Books read in 2011

Invader, C.J. Cherryh (read out loud with Steve)
Library Wars Volume 1: Love and War, Kiiro Yumi
The Perilous Gard, Elizabeth Marie Pope
Edie Ernst, USO Singer — Allied Spy, Brooke McEldowney
Silver Phoenix, Cindy Pon
Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson (e)
Foreigner, C.J. Cherryh (read aloud with Steve)
Betrayer, C.J. Cherryh (read out loud with Steve)
Right-Ho, Jeeves, P.G. Wodehouse (e)
American Rose, Karen Abbott
The Bull God, Roberta Gellis (e)
Sin in the Second City, Karen Abbott
Of Blood and Honey, Stina Leicht (e)
The God Engines, John Scalzi (e)
Or Else My Lady Keeps the Key, Kage Baker (e)
Unseen, Rachel Caine
Total Eclipse, Rachel Caine
Weight of Stone, Laura Anne Gilman
The Story of Chicago May, Nuala O’Faolain

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Appropos of Nothing Much

Back before there were blonde jokes, there were moron jokes, of which my dad had an endless supply.

One such had to do with two fellows leaving appointments at opposite ends of the city, the plan being to meet at a certain street corner and go on to a third, joint, appointment together. However, time was tight and they acknowledged that they might miss each other, in which case they should each go on separately.

But how to tell if they had, indeed, missed each other?

"I know!" said the first fellow. "If I get there first, I'll make a chalk mark on the light pole."

"Excellent!" exclaimed the second fellow. "And if I get there first -- I'll rub it out!"
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*baDaBOOM*

Oh, your daddy’s rich, and your ma is good-lookin’

So, Admin has decided when summer is — a hotly anticipated decision at the end of every school year. Really, I think we’re missing a bet by not starting a pool — insert groan here — but the administrative staff, whose household budgets serve as the markers in the game, can’t really afford to gamble.

In any case, summer starts on Monday! Which is good. Now I can get some work done.

Speaking of work, I have been — slowly, I’ll grant — uploading ebooks to Smashwords, which offers multiple formats for download and a library shelf for patrons, so if you change your desktop, or drop your smartphone into a koi pond, you will at least not have lost your books.

You may, as of this day and hour, find the following Lee and Miller, and Lee, and Miller ebooks on Smashwords:

Two Tales of Korval:  Adventures in the Liaden Universe® Number 1
Fellow Travelers: AitLU #2
Duty Bound: AitLU #3
Certain Symmetry: AitLU #4
Variations Three
Chariot to the Stars

I do know that this part of Steve and Sharon’s Excellent eBook Adventure is taking a bit of time.  We do intend to keep at it until it’s done, and the advent of day-job summer may well speed the process along.  Do tell your ebook reading friends about Pinbeam Books (eBooks you want to read!).  Signal-boosts greatly appreciated.

And now?  Steve is making Philly cheese steak sammiches for lunch, so you can bet I’m heading for the kitchen.  Yeah.  Along with the cats.

G’night.

Originally published at Sharon Lee, Writer. You can comment here or there.