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kittydesade) wrote2015-11-18 04:28 pm
kittydesade) wrote2015-11-18 04:28 pm
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I may have committed an evil when I mentioned that there was yarn to be had on the seconds list. More colors of inexpensive Brown Sheep Lanaloft for basically 30% of usual retail cost. Om nom nom. So, yeah, eventually I will have All Of The Yarn coming, some of it to go up north for a late birthday present and some of it to stay with me and keep me warm all winter. Because why not.
I haven't done a Wednesday Reads post in a while, so let's go with that. I don't think I'm going to make my goal of 100 books in a year, but I've definitely topped 50 and I should be able to add some onto that over the next month and a half.
Mad Madame LaLaurie by Victoria Cosner Love and Lorelei Shannon is a very account-based story of Madame LaLaurie of New Orleans infamy, thus it's also a lot dryer than most lurid true crime books. I enjoyed it, though. It cited a lot of source material that might still be available for looking up and researching today, if one were so inclined, and it also referenced a number of legends and traced back possible paths to the source of those legends. So that was fun.
Still working on Women of the Golden Dawn and at the moment I've switched to Return of the Black Death by Susan Scott and Christopher Duncan, because of source material for my Nanonovel. And my Kindle tells me I have three or four other books that I've almost finished, so I can knock those two off my list. At least one of them was a Phryne, not sure why I never finished that. Maybe I got distracted? And a Wild Cards, and I remember not finishing THAT because I was traveling from DragonCon and fell asleep. So. But I think for the next while I'm going to be gnawing through my collection of non-fiction, unless there's some YA/shorter fiction to read.
And knitting. Endless, endless knitting.
I haven't done a Wednesday Reads post in a while, so let's go with that. I don't think I'm going to make my goal of 100 books in a year, but I've definitely topped 50 and I should be able to add some onto that over the next month and a half.
Mad Madame LaLaurie by Victoria Cosner Love and Lorelei Shannon is a very account-based story of Madame LaLaurie of New Orleans infamy, thus it's also a lot dryer than most lurid true crime books. I enjoyed it, though. It cited a lot of source material that might still be available for looking up and researching today, if one were so inclined, and it also referenced a number of legends and traced back possible paths to the source of those legends. So that was fun.
Still working on Women of the Golden Dawn and at the moment I've switched to Return of the Black Death by Susan Scott and Christopher Duncan, because of source material for my Nanonovel. And my Kindle tells me I have three or four other books that I've almost finished, so I can knock those two off my list. At least one of them was a Phryne, not sure why I never finished that. Maybe I got distracted? And a Wild Cards, and I remember not finishing THAT because I was traveling from DragonCon and fell asleep. So. But I think for the next while I'm going to be gnawing through my collection of non-fiction, unless there's some YA/shorter fiction to read.
And knitting. Endless, endless knitting.