But the metal weighs down the bearings and the city has to cut the bolts
I am spending much of my time very flat, mostly reading, sleeping enough to dream, not necessarily enough to think, but in the usual fashion managed to take a walk around my neighborhood late in the afternoon.
A weeping iris.
A sheaf of whirligigs.
I visit this rear-view mirror as in my old neighborhood I used to visit a sun-catching face of brick.
A vanitas of spring.
I was so entertained by the avowedly partisan entry on Kay in Phyllis Ann Karr's The Arthurian Companion (1983/97) that it finally occurred to me to try to track down some of her Arthurian short stories and thus encountered a canonical description of her favorite churlish knight in "The Coming of the Light" (1992): "a sharpfaced dark man, also with hair more silver than black, who sat far to one side but spoke with more authority than his distance from the king would have suggested." Yes, look, I've loved his terrible personality for ages, I didn't need confirmation he has an interesting face, too.
After several years of not getting around to it, I really enjoyed C. M. Waggoner's The Ruthless Lady's Guide to Wizardry (2021) just in time to hear Lucy Dacus' "Best Guess" (2025) on WERS and get the song fixed in my head to its plot: If I were a gambling man, and I am, you'd be my best bet.
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selkie sent me waves in the Drake Passage.
A weeping iris.
A sheaf of whirligigs.
I visit this rear-view mirror as in my old neighborhood I used to visit a sun-catching face of brick.
A vanitas of spring.
I was so entertained by the avowedly partisan entry on Kay in Phyllis Ann Karr's The Arthurian Companion (1983/97) that it finally occurred to me to try to track down some of her Arthurian short stories and thus encountered a canonical description of her favorite churlish knight in "The Coming of the Light" (1992): "a sharpfaced dark man, also with hair more silver than black, who sat far to one side but spoke with more authority than his distance from the king would have suggested." Yes, look, I've loved his terrible personality for ages, I didn't need confirmation he has an interesting face, too.
After several years of not getting around to it, I really enjoyed C. M. Waggoner's The Ruthless Lady's Guide to Wizardry (2021) just in time to hear Lucy Dacus' "Best Guess" (2025) on WERS and get the song fixed in my head to its plot: If I were a gambling man, and I am, you'd be my best bet.
selkie sent me waves in the Drake Passage.
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Thank you! After something like fifteen years of faithful service and at least one bad fall, the camera is starting to throw up errors and shut itself down in the middle of a shot and I am living in fear of losing it, since I have never had another digital camera and one of the things I love about this one is that it is too old to do anything very interesting.
Oh, good! I have that sitting on my TBR - I picked it up in a charity shop some time last year or the year before, & I shall take that as a rec and maybe read it within the next two or sooner.
It is a recommendation! I had loved half of its predecessor Unnatural Magic (2019) and then despite assurances on good authority that the entire novel was solid the second time around, just never followed up until a couple of nights ago. No prior knowledge is required, although it is additionally fun if you know anything about the love interest's parents. It reminded me favorably of some novels from the '80's, '90's, and '30's.
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Oh, no! Poor Camera!
since I have never had another digital camera and one of the things I love about this one is that it is too old to do anything very interesting.
Oh, what, you mean, it doesn't send text messages and automatically share to Instagram or switch on your fridge and let you watch telly on it?? It just takes pictures? Unheard of! /o\ /o\ /o\
No prior knowledge is required, although it is additionally fun if you know anything about the love interest's parents. It reminded me favorably of some novels from the '80's, '90's, and '30's.
Oh, cool. I picked it up, but I sort of have to wait, like the pickiest eater/reader, until I am in whatever actually constitutes the Right Mood. But that is good to know! (Also, my birthday set the TBR pile back a bit, as is only the right purpose of a birthday. Books dropped through my door one by one on Friday! It was awesome. XD)
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It wouldn't upload to the cloud if I threw it through one! I don't want to lose it!
Also, my birthday set the TBR pile back a bit, as is only the right purpose of a birthday. Books dropped through my door one by one on Friday! It was awesome.
Happy birthday! Congratulations on your well-earned book haul!