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Word count metrics update
I’ve been in another prolonged writing funk, which has been frustrating–so tonight I tried another round of throwing tiny bits of words at stuff. Got up to just over 200 by throwing small words at four different things, so I’ll take that! So we’ve got 51 words into Chapter 4 of Shadow of the Rook,…
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Really now, I just want stuff to work
Is that too much to ask? Grf. Case in point: my computer surgery from yesterday. Winnowill’s hard drive had started making disturbing, unusually loud noises when spinning up out of hibernation. This concerned me, especially given that everybody I mentioned this to said “yep, time to get a new hard drive”. So yesterday I went…
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Book Log #55: Uglies, by Scott Westerfeld
My rating: 3 of 5 stars Scott Westerfeld’s Uglies was one of those books I’d been hearing about for ages, and I’ll cheerily admit that glancing at the blurbs on it and the other books in the series in a bookstore did pique my interest. I did not, however, get a chance to read this…
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Book Log #54: Carnal Innocence, by Nora Roberts
My rating: 3 of 5 stars Nora Roberts really does love her some “girl who’s been away for ages goes back to family home in a small town, and OHNOEZ THERE’S A MURDER” plots, and Carnal Innocence is yet another one of those type of books. Fortunately, this is a plot formula that Ms. Roberts…
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Okay yeah fine hiatus didn’t last the month
It will probably surprise none of you that I did not actually make it to the end of this month without buying a brand new book. However, in my own defense, I will add that the book in question was the anthology Close Encounters of the Urban Kind, edited by , the lady who was…
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Book Log #53: Red Hood’s Revenge, by Jim C. Hines
My rating: 4 of 5 stars It gives me great, great glee to think of Jim Hines’ version of Little Red Riding Hood: a formidable assassin, “the Lady of the Red Hood”, whose magical cape grants her the ability to take on wolf form. She’s the central new character in Book 3 of his Princess…
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Saturday’s reading
Although my foray into Great Big Sea video fandom did not go as hoped, I can say that Saturday’s reading at the Wayward did go quite swimmingly! I was horribly nervous, enough that when I got up to do my bit from Chapter 1, I could feel my knees loosen–and when I got done and…
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Well, bugger
The finalists for the Great Big Sea Karaoke Contest were announced this morning and I fear that our video was NOT included on the list! Sniff. Many thanks to all of you who took a look and offered words of encouragement, they are much appreciated! I would like to endorse, in our stead, the “Hit…
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Book Log #52: Fatal Affair, by Marie Force
My rating: 3 of 5 stars Fatal Affair, a Carina Press release by Marie Force, promises to be the first of a series involving the same romantic couple. I must give Ms. Force points for this, as I quite like to see a series develop the relationship between an established pair–J.D. Robb of course comes…
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Recently listened-to new music
I have continued to work through my Not Recently Played playlist, in my ongoing quest to play everything in my musical collection at least once this year. Right now I’m spread out between the letters L and O, which has had the happy side effect of letting me play several new purchases roughly where they…
