I’ve scored rezzes at Knockaderry for tomorrow night. Jane’s due a steak dinner after finishing her book and this seems the perfect time. Steak and dessert. They do both.
And a happy Valentine’s tomorrow…
by CJ | Feb 13, 2015 | Journal | 24 comments
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Jane has finished her book? Yeah, hooray! Can’t wait for the publication. Happy Valentine’s Day to you and Jane.
Eeeexcellent. I’m surprised you managed reservations on Valentine’s Day; here, almost any sit-down restaurant classier than L&L Drive Inn has been booked for days. You both deserve something nice!
I will be eagerly awaiting Jane’s newest. Happy <3 day to both of you.
That is really good news, after the couple of weeks I’ve had. Ugh, bureaucracatic runaround.
Big congratulations to Jane. I’ll be in line at Closed-Circle.net for the ebook when it’s ready. 🙂
I have Tracker on pre-order for hb and ebook.
I’m nearly 72% through my latest reread of the Pride of Chanur, and I got so wrapped up in the story, I forgot I was supposed to take notes and proof the ebook version. Heh. So I’ve committed myself to a reread to do that.
The little item for small house-elf type persons arrived, and I will look for where I put your address. I apparently didn’t copy it down elsewhere. I ~do~ have your Closed Circle address. I will advise when I’ve got it ready and sent.
Happy Valentine’s to the both of you, and congratulations to Jane on the finished book!
(This is my ‘hello’ note, by the way. Hi.)
MMMM, we closed the CLosed Circle mailbox, just never got any mail. Email me.
I emailed on the 11th; it may have been eaten by gremlins on the way.
I’ve re-sent. If you don’t receive the email, please let me know. 🙂 Thanks.
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I finished my reread of the Pride about an hour ago. Well loved as always. Enjoyed it so much, I forgot I was supposed to be proofing and taking notes. Heh. So I owe a re-reread. (I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve reread the Chanur books. It was longer this time, since last I’d read, though.) I’ll be rereading the rest of the series.
Note that Chanur’s Homecoming is oddly still not out in Kindle ebook format, but now the other four are, but not yet the two omnibus editions. I’m puzzled how they missed Homecoming, but I’d presume it’s in the pipeline. (Or will be, with a nudge from the author and agent. Heh.)
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There’s a new(?)-ish featuer once one has read a Kindle ebook: They suggest books purchased by other readers who’ve bought the book one has just read.
For Pride, this turned up the Carousel series by Sharon Lee. (I’ll confess I’m remiss and haven’t read in the Liaden universe; not sure what else of hers I might’ve read. I haven’t read the Carousel books. — But yours and Jane’s mention of Patty Briggs’ carousel reminded me of this.) Also suggested was a series by Rosemary Kirstein, the Steerswoman series. I checked a sample of the first, so-named Steerswoman book, and hey, the price was not ‘spensive, so it’s now waiting in my virtual stack. From the publ. date on the print edition (pbook? 😉 ) the series first came on in the late 80’s / early 90’s, but I’d never seen it in stores. Looks good, when I get to it in the stack.
You haven’t read the Liaden Universe? Oh my. Here’s a link to Sharon Lee’s suggested order of reading. Some may be read as standalone novels, others benefit from knowledge of the universe.
http://sharonleewriter.com/correct-reading-order/
I had bought what appeared to be the first Liaden book she and her author-partner had written, some while back, and it (and a lot else) have been on my virtual To Read Pile since hten. There’s also a physical To Read Pile. Both are of embarrassingly large pile heights. But I think I’m getting back in the swing of things now.
If you interested in eBooks, Baen is their publisher.
BCS, I still haven’t gotten your e-mail.
I’ll copy what I’d sent into a new email and send again. Darn thing is bound to get there somehow.
I’d emailed around the 11th, then on the 14th re-sent at around 6:30 or 8:30 am. It thinks it was sent, from my end.
wizben2000
I’d replied to your message, so the subject field had Re: comlink: and was BCC’d to me. Possibly, your spam filter didn’t like it?
This has been in the middle of your comptuer problems, and it’s sharing an address back and forth.
I’ve just copied into a new message and sent to both you and Jane.
As well as Valentine’s Day, it’s also the first day of the Cricket World Cup. It’s perhaps a non-event in America, but 1.2 billion viewers around the world are expected to watch. India won the 2011 World Cup.
I almost never watch sport, but the cricket world cup is an exception. 🙂
The matches can take up to 6 hours or more, not including breaks, so it’s a matter of dipping into them occasionally, and watching when they start to get interesting.
The tournament is being played in Australia and New Zealand, and the two host countries won the first two matches in fine form, with New Zealand beating Sri Lanka, and Australia beating England.
Of course I follow the Cricket World Cup! And the Test matches although it’s not that easy to get current results here in Oklahoma and I don’t subscribe to any sports channels.
