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So now there's a stack of these in Porter Square Books:



The reading went really well. nineweaving's new paperback is very classy. Afterward derspatchel presented me with a hardcover reprint of Esther Averill's Jenny and the Cat Club (1973) and sairaali gave me a stunningly adorable hand-knitted nudibranch. I got to talk to schreibergasse for more than half an hour between job interviews and audioboy took the picture above. My book is sitting between something with a cat on it and the paperback of a novel I have been waiting for.

Evening: success.

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That sounds immensely successful and satisfying. Hooray!

Thank you! It was great.

Also, the nudibranch is adorable.

It is very pettable and endearing. I have put it on a shelf well out of reach of the cats. Have you also seen Saira's mantis?

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That is an incredibly formidable mantis. I once shared a bedroom with a rather large free-range mantis, but not quite so large as that. I think I would be faintly uneasy sleeping in a room with a live mantis of that size, but that one looks reasonably pettable, given that its scythe-like forearms will probably not snap shut on me.

Saira's work has put me in a mischievous frame of mind. There may be unforeseen crochet consequences. :)