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Spring (Poem) 27 Aug 2013 | 03:11 pm
heavy with jasmine, the garden salutes the pastel sky with open-eyed blooms. children cooped too long against the dreariness of winter screech life to the brave young sun. everywhere steps lighten, wh...
A side benefit of working 24 Aug 2013 | 03:49 am
Reading Captain Awkward's latest advice, to two Letter Writers whose partners flat out decline to help in any way with cooking, childcare and cleaning, highlighted sharply to me one of the aspects of ...
Reading Notes: The Testament of Mary 17 Aug 2013 | 08:50 am
This review constitutes part of my commitment to read and review as many of the 13 Man Booker longlisted titles as possible before the announcement of the shortlist on 10 September. The Testament of M...
Purple Party, Tonsillitis, Juggling and All that Jazz 11 Aug 2013 | 04:26 am
Yesterday was my firstborn's 10th birthday party. Her actual birthday was Thursday, and she'd decided months ago that she wanted to have a purple-themed party and to invite lots of friends, aware that...
A job like thing 4 Aug 2013 | 04:38 am
On Tuesday, an important phase shift in our family life came to pass as I headed off to my first day in my new fulltime salaried job. My husband had taken a day off to enable me to not worry about pic...
Reading Notes: Captain Vorpatril's Alliance, and a note on Throne of the Crescent Moon 28 Jul 2013 | 07:54 am
This post is part of my commitment to read and review as many nominated works in the Hugo Awards (Science Fiction Awards) as possible before the prize announcements in early September. Today I am lo...
New reading challenge: The Man Booker Prize longlist 24 Jul 2013 | 04:52 am
The longlist for the 2013 Man Booker Prize was announced yesterday, presenting an interesting 13-book selection. Featuring less debut authors than last year's list (there are three - Eve Harris, NoVio...
Time for a post about something gross 22 Jul 2013 | 09:15 am
Recently, we've been spending a horrific amount of time in a war of attrition with the remarkable, persistent and apparently unkillable human parasite, the intrepid pediculosis capitis. That would be...
To a lost love (poem) 21 Jul 2013 | 05:10 pm
I remember when the river, in flood, carried me like a coracle fast downstream, lifted above the murk by the force of motion. not so long ago, it seems, depositing me in the sea of the world, stars g...
Reading Notes: Blackout 17 Jul 2013 | 09:27 am
This post is part of my commitment to read and review as many nominated works in the Hugo Awards (Science Fiction Awards) as possible before the prize announcements in early September. Today I am lo...
