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Radio silence for quite a while, and only books postings for a while longer yet. I had so intended to be more consistent with posting. Hah.

Well. In the last several months, I have

• Read a few books. Not many; for whatever reason reading just hasn't been a thing I wanted to do. But.
  1. Fluke, Christopher Moore (audio)
  2. The Mad Scientist's Guide to World Domination, John Joseph Adams, ed (anthology, audio)
  3. Six Wakes, Mur Lafferty
  4. Full Fathom Five, Max Gladstone
  5. The Brightest Fell, Seanan McGuire (audio)
  6. Medea, Kerri Greenwood


• Made a thing: The Evil Devil Child and the Perfect Gift, recorded for HP Podfic Fest 2017


• Signed up for HD Owl Post 2017.


• Had my picture taken for The Awakenings Project, a photo essay/book about women's empowerment. Part of the process is choosing a word to embody/invoke. I chose DAUNTLESS.
  Here are my photos: Profile and Full face


• Sang at St Louis Pride with my CHARIS sisters, and rejoined for the fall 2017-spring 2018 season.


• Replaced my venerable MacBookPro Zoe (built late 2008) with a slightly newer one. The other morning, Tammie said to me, "Zoe's under the sofa!" I pulled her out and turned on the screen to find that it had been crushed. Before I actually made it to the mac store to get an estimate for screen replacement, Rosa pointed out that the whole case was crushed and the DVD drive now looked like this: )| Obviously, replacing the screen wasn't going to cut it, so we decided to use my (conveniently-timed, as it turned out) annual bonus to buy a newer, non-crushed MacBook built mid-2012. Chris performed surgery to transplant the hard drive from Zoe's old body into her new one, and she lives again. Faster and shinier, but also smaller. Old case was a 15" screen, new one is 13".


• Played a lot of Pokemon GO.


• Attended Beer Choir three times. Which is more or less exactly what it sounds like: a bunch of people get together and drink beer and sing (songs about beer, mostly). It's a lot of fun.


That'll do to be going on with, anyway.

Lots of travel combined with jury duty this month means lots of reading time.

1. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, Ransom Riggs


2. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen (audio)


3. My Brilliant Friend, Elena Ferrante, abandoned 40%
   I got bored. Lovely writing about annoying people, and nothing much happening. I just read an interview with Ursula K. Leguin where she called Ferrante overrated, and I'm afraid I have to agree.


4. The Burning Page, Genevieve Cogman


5. Chapel of Ease, Alex Bledsoe (audio)


6. Seven Surrenders, Ada Palmer


7. Attachments, Rainbow Rowell


8. Ready Player One, Ernest Cline


9. Rasputin, Faith, Power, and the Twilight of the Romanovs, Douglas Smith
   Abandoned 40%. Got lost on all the Russian names and went to something else and it expired. Didn't care enough to renew it.


10. The New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander


11. The Core of the Sun, Johanna Sinisalo


12. Borderline: The Arcadia Project, Mishell Baker


13. An Accident of Stars, Foz Meadows


14. The Natural Way of Things, Charlotte Wood


15. No Proper Lady, Isabel Cooper


16. Hunger Makes the Wolf, Alex Wells


17. Wake of Vultures, Lila Bowen


18. Legend of the Highland Dragon, Isabel Cooper