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"Morgan is my name" by Sophie Keech. Office book club selection. It gets exhausting to read about plucky young heroines who are terrible at needlework all the time. I should probably read some Jo Walton. I mean, you can be good at needlework and other things too! I didn't find this book very surprising. The first half was kind of boring, but it got better towards the end.  LHC #233: "The Shifter" by Janice Hardy. I read her writing advice website regularly, so I thought I should maybe read an actual book to find out if she was worth it. Oh my, the voice of this book grabbed me immediately. The worldbuilding seemed shady but the voice was solid. It wasn't very subtle, but I might not be the target audience.  LHC #234: "Ragnarok: The End of the Gods" by A. S. Byatt. At this point with my library account, I'm just guessing. I know there was something by Byatt there? I suspect there was. I did not know what to make of this book. Strange, but it w...

What a bad selfie! What an awesome sweater!  Wind/Water/Salt  Chapters 39-51:   Still n eed to take up comments and revise.  Persephone  (probably not its real name): Thought thoughts mostly.  Short Stories: Started a third draft where I took out all the things that didn't belong.  Critted  6  Got back  1    Submissions  0  Out there   0   Rejects   0 Knitting Cathar  (self). Started the month with the fair isle portion barely started. Since I was now down to 2 projects, I had no choice but to work on this, which is good. I planned to the armholes and did about half of that.  Braids   (self). Started  the month with just the hem to go and then a small amount of finishing. It went great and now it's done.  Morning Brew  (Coffeehouse Knits). Started the month with a tiny bit of the body done. As it's mindless, and I'd run out of other mindless projects, I did a bit.  Tin...