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This weekend I:
- did some Christmas shopping
- went to the Swedish Christmas Fair, where only a few people addressed me in Swedish
- sang in my chamber choir concert -- the other alto came down with laryngitis and one of the sopranos was in Puerto Vallarta, so our conductor pinch-sang
- unblocked my toilet, which was challenging, because my toilet is weird; however, snaking through the vacuum tube did the job
- sort of watched the Grey Cup (I'm glad Saskatchewan won, based on the sheer number of supporters I was seeing in the streets last week)
- continued to try to tidy
Books read this week:
Kiki Strike: Inside the Shadow City, by Kirsten Miller - I enjoyed very much, especially the how-to bits (tell when someone's lying, tail someone, disguise yourself, spot a fake diamond, see the real New York, be prepared for emergencies...) at the end of most chapters. For some reason I found it rather slow going -- not sure why. But really, who wouldn't love a book about six 12-year-old girls (chemistry whiz, master of disguise, forger/lockpicker, mechanical genius, urban archaeologist, and their fearless leader) fighting crime?
Seven Days to a Brand-New Me, by Ellen Conford
Kitty Takes a Holiday, by Carrie Vaughn (incidentally I have decided I like Kitty Norville much, much more than Rachel Morgan, and going back to Book 4 in that series probably isn't going to help -- shame, I enjoyed the first few, but there you go)
Misc. romances, including The Raven Prince by Elizabeth Hoyt (really fun, and the fairy tale in the epigraphs is a Cupid and Psyche variant, for which I am always a sucker)
- did some Christmas shopping
- went to the Swedish Christmas Fair, where only a few people addressed me in Swedish
- sang in my chamber choir concert -- the other alto came down with laryngitis and one of the sopranos was in Puerto Vallarta, so our conductor pinch-sang
- unblocked my toilet, which was challenging, because my toilet is weird; however, snaking through the vacuum tube did the job
- sort of watched the Grey Cup (I'm glad Saskatchewan won, based on the sheer number of supporters I was seeing in the streets last week)
- continued to try to tidy
Books read this week:
Kiki Strike: Inside the Shadow City, by Kirsten Miller - I enjoyed very much, especially the how-to bits (tell when someone's lying, tail someone, disguise yourself, spot a fake diamond, see the real New York, be prepared for emergencies...) at the end of most chapters. For some reason I found it rather slow going -- not sure why. But really, who wouldn't love a book about six 12-year-old girls (chemistry whiz, master of disguise, forger/lockpicker, mechanical genius, urban archaeologist, and their fearless leader) fighting crime?
Seven Days to a Brand-New Me, by Ellen Conford
Kitty Takes a Holiday, by Carrie Vaughn (incidentally I have decided I like Kitty Norville much, much more than Rachel Morgan, and going back to Book 4 in that series probably isn't going to help -- shame, I enjoyed the first few, but there you go)
Misc. romances, including The Raven Prince by Elizabeth Hoyt (really fun, and the fairy tale in the epigraphs is a Cupid and Psyche variant, for which I am always a sucker)