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Reading List

...which is to say, books I've read thus far in 2006.  The mountain of books to be read is much too lengthy to include here.

...basically just a list for my own information...

The Carousel Keepers, Carrie Papa
The Celestial Steam Locomotive, Michael Coney
Worldwired, Elizabeth Bear
Fire Sanctuary, Katharine Eliska Kimbriel
Pretender, C.J. Cherryh
Will in the World, Stephen Greenblatt
Skeletons in the Zahara, Dean King
Dead to the World, Charlaine Harris
Dead as a Doornail, Charlaine Harris
Saturday Night at Moody's Diner, Tim Sample
Fruits Basket, Volumes 8-13, Natsuki Takaya
Uglies, Scott Westerfield
Pretties, Scott Westerfield
Narbonic, Volume 3, Shaenon K. Garrity
Murder with Peacocks, Donna Andrews
Murder with Puffins, Donna Andrews
The Man Behind the Iron Mask, John Noone
It Happened in Maine, Gail Underwood Parker
Lud-in-the-Mist, Hope Mirrlees
Blood and Iron, Elizabeth Bear
The Unstrung Harp, or: Mr. Earbrass Writes a Novel, Edward Gorey
Dragon's Eye, James A. Hetley
Poison Study, Maria V. Snyder
Firestorm, Rachel Caine

Well....spit

Sign-ups for my class fell short by two students, and so it's been canceled. Argh.

Also?  Realized that today is my sister's birthday and that I didn't manage to get the card in the mail.  Me for the phone in a few, I think.

In other news, I've been very industrious today, baking, cleaning off the countertop, waxing brushing the cat, doing two loads of laundry (so, all right -- towels.  Sue me.), and all kinds of other things that are neither writing nor filling out the long, involved form that needs to be done.  It's not that I mind filling out forms, exactly; it's more that I mind having to re-enter stuff that already exists in a perfectly accessible format that happens not to be the other guy's preferred format.  It's probably a control thing.

For those Second Lifers who have been wondering why there's a HUGE honking quasi-Japanese house on the land where the merry-go-round is supposed to be -- the Second Childhood Carousel has been relocated to Friends of Liad Park in beautiful downtown Clay.  Stop by, take a ride -- or three -- enjoy the waterfall, feed the koi.

Started The Privilege of the Sword yesterday, and been sneaking pages out of it all day.  Probably won't finish tonight, but it's tempting.