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What I read - June 2025

LHC #284: "Ink Blood Sister Scribe" by Emma Torzs. eBook. I found it a little "all in" on the everyone is keeping information from each other plot, but at least there was Nicholas. I thought it was going to be some kind of a slog until Nicholas showed up.  "Written on the Night" by Guy Gavriel Kay. There might be two books by him that I haven't read? We own them all anyway. I could count on Ed reading it too, so it's worth buying. He didn't seem that excited when I brought it out (granted, he was tired from having just been on a very stressful flight where he thought his bow had been left behind by the airline when he took off) but a week later he'd finished whatever he was reading and came to me and said "Where's that GGK book? I've run out of things to read." And I showed it to him, it was in my hand as I was reading chapter 3.  LHC #285: "King Rat" by China Mieville. Hard copy. One of my favorite authors; d...

In Progress - June 2025

Wind/Water/Salt  Chapters 39-51:   Nothing. Persephone  (probably not its real name): Wrote a scene in the last third, not the ending.  Vinterlys: Posted chapter 1, started reading ahead and marking the rest of the chapters, working on an outline of the rest, started editing chapter 2.  Critted  4  Got back  5 Submissions  0  Out there   0   Rejects   0 Knitting Hamilton  (Self). Started the month with about six rows of the colorwork on the second sleeve. My goal for the month was to finish the edging band which is 22 rows. I had to set myself a quota to get myself to do it, because it was so unpleasant, but I got it done.  Sulaire  (Alice Starmore). Finished. There was a lot of finishing! Can't wait for September to wear it.  1x1 stripe socks. Knit from a picture. I had started the first one last month, this month I finished the pair.  Color block sock . Knit from a picture. Started the first....