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  LHC #156: "How to Murder your Life" by Cat Marnell. eBook. It sat at 'available in approximately 4 weeks' for weeks, and then suddenly appeared. The voice was annoying to start but I liked the ending.  LHC #157: "The Perfect Assassin" by K.A. Doore. I'd been assuming this was available on overdrive, but apparently that was a different book with the same name. What's up with that? It was a fun read.  LHC #158: "Last Song Before Night" by Ilana C. Myer. Same as #156, this just showed up all of a sudden. It was okay, I guess. The ending felt a bit rushed to me, the last four chapters especially, where there was a ton of recursive "they had done this while offscreen" recapping.  "A Spindle Splintered" by Alix E. Harrow. Fun, quick read. I read it because Marissa Lingen just read the sequel, and her recommendations are pretty reliable.  LHC #159: "Michael Clayton, the shooting script" by Tony Gilroy. Of course...

Wind/Water/Salt Chapters 31-37: Took up comments.     Someone (a reviewer worried about the marketability of my tone) called it "cozy horror" which I found funny because I don't think of it as horror. Folk horror maybe, though I gather that phrase is overused.    Various people have pointed out the amount of walking that happens in these chapters. Have I mentioned I'm very fond of walking? The above picture is from a morning walk. We were having a blizzard. Four TTC buses were stuck on my street. The first ones left about twelve hours later; the last was there at least forty-eight hours.  Chapters 38-51:  Still n eed to take up comments and revise.  Persephone  (probably not its real name): Wrote a ton more progressing from where I had realized the why that things happened that I wrote about last month. I found a process whereby one day I write a dialog spine and then the next day come back and flesh out that spine and progress forward with new di...

  Too bad I didn't put a book on the floor there, so I could pretend I was reading, just hanging out. Next month!  LHC #153: "All of us with wings" by Michelle Ruiz Keil. eBook. Stressful read! It took me until Chapter 21 to realize that the chapter titles were songs. The problem was, a lot of the songs were longer than the chapters, which hurt momentum. I didn't understand what kind of governess Xochi could possibly be, as she spent basically no time with Pallas.  LHC #154: "Viral Modernism: the influenza pandemic and interwar literature" by Elizabeth Outka. I put a hold on this back in April of 2020, when pandemics were still new and interesting. It answered the question I wanted to know, which was how we forgot the 1918-1919 flu pandemic. Though this book made the flu seem even more horrifying than I'd thought.  "Wizard of the pigeons" by Megan Lindholm. I need to read things that aren't LHC sometimes! I got this for Christmas (because...