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 LHC #184: "Amberlough" by Lara Elena Donnelly read by Mary Robinette Kowal. Audiobook, listened to it mostly in my car driving to and from Ottawa. There was more gay sex than I expected, but it was fine because it was all totally integrated in the plot, characters interrogating each other during, etc.  LHC #185: "Subprime Attention Crisis" by Tim Hwang. ebook. This was more history than future than I wanted, but I guess predicting is risky.  LHC #186: "Jade War" by Fonda Lee. Read book 1 almost 2 years ago. When I get the hold list down to a reasonable number*, I think I will start reading series closer together, it's more enjoyable. Anyway, I talked this one enough that the boy will probably start the series, and I've already added book 3 to my list. LHC #187: "A Necessary Evil" by Abir Mukherjee. eBook. I said to someone I was critting recently that I don't read much in the way of mysteries, and apparently that was a lie. I read

Wind/Water/Salt Chapters 39-51:  Still n eed to take up comments and revise.  Persephone  (probably not its real name): Kept writing on towards the ending. I was explaining to Ed why Jade City was so great and realized I needed to kill more characters, and actually that was what was wrong with my ending sequence, so I got a bit more ruthless.  Short Stories:  Needing something to post to OWW, I worked on one, stripping out some bad choices I think. Hope. I'm on the last pass before I call it done.  Critted  7  Got back  0 I caught up with everyone I've been critting lately, or they slowed down, one or the other. Oh, and one disappeared entirely. I hate when that happens.  And it's probably not a good thing that I've got more time slotted for working on other people's stuff than my own.   Submissions  0  Out there  1  Rejects  0 Knitting Striped long-sleeved t-shirt  (self).  Still on the first sleeve. I haven't really worked on it since I started I Yam, I'd