2022 romance, first of a trilogy. Delilah got out of the tiny Oregon town of Bright Falls the instant she could, building an art-photography career in New York and leaving her perfect stepsister Astrid with the rest of the Mean Girls. But now Astrid is getting married and wants to employ her as photographer, and Delilah could really use the money…
1991 SF, second of its series. "Star" Svensdotter, having finished supervising the construction of the first L5 habitat, is now taking a small fleet to the Belt to try to secure a more reliable supply of materials for the second.
I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved permuting integers and searching lists. (Note that this ends today.)
Back to the boardgame café.
1978 comedy anthology, consisting of Mortimer's adaptations of his own scripts from the first season of the television series. Rumpole is an ageing barrister who somehow prevails over everything life can throw at him.
Back to the Masonic Hall for a chilly weekend. (Well, in the outside world anyway.)
2014 Ruritanian fantasy short story. Before the events of Daughter of Mystery, Barbara attends the opera while her master the Baron is away.
More gaming with nearby friends.
2013 YA gaslamp fantasy, first of a pair though it stands alone. Emilie is fleeing from her guardians when she stows away on the wrong ship, and finds herself part of an expedition to the world within the world…
I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved string searching and sequence analysis. (Note that this ends today.)
2013 Regency romance novella. Hecuba Jones is stealing back paintings that were to be her inheritance, sold by her uncle. But the younger brother of the Earl catches her… vt Color Me Bad.
In 2024 I went to fewer conventions but got to play a bit more at home.
In 2024 I read 186 books (most novel-length, a few separate novellas and short stories); after a strong start to the year I slowed down a lot later, for no obvious reason.
A friend likes to sum up his year in a set number of words, and I copy this fine idea. "Think of it as a short and un-boastful summary of the year, which nobody is expected to understand all of."