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LHC #192: "The Sisters of Straygarden Place" by Hayley Chewins. Hard copy. I guess middle grades don't read as many e-books? Not the book for me, maybe. I had trouble keeping track of the characters. The boy and I were talking about Themes a week or two ago, and I couldn't really see one here.  LHC #193: "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda. eBook, also middle grade. Much more to my liking.  LHC #194: "The Mask of Mirrors" by M.A. Carrick. The start was too stressful, I almost abandoned it. That was partly because it's really fat. The constant trying to guess who the rook was seemed silly, and some characters seemed sort of abandoned, but I guess that's what sequels are for. At least I don't have to rush; book 3 comes out next August.   LHC #195: "The Fireman" by Joe Hill.  Audiobook. Started it because I'd run out of podcasts and was doing deploy prep at work. I meant to listen to it while finishing the last 60 ro...

Wind/Water/Salt  Chapters 39-51:  Still n eed to take up comments and revise.  Persephone  (probably not its real name): Worked more on the ending (which despite what I wrote last month wasn't done, just rewritten what I'd written before). The one POV's ending is kind of done-ish, and I had a revelation about the other POV's, which makes the whole story make sense.  Short Stories:  Went through all the comments on the one I put up last month and pulled out another one from the archive. Then the boy challenged me to read the crits on the one I posted recently, so I did, and we talked about the ending, so maybe I'll work on that. Then I was reading twitter which gave me an idea about how to fix another story, which I started to do instead. The point is, lots of plans, no action.  Critted  9  Got back  4  Did I mention I decided to scale back my reviews to two per week to give myself time to actually work on my own projects? I did. Did...