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Wind/Water/Salt  Chapters 29 -50 :  Need to take up comments and revise.  Chapter 51:  Finished and posted.  I really ought to buy myself a reward.  Persephone  (probably not its real name): Continued writing series of infill scenes. This is very non-linear.  Short Stories:  Outlined something I've been writing. Pulled out something I drafted a long time ago because I was reading the news and had thoughts.  Critted  10  Got back   16 (!!  I must owe some crits to someone) Submissions  0  Out there  0  Rejects  1 Knitting Penzance mittens.  Finished.  Ballet Wrap (IK Spring 2005). Finished the damn sash, the back, and the left front.  Finished the sewing on that jumper. Now I just need a grommet setter and anvil and I'm good to go. Oh, and I need to make ties for it.  

LHC#119: "How to listen to Jazz" by Ted Gioia. I guess this came from my self-improvement phase of requests. It was published in 2016, so not that old, but its pre-pandemic publication shows. There's a whole long section where he discusses the concept of virality as if the medical sense would be new to people. Interesting, though.  I might have gone a little too hard on this one. I listened to a ton of jazz while reading it, and discovered a couple of tracks I loved, and some whole subgenres I apparently loathe. Eeew, cool jazz is so not for me.  LHC#120: "The Country Girls Trilogy" by Edna O'Brien. Not sure if this should be one or three, but it's one volume so for here I'll count it as one. In my annual tally of books read (maintained elsewhere) I'll count it as three. Very much worth reading. It's pretty clear why it would have been banned a lot though. Wow.  LHC #121: "The Memento" by Christy Ann Conlin. The voice in this is gr...