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LHC #201: "The Lover: A Sufi mystery" by Laury Silvers. In the acknowledgements, Murat Coskun! And I thought, the drummer? What's he doing here? The writing wasn't very elegant. Too much sufi, not enough mystery, like the plot is a distribution mechanism for the research. And the dialog seemed kind of modern. "The Essex Serpent" by Sarah Perry. I got this for Christmas, and I'd finished a hardcover from the library and had three more on the way but they hadn't arrived yet, so I picked this up to read on the bus one evening, and I was totally hooked. No supernatural to speak of, though I often expected it to veer into Lovecraft, but great just the same.  LHC #202: "The invisible life of Addie Larue" by VE Schwab. Hard copy because the eBook had like a 16-week wait (!). As this book moved up my hold list, I was growing increasingly ambivalent to it. The boy's book club read this in the fall, and they had some issues. I remember the boy sa

Wind/Water/Salt  Chapters 39-51:   Still n eed to take up comments and revise.  Persephone  (probably not its real name): More words Short Stories:  Read one, decided the ending was crap, rewrote the ending (after thinking to myself, "What bad thing could happen to start the third act, rather than having everyone get together and do exactly what's expected of them?").  Critted  6  Got back  0 but also posted nothing.  Submissions  0  Out there  1  Rejects  0 Knitting Tay Tartan cardigan  (Martin Storey). Started the month with about 20 rows to go on the upper sleeves. Finished these and knitted through to the shoulders, bound off and cut the steeks. This is not a nicely graded pattern.  Cathar  (self). Started month with 3/4 of the body edging done. Didn't progress. Thinking about starting again with smaller needles.  Lotus  (Norah Gaughan). Started month with 4 inches of back. Finished the back, and both fronts, and the sleeves, so there's just the seaming and t