What I read this month

Way more both tried out and finished this month. Behold: ReadTriggers – Robert J. SawyerThe Dreaming Place – Charles de LintCalculating God – Robert J. SawyerSkyhunter – Marie Lu (audiobook)Paperjack – Charles de Lint Started and stoppedThe 100 – Kass Morgan (audiobook)Infinity: Chronicles of Nick – Sherilynn Kenyon (audiobook)Michael Vey: The Prisoner of Cell 25…

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Forward momentum

I’ve recently mentioned my looking at getting into voiceover work (he says, determined to go with one spelling for “voiceover” and stick with it, and it looks best to me as one word). That’s still happening. It’s just been in a bit of a holding pattern over my wanting to approach it the best way…

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What I read this month

Another bit of a stop-and-start month for reading, largely thanks to stopping a book I was enjoying but was on the cusp of not enjoying, then finding an unexpected gem at a thrift store, then having to put that one on pause when a library book I’d put on hold showed up. Here’s how it…

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RIP Sinead O’Connor

Just heard about Sinead O’Connor’s untimely death. She stood up for black musicians before they were officially recognized at award ceremonies. When told by her record label that she shouldn’t leak that she had a baby because it didn’t make for good optics, she looped her child’s onesie through her belt for her next public…

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What I read this month

A marked improvement over last month, I’m happy to say. Started and stoppedHorus Rising – Dan Abnett ReadingThe Golem and the Jinni – Helene WeckerSavage Sword of Conan compendium Again, nothing I actually finished this month — that’s becoming a more common trend, which I’m not thrilled with — but I picked up and got…

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Too many people like shooting the messenger

The LCBO (Liquor Control Board of Ontario) is the provincially-owned company that, until relatively recently, was the only place in the province you could legally get wine and booze. And it remains the only place to get the latter. The company has always supplied paper bags of various sizes for your various sizes of purchases….

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