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It's working! And sundry links

Now that the whole crossposting thing is working, I plan to continue reducing my presence on Facebook. I often post things there to remember them, but I can’t find them later when I want them. So it makes much more sense, of course, to post them here. There’s also the fact that Meta can’t make money off me if I’m not over there. So – we went to Mom’s place today to visit and fix things. Rick…

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Discussing baby’s future

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They are both doing the "I want" chitter. They very much want to get up, but they have a sleeping baby cuddling with them. They must endure, but they will not be silent about it

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Well well well, kitties. Looks like you want to get up but there's a little cat on you so you can't. Very frustrating situation there, can't imagine the burden of being held down by a little adorable kittycat. Couldn't, as the kids say, be me.

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5 posts!

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Book Review: Librarian Bear by Zoe Chant

Librarian Bear by Zoe Chant My rating: 3 of 5 stars Well, this wasn’t quite as good as the first book in the series, Timber Wolf, so I couldn’t escape into it as much as the first one. It is still a fun read, and Virtue seems like it would be a lovely place to live. We met one of the main characters, Sarah, in Timber Wolf. She’s the town’s librarian and much, much more. She has convinced herself…

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Book Review: Timber Wolf by Zoe Chant

Timber Wolf by Zoe Chant My rating: 5 of 5 stars I finished this book a couple of days ago. I read a fair amount of varied fiction, but I don’t usually read romances at all. I definitely don’t usually read the various shifter romances that seem to have flooded the market. I picked this one up because the author is otherwise known as C.E. Murphy and I really enjoyed Murphy’s Walker Papers series.…

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Book Review: Rift in the Soul by Faith Hunter

Rift in the Soul by Faith Hunter My rating: 5 of 5 stars Well, that was intense! I had trouble stopping reading this book. I was distracted by wanting to read at inappropriate times because I wanted to know what happened next. That doesn’t happen to me very often. Rift in the Soul is not a book to pick up as an introduction to the Soulwood series or to this world (Jane Yellorock’s universe) in…

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Book Review: Ribbon Dance by Sharon Lee & Steve Miller

Ribbon Dance by Sharon Lee My rating: 5 of 5 stars I finished Ribbon Dance a couple of days ago. I took my time to savor the book rather than devouring it all in one go (or close) as I have done with other books in this series. It is immensely enjoyable and eminently satisfying. The book is densely plotted. Almost all of it takes place on Colemeno, a planet that was inaccessible to most of the…

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R.I.P. to My Little Brother

I haven’t talked about this publicly yet, but we lost my brother recently. He was diagnosed with stage four recto-colon cancer about 13 months before he died. He had the best treatment, but it wasn’t enough. Please, get your colonoscopies on schedule! Grief, I’ve learned, is really just love. It’s all the love you want to give, but cannot. All that unspent love gathers up in the corners of your…

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Review: Role Playing by Cathy Yardley

Role Playing by Cathy Yardley My rating: 5 of 5 stars What a lovely story! I heard about this book from a friend in a Slack community. I was reluctant at first because I just don’t read romances. My husband didn’t believe me at first when I told him I was reading a book with no high-tech devices, magic, or mystery. The description of the story had drawn me in, though, so I couldn’t resist. We…

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