Tuesday updatery

Tuesday, December 16th, 2025 04:04 pm
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Tali wants everybody to know that I was properly supervised this morning as I wrote:

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Tuesday. I have new glasses. Except for a change in color -- the old glasses were blue, these are a silvery pink -- they look pretty much the same. Titanium frames. The prescription pulls the right eye into line, as it continues its descent back into nearsightedness.

Regarding the read-along -- thanks to everyone who chimed in to say that their idea of reading along matched mine, and we will hope that those who were afraid they'd miss something unless recorded due to their work schedules and whatnot are now relieved to know that we're text-based, and they can check in whenever they have time.

So! People of the Read-Along, I ask your input. Do you prefer order or chaos? Which is to say, shall we commit to reading, eh, 50 pages a week, and look for an update on Monday afternoon? Or do you prefer that I just comment as I go along, and you'll catch up with me?

Please state your preference in comments.

 


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Monday evening. Book club was fun, though we were down a member, due to Life, and we did not chose another book.

Came home and had about an hour to spend with the WIP, but! Absent taking out the trash first thing, I don't have to be anywhere or do anything until 5 pm, so tomorrow morning is Bidness as Usual.

I? Think I've figured out why so many people are wanting in on my Liaden Universe® read-along, and I am going to nip this in the bud right now.

Ready?

BUD-NIPPING ANNOUNCEMENT: No, I am not reading 27 Liaden novels outloud. If this is what "read-along" means to the Greater Internet, I apologize, and will now explain what I mean when I say "read-along." I take as my model in this, Humpty Dumpty from Alice.

What I am going to do is read -- read -- the existing Liaden Universe® novels, starting with Agent of Change and going through to Diviner's Bow, in Publication Order. I will post my thoughts as I go along, and those who had decided to read along with me may comment on my comments.

I am not (that's NOT) reading them aloud, live or to a recording. Why not? Because reading aloud is a performance, and I don't want to perform, I want to read for understanding, and hopefully, pleasure.

I haven't set it up yet, but my reading notes will most likely appear on Splinter Universe. I haven't gotten much further in my considerations than the vague idea that I'll post a link whenever I've made a new post.

I'm looking at a start date of January 1 2026, and I will, as above, be starting with Agent of Change, first published as a Del Rey Books Mass Market Original, with a cover by Stephen Hickman, in February 1988. I was 35; Steve was 37.  It was our first novel, but not our first collaboration, and it hit the bookstores in December 1987, where it could be purchased for a whopping! three dollars and fifty cents, US.

Here endeth the Bud-Nipping Segment of Tonight's Entertainment.

Everybody have a good evening; stay safe. I'll look in tomorrow.

Here, have a picture from my annual review:


Monday drive-by

Monday, December 15th, 2025 09:37 am
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Monday. Sunny and cold. Tea and sunlight have happened.

Scrambled eggs with spinach and onions with whole grain toast for breakfast.

Today will be Upside Down Day: Chores/RL in the morning, writing when I come home from the bookclub. Already done the banking, where I was pleased to see the on-signing for Liaden Universe® Constellation Volume 6 sitting demurely in the account. Ms dea'Gauss will likewise be pleased.

Next up is proofing the reprint story and bio for Adversity and Audacity. Then, one's duty to the cats, and staging the trash, by which time it'll probably be time to go to the library.

Someone asked Why I was going to read the Liaden Universe® novels in publication order.

Setting aside that, "Because I want to and it's mine to decide" is a completely legitimate reason, I am reading them in publication order because!

Agent of Change was published in February 1988 (written in 1984). Diviner's Bow was published in April 2025 (written in 2023/2024). I want to see both the progression of the authors' skills, and their perceptions of their life and world as reflected in their work. This is, I note, a chancy game when played by critics, biographers, and reviewers, but I know these authors as no others can, so I feel fairly confident in my ability to read their work correctly.

And on that note! Imma proof a short story.

How's everybody doing today?


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All righty, then!  Sunday.  Cold and grey with snow showers.

Breakfast was -- all together now! -- hummus, naan, and grapes.  Lunch will be a box of something, on account I'm lazy, and also because I've got a buncha RL stuff to cope with on my desk. 
 
I also feel kinda pillow fort-ish.  No particular reason, except that Steve has now been dead longer than he's ever been dead before and I am Not Preferring this narrative.

Writing is over for the day -- 1,377 new words, bringing the entire WIP to something around 104,110.  Caught myself being unkind to same, which is too easy to do when it's Just You.  It is of course, NOT just me, and I would like to recognize Tali's support -- she came over and cleaned my eyebrows for me, which was ... strange, but well-intentioned, and I *did* feel better for it.

Tried to watch Miss Scarlet last night, and didn't quite make it through the first episode.  Maybe I'll try Bridgerton.

What else?  Oh, the plaque sellers are out in force. Honestly, I've never understood why I need a plaque to commemorate the publication of a book when, yanno, I have the book?  

There are an Incredible Number of People who are counting themselves IN on the Liaden Readalong.  We probably need a theme song.  I'll try to draft some Rules of the Read today, or tomorrow, so people can take a look and offer fine-tuning, if any.

And that's all I've got at -- well, lunchtime.

Speaking of which -- oughta go do that.

How's YOUR Sunday going?
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OK, so that's it for the day. I didn't get everything done, but really, when does that happen?

Everybody have a good evening.  Stay safe.  I'll see you tomorrow.

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