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"Lent" by Jo Walton. I love her so much. An interesting thing to read right after The Dragon Waiting that's for sure. I knew even less about Savonarola than Richard III but that didn't matter.  LHC #175: "On Translation: Translators on their work and what it means" edited by Esther Allen. Even the essays I really didn't care about, like the one about translating songs from old French, were fascinating. Somehow it hadn't occurred to me that French would have zany old spellings the way English does.  LHC #176: "Wanderers" by Chuck Wendig. I was intimidated by the fatness of this, but it was a very quick read (for something so fat). I guess long doesn't equal difficult? I did find the lack of past perfect tense sort of annoying sometimes. It meant I had to pick through manually and decide what order things happened. also an unnatural number of characters with red hair for no reason. And America seems to be populated only by white supremac

  Wind/Water/Salt Chapters 39-51:  Still n eed to take up comments and revise.  Persephone  (probably not its real name): While lying awake with Covid I had a genius idea for the ending. I'd already had a vague idea of how things end, but this was part of the mechanism that makes it happen, and it's in keeping with the characters' attitudes so I guess it was worth the wait?  Short Stories:  I carried one around for a while but did not look at it.  Critted  7  Got back  0 Submissions  0  Out there  1  Rejects  0 Knitting Striped long-sleeved t-shirt  (self).  Started the month with an inch of the first sleeve. My schedule for the rest of the year's knitting says I had to complete two sleeves this month. This should have been one of them. It was not.  Tay Tartan cardigan  (Martin Storey). Started the month with 9 inches of the first sleeve. According to that above-mentioned schedule, I should have finished this sleeve too. It is also not finished.     Extra Whip socks  (C