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LHC #334: "The Jasmine Throne" by Tasha Suri . eBook. I liked this very much and put the sequel on my list.  "Maybe you should talk to someone" by Lori Gottlieb . eBook. For office book club. The most interesting bit to me was near the beginning when she was a script assistant in Hollywood, and that was the most creative job she had in the industry. Getting promoted away from that was all about having lunches, not actually creative stuff. I would have felt the same way if I'd ever worked in that industry, but I chose the safe job instead. The therapy parts were fine I guess.  LHC #335: "The Navigating Fox" by Christopher Rowe . Audiobook. I listened to this very charming book in the car. I loved the worldbuilding, it had what was necessary and skipped the rest. How the concept of the knowledgeable animals was developed was great.  LHC #336: "Drowned Country" by Emily Tesh . Hard copy. Sequel, I forgot this one was a sequel and left it too lon...

Wind/Water/Salt Chapters 39-51: Nothing. Persephone (probably not its real name): Nothing. Vinterlys:  I'm fleshing out the doctor and patient characters, which will lead to an actual ending to the novel, not the sudden stop it has now.  Started a short story, but it's just notes and thoughts in my head. It's because I want to write something on paper, and also have something to put on OWW since I will never finish Chapter 4, it seems like.  Critted 4 Got back 1 Submissions 0 Out there 0 Rejects 0 Knitting Aberlady (AS Celtic Collection). Started the month at just over 6" of the body. Did nothing.  Plain ordinary socks #2 : Finished the second sock.  Quattro socks #2 : Finished the first. Started the second.   Boheme (Jo Sharp). Started the month with like 2 inches of the first front. Did nothing.  Release the hounds . Shrug! for me! Started a sleeve.  Sashiko project: Nothing.  Purple Romper: Nothing.  Seems like I did alm...

Wind/Water/Salt Chapters 39-51: Nothing. Persephone (probably not its real name): Nothing. Vinterlys: I've been picking through the second setting, which encompasses about 8 chapters. Separately, I had a vague idea for how to end things that might bring it back around to the beginning.   Critted 4 Got back 1 Submissions 0 Out there 0 Rejects 0 Knitting Aberlady (AS Celtic Collection). Started the month at just over 6" of the body. Did nothing.  Plain ordinary socks #2 : Started the month just past the heel on the first sock. Finished that one and started the second.  Quattro socks #2 : Started the first, got almost to the heel.  Boheme (Jo Sharp). Started a front. I'm doing the fronts first so I can maybe figure out how to decorate the back. I'm not fond of coffin sweaters. I have no idea why this only has 3 completions on Ravelry, it looks so cute.  Sashiko project: Nothing.  Purple Romper: Nothing. 

LHC #330: "Real Ones" by Katherina Vermette. Hard copy. At the start I had a hard time keeping track of which sister was which. Sometimes I wonder if KV did too? I was expecting more strife, but the only repercussions of the whole pretendian thing were some uncomfortable conversations.  LHC #331: "Red Team Blues" by Cory Doctorow. Audiobook. I have read a lot of his blog posts, and it's interesting to see him work those ideas into his fiction. I think I get the idea though. Sort of reminded me of reading "The Jungle" (Upton Sinclair), I suppose that's a good thing to be compared to? Wil Wheaton is a good reader.  Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures by Vincent Lam. Hard copy. I've had it around the house since pre-covid. I didn't realize it was the same characters as On the Ravine until I was reading that one. Way better than On the Ravine, that's for sure.  LHC #332: "Anatomy: a love story" by Dana Schwartz. Hard copy. Mayb...

Wind/Water/Salt Chapters 39-51:   Nothing. Persephone (probably not its real name): Nothing. Vinterlys: Finished Chapter 4.  Critted 4 Got back 1 Submissions 0 Out there 0 Rejects 0 Knitting Aberlady (AS Celtic Collection). Took it on vacation and did two pattern repeats (!) mostly in the car. It's now just over 6" long. I agreed with a comment I saw on Ravelry, that this was a very tedious pattern to knit. And I loved seeing some people had abandoned the key pattern at the armholes, or done the sleeves plain, or the like. I'm optimistic that it will become less hellish when I get to the armholes. Maybe I'll get there sometime around Christmas?  Quattro socks (knitty). Tidied up the danglers on the first sock, finished the second. I did not enjoy this pattern, though I will try it once more in a different size and with a different organization of balls of yarn.  Plain ordinary socks #2 : Last month I had started the cuff on the first sock. Now I'm just pas...

  LHC #327: "Interference" by Sue Burke. Hard copy. Sequel. All the characters seem sort of neuroatypical. I liked this volume better than the first, but it's totally necessary to have read the first one to enjoy this, I think. The 120-page chapter narrated by Stevland the bamboo plant was a challenge, but if it had been told by anyone else it would have been twice as long, so there's that.  "The Candy House" by Jennifer Egan. eBook, for office book club. It's a mosaic novel, and some characters' chapters were easier to read than others.  LHC #328: "How Infrastructure Works" by Deb Chachra. Hard copy. It made me think about the social contract in a much bigger way, really cool and interesting. I found this oddly organized, though I don't really know what I expected. What a smart author though, such interesting connections!  LHC #329: "The Golden Enclaves" by Naomi Novik. eBook. Third book in a trilogy. Alex had told me she...