What I read - Feb 2025

LHC #286: "The Best of R. A. Lafferty". Hard copy, because there are only two copies in the system and no e-copies, and I don't want the thing to happen anymore where I have books on my list that I never get to read because the one copy in circulation disappears.

Short stories, and as such some worked better for me than others. Stylistically very different than what I'm used to.

LHC #287: "The Dervish House" by Ian McDonald. Hard copy for the same reason as above. Challenging, worth the effort. I kept feeling like other things I've read are in conversation with this, and I never knew what the conversation was about until now.

LHC #288: "My Heart is a Chainsaw" by Stephen Graham Jones. eBook. I was nervous because I haven't seen that many horror movies, but that turned out not to be an issue. There were two characters, Holmes and Hardy, and one scene they were both in where I didn't notice that the second one was there for like six pages. Which was annoying, but maybe they were horror references or something, who knows.

LHC #289: "Pennyblade" by James Worrad. Hard copy because there's no eBook in the TPL system. I wish I knew who'd recommended it, or why it was on my list.

LHC #270: Unraveller by Francis Hardinge. eBook. It was written for a little bit younger of an audience than I expected.

In progress - January 2026

Wind/Water/Salt Chapters 39-51: Nothing Persephone (probably not its real name): NOthing Vinterlys: Worked on Chapter 2 some more. Critted 4 Got back 1 Submissions 0 Out there 0 Rejects 0 Knitting Georgia (Norah Gaughan). Started the month with one sleeve and half a front to go. Finished. Love this sweater. Aberlady (AS Celtic Collection). Did a few rows while listening to podcasts. Summer in Tokyo (Isager): Started. I was looking at the pictures and the charts, and the pattern as written is not what is in the pictures! So odd. I am going to finish up two cones of yarn with this project! Pretty exciting. I hope I don't run out of light blue. I was working along on it, and if you go and look at the sweater, it's knit bottom-up, and I was at the part where I only had two colors, about 5" maybe. And I was thinking, "wow, this is pretty ugly! Maybe I should stop...

In progress: March 2026

Wind/Water/Salt Chapters 39-51 : Nothing. Persephone (probably not its real name): Nothing. Vinterlys: Working on Chapter 3 still, though this one seems more stable. I did work on it quite a bit during Chapter 2. 1-3 are in the same locale so it made sense to work on them together. Maybe I'll continue in this vein, doing the next locale all together too. Critted 4 Got back 3 Submissions 0 Out there 0 Rejects 0 Knitting Aberlady (AS Celtic Collection). I added markers at each pattern repeat. Hopefully that will make it easier to work on. Summer in Tokyo (Isager):Started the month with eleven rows left on the second sleeve, the yoke, and the finishing to go. And as I wanted, I finished this and now I can wear it for a little while before sweater weather is over until fall. I could not follow the yoke short row instructions as written so I did my best to make it look like th...

What I read: September 2025

LHC #295: "The Last to Leave the Room" by Caitlin Starling. Audiobook. Workplace horror? Loved it. "Careless People" by Sarah Wynn-Williams. Hard copy, for office Data Ethics book club. The stories about Sheryl Sandberg really made me like my boss better. LHC #296: "The Fated Sky" by Mary Robinette Kowal. Hard copy. This got moved up the list because Ed had read book 1 in the series and got the rest out of the library. Loved it. He's got the next one in the series upstairs, I suppose I'll read it when he's done. LHC #297: "Bluegrass: A History" by Neil V. Rosenberg. Hard copy. No idea why it was on my list, I don't care that much about bluegrass. Nevertheless, the second half was interesting. I guess the first half was necessary, as it described in great length the way people came and went in Bill Monroe's Blue Grass Boys band, and also how technology and social pressures affect how music is made and performed. LHC #298: ...

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