Books purchased, book still being written
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annathepiperI went out this afternoon and spent the gift card that ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
spazzkat gave me, and wound up getting five books at B&N--two fantasy novels and three mysteries. Several things I wanted, they didn't have--like the fifth Aubrey/Maturin novel and the next Lord Peter Wimsey I haven't read yet--and a couple other things I want to read aren't out in paperback yet. So I had to wander around through the store for a while and try to decide what I wanted; I even looked in the Foreign Language books section, and happened to notice that they did have a German copy of a book by one of my favorite authors. But I haven't read the English version yet! So I wasn't prepared to tackle the German. Though I'm tempted to go back and get it anyway.
The books I wound up getting were The Wayfarer Redemption (fantasy), Path of Fate (fantasy), Murderers Prefer Blondes (mystery, period, set in 1954; sounds fluffy and amusing, and features a heroine who works at a mystery magazine and who has the unfortunate name of Paige Turner), To Shield the Queen (mystery, also period, set in the time of Elizabeth I), and With Child (mystery, contemporary, second in a series by Laurie King, who I already like as an author).
A good chunk of the afternoon, though, went tosolarbird and risu both doing deep massage work on my back and hips. Said portions of my person have been giving me hell all week, thanks to lying around being ill... though I think part of it is also crankiness that's built up for months since breaking my arm. Between that and burning through a lot of stored-up calories with this illness, I'm pretty exhausted tonight as I write this.
I've played more Nethack, though... and Slashem, too, now that I've installed it on lodestone so I can flip back and forth between them with ease. I am amusing myself with the differences between the two games, and am particularly amused at Slashem having firearms, an Undead Slayer class, and Vampires as an available player race.
And I've started work on the very last chapter of the book. Contrary to previous commentary towingedelf I will definitely be hitting 86K... I hit 85K pretty easily tonight and have barely covered what I want in this chapter.
A hot soak now, and then bed.
Written tonight: 1,010
Chapter 23 total: 1,010
Story total: 85,019
spazzkat gave me, and wound up getting five books at B&N--two fantasy novels and three mysteries. Several things I wanted, they didn't have--like the fifth Aubrey/Maturin novel and the next Lord Peter Wimsey I haven't read yet--and a couple other things I want to read aren't out in paperback yet. So I had to wander around through the store for a while and try to decide what I wanted; I even looked in the Foreign Language books section, and happened to notice that they did have a German copy of a book by one of my favorite authors. But I haven't read the English version yet! So I wasn't prepared to tackle the German. Though I'm tempted to go back and get it anyway.The books I wound up getting were The Wayfarer Redemption (fantasy), Path of Fate (fantasy), Murderers Prefer Blondes (mystery, period, set in 1954; sounds fluffy and amusing, and features a heroine who works at a mystery magazine and who has the unfortunate name of Paige Turner), To Shield the Queen (mystery, also period, set in the time of Elizabeth I), and With Child (mystery, contemporary, second in a series by Laurie King, who I already like as an author).
A good chunk of the afternoon, though, went to
solarbird and risu both doing deep massage work on my back and hips. Said portions of my person have been giving me hell all week, thanks to lying around being ill... though I think part of it is also crankiness that's built up for months since breaking my arm. Between that and burning through a lot of stored-up calories with this illness, I'm pretty exhausted tonight as I write this.I've played more Nethack, though... and Slashem, too, now that I've installed it on lodestone so I can flip back and forth between them with ease. I am amusing myself with the differences between the two games, and am particularly amused at Slashem having firearms, an Undead Slayer class, and Vampires as an available player race.
And I've started work on the very last chapter of the book. Contrary to previous commentary to
wingedelf I will definitely be hitting 86K... I hit 85K pretty easily tonight and have barely covered what I want in this chapter. A hot soak now, and then bed.
Written tonight: 1,010
Chapter 23 total: 1,010
Story total: 85,019
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Date: 2004-01-26 12:31 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-01-26 08:54 am (UTC)And thanks, re: the word count! I'm close enough to the end that I can taste it!
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Date: 2004-01-26 06:04 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-01-26 07:23 am (UTC)I... think I forgot about it. :) It was a Borders card, as I recall, and the only Borders I know about locally is downtown, and I haven't been downtown in ages!
Consequence of arm breakage and being preoccupied with the job and all! *blush*
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Date: 2004-01-26 09:59 pm (UTC)Isn't Laurie King the author of The Beekeeper's Apprentice? I remember liking that, when I read it several years ago.
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Date: 2004-01-26 10:03 pm (UTC)And yes, that's the very same Laurie King! The Beekeeper's Apprentice was what introduced me to her, and I am in fact reading Justice Hall, the sixth of the Mary Russell/Sherlock Holmes series, this week. The other series of hers I've started is the one that starts with Night Work and continues with With Child... if I recall correctly the heroine's name is Kate Martinelli. I'd have to doublecheck.
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Date: 2004-01-27 05:36 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-01-27 06:48 pm (UTC)Thanks, about MY book, though! Meep!