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  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  0 as I posted nothing.  Submissions  0  Out there   0   Rejects   0 Knitting Hamilton  (Self). Started the month by picking up the stitches around the neck. I blew myself away by picking up the same number on the left and the right without actually counting. Finished the fair isle portion of this, just a tiny bit of knitting a hem and then it's the endless finishing.  Georgia  (Norah Gaughan). Started the month with one sleeve and one flounce done, and the back started. Finished the back and started a front. It's so fast compared to everything else!  Undertoe socks  (knitty). Started the month on the second sock. Finished!  Ankylosaur socks (knitty). I found this surprisingly unpleasant to work on! Did half of the first sock....

"Katabasis" by R.F. Kuang. Hard copy, gift from the boy. Dark academia, and when I read the first chapter I was like "A walk into hell, how is she going to sustain that for 500+ pages?" but it was fine. Loved it. It seemed like a couple of times a metaphor was reused or a phrase repeated on the same page, not sure if that was intentional? It lost its way for a while, I thought, about 80% in, but it ended really well.  "Finding Me" by Viola Davis.  eBook. For office book club. She sure doesn't like Portuguese people. Reminded me of my dad that way. I didn't expect all the urine. I might not have been the right audience for this as I've never seen anything she's in, but the part where she was complaining about how hard telemarketing is, I was wondering if anyone was the right audience.  LHC #300: "A  Thousand Recipes for Revenge" by Beth Cato.  Hard copy. I sort of wished the story could have worked without having to go all "fa...