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; did not disappoint.

LHC #286: "River of Teeth" by Sarah Gailey. Audiobook The idea is neat, anyway.

"The AI Mirror: How to reclaim our humanity in the age of machine thinking" by Shannon Vallor. eBook for office book club. I was nervous because my workplace seems very all-in on AI, but I could agree with just about everything here.

Moraine

So a couple of days I thought I was done with this short story, and I wrote the last line of the story. I even dated it (that's how I can tell it's over). It was a little long, at 6600 words (I was aiming for 5000). But then I was walking to work, and I thought, "My, that was a lame ending. My endings are all crap." So yesterday morning, I scribbled out the date and wrote a bit more. And this morning I wrote a bit more again, and I dated it and called it done. And still, that ending seemed lame. So a few minutes later, in the last paragraph, I scratched out "the Oak Ridges Moraine" and wrote in "that stupid moraine". Much better. Now I can move on. But in the meantime, I was doing a little research about the Moraine, and I discovered that EGTourGuide lives on it. Only by one or two hundred feet, but I thought it was funny. Good for you, EGTourGuide, with all those excellent plants growing on that substandard soil, where in the olden days (you kno...

In progress: August 2024

Wind/Water/Salt Chapters 39-51: Still n eed to take up comments and revise. Persephone (probably not its real name): Continued to think thoughts. Short Stories: After posting that short story from last month onto the workshop, I picked one of those short stories I'd started and forced a plot onto it. Critted 5 Got back 4 Submissions 0 Out there 0 Rejects 0 Knitting Cathar (self). Started month with two inches done above the armholes. Listening to audiobooks, I finished the fair isle portion, cut the steeks, and set up and knit the neckline. Just the endless finishing now. Blushing Cloud (Knitty S/S24). Started the month with (still) three inches of back done. Socks take priority. Elbrus socks (Knitty first fall 2024). Finished. Elbrus socks II . Started the first. Pole shorts (Joan McGowan-Michael). I knitted these several years ago, but the...

Best TW feedback ever

Over at the dayjob, SMEs are feverishly trying to get documents back to me all marked up, in preparation for the release that's supposed to happen the week I'm back from VP. Today's best comment: Unfortunately not true. SMEs, they're so cute.

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