Last Friday I went to a midnight release party for Breaking Dawn with Lenneth and Johan (who kindly drove us, and Lenneth’s niece, down to Redding for the occasion.) I spent the evening finishing the last third of Eclipse, watching cute little emos!!!! people drift around; at midnight we picked up our copies and headed [...]

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Finally broke my month-and-a-half not-reading streak by tearing through Twilight on Thursday, then Stardust with equal speed today. I’m starting to feel my imagination again; things are once more catching my eye, wandering away with my thoughts, and I can feel the juices stir ever so slightly. I saw amazing clouds on my way to [...]

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This is my only day at home this week; a flurry of housework, lawn watering and tea-making has me up and out of my chair every five minutes or so. Yesterday I took my father to his surgery follow-up; Monday I went to Yreka to do some errands. Tomorrow and Friday I’m in Mt. Shasta/Dunsmuir. [...]

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I was tagged yesterday by Angela but was away from my books.
The rules:

Pick up the nearest book.
Open to page 123.
Find the fifth sentence.
Post the next three sentences.
Tag five people and post a comment on Angela’s blog (she’s the one who tagged me) once you’ve posted your three sentences.

I’ve just started Tamsin by Peter S. Beagle, [...]

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I’m anxious about work, that I’m not doing enough more fastly; I’m anxious about my writing, that I’m not doing any at all; I’m anxious about my blogging, that each day I wake up and can think of nothing to say but that I’m working and haven’t written at all. Trying to calm down and [...]

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This week’s Booking Through Thursday:
Do your reading habits change in the Spring? Do you read gardening books? Even if you don’t have a garden? More light fiction than during the Winter? Less? Travel books? Light paperbacks you can stick in a knapsack?
Or do you pretty much read the same kinds of things in the Spring [...]

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I’ve been massively sick for days, doing little but sleep, imbibe vitamin C in various forms, and read. I’m working my way through The New Space Opera, and it’s been delightful to see the old stuff transform into the new stuff, into the new-old stuff. Almost a third of the way through the anthology now; [...]

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