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LHC #204: "The once and future witches" by Alix E Harrow.  Hard copy because the eBook had like a 7-week wait. Takes place in about the same timeframe as "The Jungle", interesting juxtaposition. Good book, start to end.  LHC #205: "They can't kill us until they kill us" by Hanif Abdurraqib. Hard copy, because the e-book had like a 14-week wait. This one must get stolen a lot, they got brand-new copies in and I got one of those. I did what I do when I read something about music, which is I listen to the artist or work as much as I can as I read. This totally exposes me to things I know nothing about. It was also amusing when people would ask what I was reading, to explain to them.  "Harrow the Ninth" by Tamsyn Muir.  I want to read sequels a little closer to the book they're near, where available, rather than putting them on the list and reading them two years after I read the previous. So here we are.  Ebook. I spent a lot of time wonderi

Wind/Water/Salt  Chapters 39-51:   Still n eed to take up comments and revise.  Persephone  (probably not its real name): More words, read an interview with Sarah Monette who said "minimum 50 words per day on writing days." That's a goal I can get into, and so low it got me to open my manuscript on a not normally writing day. And then somehow I wound up writing 400 words and progressing the story, using some scraps I'd had hanging around and progressing plot and character.  Short Stories:  Maybe my process is just ridiculously slow? I worked on the same one as last month, quite a lot actually. I feel like I'm just working on this to have something to post on OWW, and maybe that's not a good reason.  Critted  9  Got back  0  but also posted nothing.  Submissions  0  Out there  1  Rejects  0 Knitting Tay Tartan cardigan  (Martin Storey). Started the month with just the finishing to do. Sewed the shoulders (I may hate Martin Storey shoulders!), did the button ban