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Wind/Water/Salt  Chapters 39-51:   Still n eed to take up comments and revise.  Persephone  (probably not its real name): Continued to think thoughts.  Short Stories:   Finished the one I pulled from the backlog in March, posted it on OWW, pulled out something else.  Critted  4  Got back  3 Submissions  0  Out there   0   Rejects   0 Knitting Cathar  (self). Started the month with the body done to the armholes and maybe half an inch of sleeve. My goal was to finish that first sleeve, so I can do the next one in June and the upper chest/shoulders in July, then the finishing and neck in August, but this may not be realistic. I did finish that first sleeve and started the second.  Morning Brew  (Coffeehouse Knits). Started the month with several inches of the first sleeve done.My goal was to finish this sleeve, then do the second sleeve in June, then finish it in July so I can (blessedly) start something else. I finished both sleeves!  Blushing Cloud  (Knitty S/S24). I had maybe three inc

"Educated" by Tara Westover. Office book club selection for June, and one of my other colleagues who isn't in book club read it and found it good but harrowing. And my sister read it and said I'd like it. She made me cry, when her mother said "You were my child. I should have protected you." And then of course I was angry for the rest of the book. I hadn't realized when I started that her PhD is in history, that made so much of what I liked make sense (where she's presenting differing views in the footnotes, etc.)  LHC #246: "For the Wolf" by Hannah Whitten. Hard copy because the TPL Overdrive site had 2 copies and 72 holds, so a wait of "at least six months". I found it sort of hard to read, something about the sentences and paragraphs didn't sit right. The characters' communication styles drove me crazy, maybe it was condoning toxic masculinity? Not the book for me I guess. LHC #247: "The Women could Fly" by Me