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you can all envy me now

Posted on January 20, 2012 by dichroic

… well, I would, if I weren’t me. Because I have just received an ARC of Flora’s Fury, sequel to Ysabeau Wilce’s Flora Segunda and Flora’s Dare. Also, tasty-looking exotic chocolates and a poster for the book (it was all … Continue reading →

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words from the ROM part of the brain

Posted on January 9, 2012 by dichroic

I wrote a few days ago about how some books have a permanent address in my head. I meant that fairly literally, in the sense of a computer memory address, andd thought I’d provide a fwe short examples here. I … Continue reading →

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a few notes on yesterday’s list

Posted on January 4, 2012 by dichroic

A few people have mentioned getting ideas for their reading my list of minireviews yesterday, and I realize that I may not have been sufficiently clear about what those books were – genre, subgenre, age, etc. I did try to … Continue reading →

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what I don’t reread

Posted on January 4, 2012 by dichroic

I wrote this in response to a conversation elsewhere, but wanted to save and expand on it here. Because I read constantly, I will reread almost anything, even books I was fairly ‘meh’ about the first time through. I reread … Continue reading →

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a meme and a push

Posted on January 3, 2012 by dichroic

I’ve seen a few people posting a “Where I Slept in 2011” meme, and of course I couldn’t resist that one. So: Eindhoven and Amsterdam, Netherlands Venice, Italy Eugene area, Grants Pass, and a few assorted points along the coast, … Continue reading →

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Magick for sale

Posted on November 29, 2011 by dichroic

I confess to an unworthy urge not to tell anyone about the Magick4Terri auction to benefit Terri Windling, because there is just so much cool stuff for sale and I don’t want people to outbid me. But, well, for one … Continue reading →

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cards, Challenge, coronation

Posted on November 26, 2011 by dichroic

I started my holiday cards today, and have concluded two things: My handwriting is definitely going downhill, probably because I hardly ever do any except to sign my name. I did about 7 cards, and this may be the most … Continue reading →

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degrees of fiction

Posted on October 15, 2011 by dichroic

The ‘seven degrees of Kevin Bacon’ game gets even more surreal when it edges into fiction. Now: At the end of the Kindle version of Laurie R. King’s novella Beekeeping for Beginners, there is a transcription of a Twitter “interview” … Continue reading →

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travel breeds complexity

Posted on October 14, 2011 by dichroic

How convenient – Shweta Narayan has just solved a dilemma I didn’t even realize I had. Since they’re just out and I had all those long plane flights ahead, I was saving the new Heroes of Olympus book and the … Continue reading →

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another Heyer question

Posted on October 1, 2011 by dichroic

Is it just me, or have the rest of you noticed an awful lot of Lord Peter and Harriet in Venetia and Damerel? There’s even a Bunter.

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