Robynettely

LHC #209: "Pre-industrial societies: anatomy of the pre-modern world" by Patricia Crone.  Hard copy. Really good, I liked the voice, sometimes a list of things would end in "or whatever" which I always feel like I'd get in trouble for.  LHC #210: "The hummingbird's daughter" by Luis Alberto Urrea. No clue why it was on the list. If I knew anything about 1880 Mexico it might have been an easier read, or if I knew any Spanish. Still, I got the idea and it was very good. Somewhere inside my head I had decided this was in translation. Probably racist of me.  "What Strange Paradise" by Omar el Akkad. Office book club, hard copy. I would never have picked this on my own, but it was outstanding. Loved the ending. Though I think Vanna is supposed to be 15 and she seemed kind of 10?  LHC #211: "A Declaration of the rights of Magicians" by HG Parry. Much funner. I was reading along and thinking how unrealistic it was that William Pitt was

  Wind/Water/Salt  Chapters 39-51:   Still n eed to take up comments and revise.  Persephone  (probably not its real name): I did write some words, but everything took a back seat to the tax prep project.  Short Stories:  I was using ChatGPT to research because Google sucks (what's a good poison for my location and time period, what's the cure for that poison in the time period, etc.) and then I asked Google for a cure for Arsenic poisoning, and Google told me garlic and onions! Which I thought was an appalling answer, until I thought about it, and if you're diagnosing your As poisoning via Google, then you're not going to be chelating yourself or hopefully not treating yourself with activated charcoal. If you really think you have heavy metal poisoning, see a medical professional! Not in 1880, though, they'll probably bleed you until you die.  Critted  5  Got back  0  but also posted nothing.  Submissions  1  Out there  I think the one I had out there missed the bo