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What I Read -- November 2019

“Wylding Hall” by Elizabeth Hand. She’s one of my favorite writers, and this isn’t that long. I read it on my new phone from overdrive from the library.  LHC #57: “Too Like the Lightning” by Ada Palmer. I’m pretty sure I chose this one for the list myself. It was a fair bit of effort to read, but worth it, though the character Bridger seemed more like a 7-year-old than a youth of 13. I added the next one in the series to my list.  LHC #58: “Black Wine” by Candas Jane Dorsey. I knew nothing about it, don’t even know why it’s on the list. Marissa Lingen I think profiled her a few weeks ago. There’s a bunch of stuff there because of Jo Walton, not sure if this is part of that.

In Process -- November 2019

Wind/Water/Salt   Chapter 20: Finished and posted. Chapter 21: I’ve done two or three passes on this one, but it’s chapter 22 now so I don’t know how I’m going to get another chapter posted any time soon… Chapter 22: This chapter had a chunk that I had clearly dropped into it based on an old chapter spreadsheet, but that chunk was in the wrong chapter. Probably the spreadsheet was out of date. I moved it to the right chapter, I think. Some of these pieces I move around maybe should just be deleted. It also belonged before Chapter 21. I’m into the messy middle now! Persephone Started NaNoWriMo just to   get some stuff put together, it’s a fun way to have momentum etc. Maybe the day before nano started (i.e., Halloween), I realized who the antagonist is, and it’s actually possible to write this now, which is something. It was pretty funny – she’s a character I’d had left in some backstory scenes, no name or anything, and all of a sudden if she’s in the present t

What I read -- October 2019

LHC #54: “The Underground Railroad” by Colson Whitehead. The library has a lot of copies. I might not have got it out if I’d realized it’s an Oprah book club pick. This was a good example of that FSF tenet that you can have one unbelievable element. There was one section that was dead boring (when she had a job in the town), but the rest was good. There wasn’t as much past perfect tense as I normally like, and I feel like that was an intentional choice. LHC #55: “The Emerald Circus” by Jane Yolen. Because Jane Yolen and circus. I’ve read at least one other book by her, and this, it was a delight. I devoured it. “A Brightness Long Ago” by Guy Gavriel Kay. Ed got it for his birthday. He said it was good, but maybe not GGK’s best. I liked the structure. I need to find a resource online about all the little links between GGK books, because the ending of this one had some I knew and some I felt like I was missing. I guess if I’d read them multiple times that would be no proble