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Daily efforts Bonechill (that horror novel): I stopped working on this because I don’t know where it’s going, and I worked on WWS edits instead. That huge pile of notes : still making notes Accomplishments “Wind/Water/Salt”. Posted chapter 10 to OWW. Connecting Critted  6 Got back 4 Subs 1 Knitting Ann Boleyn (1998).  Finished all the knitting and sewed the danglers in, sewed on clasps. Blocking was a strange challenge. Celtic Gang Girls of the 70’s (Rowan and me). This needs to be finished by November. The sleeves are done. Started the month with 3 inches of back. Now I have 6. The finishing will be brutal! FI Corset belt. To use up some sock yarn, and make some of my elastic-waist pants more wearable. And to see if I’ll wear it. Sometimes I covet things I won’t wear, and this might get me in the habit of wearing some other things I have around… anyway, I made a swatch and started knitting with black and midnight blue, which is tough

“The Red” Linda Nagata. Ed was quite taken by the form factor of this book. It’s been lying around the house for probably 1.5 years. I found it unsettling, which is a good thing. Oh, and at a certain point I was really happy when a certain character just died already, as I was really sick of that character.  “The Kindred of Darkness” by Barbara Hambly. Library book but not on the hold challenge because the author was recommended by Scott Lynch a couple of weeks ago. This was the first BH book that appeared in my library search, so I requested it, not realizing it’s book 5 in a series. That’s probably why I had a challenge keeping track of who all the characters were – I don’t have any history with them, though I suspect a lot of the society people were new for this volume. Just, I had to use extra cycles to keep track of the others. I loved how the author used Lydia’s poor eyesight and vanity to fill in the scenes. This is something I need to learn to do for example for Abigail