What I read: April 2022

LHC #163: "Mycroft Holmes" by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Anna Waterhouse. Sherlock Holmes' smarter brother written by a basketball genius? What could go wrong? Not enough girls, but whatever.

LHC #164: "Passing Strange" by Ellen Klages. Delightful!

LHC #165: "The Angel of the Crows" by Katherine Addison. By a weird fluke, this is another Sherlock Holmes, this time where Sherlock is an angel named Crow, and Watson is a doctor who was maimed by a fallen in Afghanistan named Doyle. I was thinking there weren't enough girls in this story, but changed my mind later.

LHC #166: "A Stranger in Olondria" by Sofia Samatar. I read the first 20% thinking nothing was ever going to happen, it was all just going to be sunshine and light. I don't know why this bothered me; it's a complaint people make about my stories all the time, that nothing happens. Anyway, plenty happened in the end. I liked its attitude towards humanity; most people came off as mostly good.

Best TW feedback ever

Over at the dayjob, SMEs are feverishly trying to get documents back to me all marked up, in preparation for the release that's supposed to happen the week I'm back from VP. Today's best comment: Unfortunately not true. SMEs, they're so cute.

What I read: August 2023

"The Absolute Book" by Elizabeth Knox. I got it for Christmas. It was delightful, even if maybe some stuff wasn't explained completely. Or maybe that's part of why it was delightful. "Crucial conversations" By Joseph Grenny and three other old white men. Another office book club selection. The word "candor" comes up a lot. I really resented this book. LHC #220: "The Goldfinch" by Donna Tartt. There was a girl at my previous company who wanted to have an office book club, and she had this book on her desk for months and months. I can totally understand this. I found portions crazy stressful to read. Like, I would be skipping ahead to see how much more in the section, could I get through it, pacing around, etc. I wanted to know how it ended, sure, but I was having weird stress dreams and stuff. If it wasn't a library book I might not have finished it at all. It was such a relief when Boris showed up again and something happened. I di

In Progress -- July 2023

Wind/Water/Salt Chapters 39-51: Still n eed to take up comments and revise. Persephone (probably not its real name): Nothing but thoughts. Short Stories: As I mentioned last month I had a dish-washing epiphany on a story that wasn't going well. I'd already changed the POV character, but I knew that wasn't enough because I had no ending. It has an ending now. Critted 4 Got back 0 I really need to post something new. Submissions 0 Out there 0 Rejects 1 Knitting Tay Tartan cardigan (Martin Storey). Finally finished the danglers and minor seaming and chose buttons, then had to wait to block because the space I normally block in needed to be cleared, and this would be very disruptive to my work, so I waited to block it for the night before I went on vacation. It would appear that the finishing of this sweater took 4 months, which may be a new record. It fits for the most part. Yay! Cathar (self). Started the month just about done with the body edging.

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