finishing to do. Did half the front. I’m behind schedule now,   but I think I don’t care.   FI Corset belt. Started the month with 1.5 inches done. Ignored. Socks. Finished the third and fourth. Started the ...