I read a lot in January and liked a lot of it as well. Some truly marvelous books (which is not what I could say for February & March. More on that in those lists). I also finished my reading for the in-person space opera workshop I was conducting in the middle of the month. […]
Continue ReadingI barely remember July. We were reorganizing our business, repairing a lot of damage that we found, and trying to catch up on work that was due and wasn’t even started. Dean was still in PT…and then our air conditioner decided it would rather spit water at us than cool us down. (This during a […]
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A good reading month. I managed to read a lot of outside stuff while reading manuscripts from students as well. So, I’m back to making time to read for pleasure. It took a while to get there because my schedule has been so hectic, but I’m getting there! I read a lot of fiction, but […]
Continue ReadingBecause I had such a crazy weird hectic 2024, I got behind in posting—and even writing up—my recommended reading lists. I finally jumped ahead and posted October’s earlier this month. I’m nearly done with November’s. But I still needed to catch up on all the good things I read over the summer. I don’t remember […]
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This is the first time in months that I was able to do a lot of reading for pleasure. Yes, I had other things to read and work on, but my time is starting to ease up. Yay! And more yays…I’m keeping this one up in real time. I will be publishing the lists I […]
Continue ReadingStill playing catch-up from our incredibly weird year. I’m not sure it was a bad year, because we got rid of a huge ugly problem in our lives, one we didn’t even know we had until January, and our business is thriving. Dean is healing, and we’ve made some good changes. So the year will […]
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I am finishing this up very late. I saved the articles and books in piles, meaning to finish my recommended reading list as I read. But the events of the spring and early summer prevented me from doing much more than my writing and the work I needed to do to keep my business alive. […]
Continue ReadingWe are slowly getting through what was a very difficult eight months. In addition to Dean’s injury and the shooting at UNLV, we had issues of our own at WMG. A long-time employee turned out to be someone other than who we thought she was. The mess she left behind after her dismissal has been […]
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Yes, yes, this one is late. Yes, it’s filled with December recommendations. The reason it’s late, though, is because I read a lot in December and got behind on recording it. So there’s 3,000 words of recommendations here. And now, you get the introduction I wrote almost 2 months ago… My reading behavior is finally […]
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Well, October is a month that divided itself in half for me and Dean. The month was chugging along just fine when Dean tripped on a 5K (while running a 6-minute mile) and slammed into the concrete, shattering his shoulder. Suddenly we were dealing with doctors and surgery and schedules we hadn’t had before. I […]
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