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I re-ordered all this so it appears in the order I actually finished them, rather than the order I started.  LHC #246: "Tristimania" by Jay Griffiths.  Intense. I might have added this to my list because she does the Camino de Santiago. I think I expected something more personal. With more of a thread of action. For huge sections, it was nothing but picking who in mythology represents hypomania the best. Though it might have given me a title for Vinterlys so I guess it's worth it. I might have preferred it if the poetry had been at the start rather than the end; it felt already explained by the time I got to it.  LHC #244: "Ant Architecture" by Walter Tschinkel.  Very funny book! Full of bad ideas! I totally enjoyed the descriptions of experiments done on/with the ants. What a brilliant mind. I care relatively little about ants but this book was fascinating.  LHC #243: "Sex workers, psychics and numbers runners" by Lashawn Harris. A little more academ

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:   Almost finished the one I pulled from the backlog last month.  Critted  4  Got back  1 Submissions  0  Out there   0   Rejects   0 Knitting Cathar  (self). Started the month with maybe 15 rows to the armholes. But I've been thinking that for a long time. I listened to the Reith Lectures with Stuart Russell and mapped out the sleeves, then pushed to the armholes just to get it over with.   Morning Brew  (Coffeehouse Knits). Started the month at the armholes. There was a mistake in the pattern that was fortunately easy to fix (once I realized the numbers error wasn't because I'd accidentally added two stitches during the 16" of uninterrupted stockinette) because I hadn't divided for armholes yet, only for neck. I'm now finished the fronts and back and have done several inches of the first sleeve.  Tin