@ Walt — Thanks so much for that Roger’s Tea recommendation, their Cinnamon Orange Spice tea.
Hah, the pkg. arrived the day before yesterday, but I hadn’t thought it had had enough time to get here, so wasn’t looking for it, and set it aside (in my bedroom) with another package. Then, last night, “Sniff, sniff, funny, I smell fresh-cut wood, fragrant, what am I smelling?” But I didn’t connect it with a possible tea arrival. LOL. I’d wondered if the cats got to something, or if my nose was just acting weird. This morning, though, I checked the boxes. Eureka! TEA! — Oddly, the opened bag doesn’t smell as fragrant as the box. Hmm. — I now have a pitcher of tea steeping. Wonderful, fragrant, flavorful-smelling tea.
If it tastes half as good as it smells, I might have a new favorite.
My usual go-to tea is Bigelow’s Constant Comment, their take on cinnamon-orange-spice tea. I’ll always like it.
This might be better!
My only fuss: It’s shipped in a plastic bag put into a usual cardboard shipping box. I ordered a 1 lb. bag. The bag is crimped, heat-sealed there, so it’s in good shape. But gosh, a resealable bag would be a good idea. They could also sell it in a tin or plastic jar, or the option of the current bag, but resealable. That I can smell the tea might indicate small perforations in the plastic bag, meaning a thicker bag might be better.
Still, looks like a fine product.
I did not have a container handy, so it’s now in three smaller containers. Heh. That’s fine, I’ll get a container for it, and at a pitcher of tea every two or three days, it won’t sit around the full year they recommend for freshness.
Ready to enjoy a fine mug of tea. (Yes, mug; I know, I’m a barbarian.)
Thank you!
You’re very welcome! I don’t use a 5 oz teacup either but a 20 oz / half liter mug. It stays warm quite a while, being a squat cylinder, like a smaller coffee mug. As for my wine glasses, it’s crystal, not literally, clear so I can appreciate the color of the tea or wine. Adding milk, to black tea, is amusing, especially if the tea is swirling, the delightful fractal patterns stealing time from my day but adding kilo-oms to my serenity. (Like Helen of Troy had one kilo-beauty, launching a thousand ships.)
PS: You’re quite right, the packaging is minimal.
If you drink a lot of loose tea, look at second hand shops for the old coffee storage containers with the latching lid; for a while, Gevalia was handing them out like candy. They are fairly impervious to air and moisture. I use one to store sugar, and after 6 months, the sugar is still free flowing, even with Hawaii’s humidity.
@BCS Although I personally love the Carousel series, they are not part of the Liaden universe but rather an Urban fantasy take on earth and sea guardians set in present day Maine. While you might enjoy the books, I suggest you read the Liaden books first as recommended in Tulrose’s posting of the suggested order. (Suggested order is not necessarily published order). Another author you will probably enjoy is Julie Czerneda and her Stratification series.
@ready4more – have you found the Reading Liad blog which is commenting on the series chapter by chapter at the rate of one chapter a day. Not only is this encompassing all of the novels but the chapbooks and short stories, all in chronological sequence. http://pdprojects.info/liadread/2013/05/faq/
It’s also open for comments.
Free snow! Free snow! Get your free snow here!*
*please note: this offer valid for self pick-up only
There’s plenty of it on the ground (4 to 6 feet) and more coming down as I type. They’re predicting a blizzard and a foot or so accumulation here on the New England Coast from this current storm.
Hmm, if that free snow is packed around some good Boston seafood, from one port city to another, hey, I’m in!
(Snow? You mean that white stuff on the ground, sort of like a heavy frost, every five years or so? LOL, that’s about all the snow we get here, this far south.)
Stay warm up there!
Hmm… You really don’t want to know how bad I sounded when I attempted a Boston / Mass. accent, a few years ago, mostly going on memories of Kennedy’s accent plus Charles Emerson Winchester on MASH. — I’d really need to find dialect coaching materials to do that justice. I could do it, but I’d have to really watch myself until I got the accent down, and I’m not used to hearing it in my head like some others.
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I tend more toward the SF side than the fantasy side, and more toward either than other genres, but heck, any fiction suits me. — I’m still not back to my regular reading habits as they were, but I’m picking up speed and frequency again. Heh, there’s a big backlog! Also, my budget does not love me. But…I have this weakness for books. I come by it honestly. Both parents were the kind who could come out of a library or bookstore with an armload of books. 🙂 So I’ll check the Julie Czerneda reference next time I let myself look. 😉
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I just watched the documentary on George Takei. By turns funny and poignant and very personal, a real look into several things that make up who he is. Food for thought in there too, for my personal life.
I’m a great fan of my local library as well as Inter-Library Loan. And now my local library (Tulsa City-County Library) is linked into MOBIUS (Missouri) and Prospector (Colorado) where we can request books from those 2 systems w/o going through ILL. This solves a perpetual budget problem.