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LHC #324: "The Annual Migration of Clouds" by Premee Mohamed. eBook. Beautifully written, but I wanted it to be more expansive.  LHC #325: "How to Suppress Women's Writing" by Joanna Russ. Hard copy. Very angry! Now I know about Aphra Behn!  "The Crow Trap" by Ann Cleeves. Hard copy, lent to me by a friend. I read it on the train. It was fine.  LHC #326: "On the Ravine" by Vincent Lam. Audiobook. A bit pedantic. I learned a lot, but I had to listen to it at 1.15 speed. Everyone made pretty bad choices. I found Memorex/Iawagaing (forgive my spelling, audio book!) sort of unbelievable but whatever.  "The Library at Mount Char" by Scott Hawkins. eBook. This was awesome. Great voice, so funny. I loved this book. Everyone made such bad choices! 

"Karate Do: My Way of Strife" by Norma Foster. Hard copy. I've saw her in person once, in Edmonton in 2019. My sensei lent this to me. His marginalia was great. because sometimes he was there.  LHC #322:   "A most remarkable creature" by Jonathan Mieberg.  eBook. Loved it.  "The Dream Hotel" by Laila Lalami. Hard copy for office book club. I found part 1 very distressing and was happy to set it aside because that was all Book Club was covering in our first meeting. Then the meeting got postponed and I missed it because I was out of the office, and I read parts 2 and 3 for the next meeting and found it hard to not keep going! The ending left a lot of things hanging for me, but that's okay.  LHC #323: "The Fractured Dark" by Megan E O'Keefe. Hard copy. Sequel! I enjoyed it until the main characters hooked up, and then all they did was touch each other all the time and it was so cloying. Ick. Don't know if I'll read the sequel. ...

Wind/Water/Salt   Chapters 39-51:   Nothing. Persephone  (probably not its real name): Nothing. Vinterlys:  Worked on giving Chapter 4 a shape.  Critted  4  Got back  1 Submissions  0  Out there   0   Rejects   0 Knitting Aberlady  (AS Celtic Collection). did an inch or so while listening to an audio book.  Ankylosaur  (Knitty). Started the month with one sock done to the gusset and the other done to the toe. These are done.  Bongo Basketweave   (knitty): Started the month with the back done and four inches of front. Finished the front and started the sleeves top down at the same time because I was afraid I was going to run out of yarn. Indeed, I knitted the sleeves until there was none of one of my colors left and stopped. Just the finishing to do now. I hope my half-length sleeves don't look too stupid when I'm done, but that's something to find out next month.  Plain ordinary socks. Started...

  LHC #318: "Lolly Willowes or, the Loving Huntsman" by Sylvia Townsend Warner. eBook. It was published in 1926 so it's stylistically a lot different from modern, but there was such a sense of humor!  "The maid who brought her morning tea and laid the folded towel across the hot-water can had an experienced look; when she drew the curtains she looked out upon the day with no curiosity. She had seen it already."  I loved how it ended. I really had no idea where it was going.  "The Water Outlaws" by SL Huang.  Hard copy that I got for Christmas 2024 I believe. Really fun, but I had a hard time keeping the characters' names straight.  LHC #319: "City of Lies" by Sam Hawke.  Hard copy; 3 copies in the TPL. Not for me perhaps.  LHC #320: "School of Shards" by Marina and Sergey Dyachenko . eBook. Satisfying ending to the trilogy. I definitely liked it better than book 2. Glad I read it.  LHC #321: "Wayward Son" by Rainbow R...

  Wind/Water/Salt  Chapters 39-51:   Nothing.  Persephone  (probably not its real name): Nothing. Vinterlys:  Finished Chapter 3 and posted it, started Chapter 4. At this rate I will finish in about seven years!  Critted  4  Got back  1 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. Ankylosaur  (Knitty). Started the month almost to the heel on the first sock.  Now t hat sock is done to the toe and the second one is on the gusset. I did things out of order because I started worrying about running out of yarn. This pattern uses a lot!  Fluffy Basketweave   (knitty): Started the month with six inches of back. I decided to combine this pattern with Bongo , we'll see how that goes. I hope I don't run out of yarn. Finished the back, or is it the front? and started the o...

  LHC #315: "The Brides of High Hill" by Nghi Vo. eBook. Sequel. Nice and short. This one took a turn I did not expect.  "The Grifters" by Jim Thompson.  Hard copy. Got it for Christmas, my sister said it was amazing, just got better and better. She was absolutely right.  "The Listeners" by Maggie Stiefvater.  Hard copy. I got it for my birthday last year. I never really bonded with the main character, and for vast tracts it felt like nothing happened, and I kept wanting more from the water, but it had a satisfying conclusion.  LHC #316: "History of medicine: A scandalously short introduction" by Jacalyn Duffin. Hard copy. So, funny story. I swear I bought this book like 10 years ago and it disappeared somewhere in my house never to be seen again. I periodically search for it.  Anyway, the main character of the novel I'm working on (Vinterlys) is a young woman in 1888 Providence RI who wants to be a physician. This book was always intended t...