Mishmash post: Russian Newsflesh editions, peaches, family news, TBR, impending company, & work
--I just made one of my occasional attempts to figure out if Blackout is out in Russian yet, or if it has a release date. I found no signs of it, but since I don't speak a word of Russian, my technique is basically to pull up the Russian Deadline cover on Amazon.com and do an image search for it, then click links that look like they could be Goodreads-esque review sites, then click the author name to see what comes up. Not the most effective approach, I know, but it's what I've got.
I hope Blackout does come out in Russian eventually--I want to complete my set! (The story here, for those who don't know, is that I love the Russian cover for Feed--see icon--so I bought a copy a while back, and while I actively dislike the Russian cover for Deadline [largely because Shaun looks like a Terminator! I like the background image of Georgia a LOT], I bought it when I found it at a reasonable price because if the Blackout cover is lovely, I'll want a full set.)
--Luck is not with us re: the peaches we picked over the weekend and promptly tucked into paper bags. They're still hard, except for a few that have gone off. :/ Oh, well. We knew it was a risk, picking them when they were so hard. (Hazards of picking on a Sunday afternoon? The trees were weighed down with fruit, all of it hard, and the ground below the trees was covered in downed peaches rotting into the earth. I suspect all of the good fruit had been picked earlier in the weekend.) And we got rather a lot of blueberries out of the venture, plus a quart of yellow plums and a few pears (still [hopefully] ripening).
Happily, we continued to do well with market peaches. I hope there are more when
scruloose goes this weekend.
--It's my sister and her husband's twentieth wedding anniversary this month. O_O Somehow this is a bit alarming even though my niece is starting her second year of university next month and my nephew is starting his first year (AFAIK, at least; the last actual info I had was that he was still looking at schools). So you'd think I'd be used to all these milestones (all of them colored by my brother-in-law being only six months older than me), but no.
--I'm between books and not sure what to start reading next, although while I figure it out I can keep picking away at the mermaid anthology I've been slowly working through and/or the graphic novels I have from the library (three left from the pile I checked out a couple weeks ago). Several books I'm looking forward to just arrived in the mail, but Half Wild is in transit from the library (I'm reading it that way so I don't have to decide whether to buy it in hardback--I have Half Bad in paperback--or wait for the paperback; either way, if I wind up buying the full trilogy, it's yet another mismatched set. Some days I think if I ever switch primarily to ebooks, that will be the deciding factor. I'm SO SICK of mismatched sets). And I want to reread The Winter Long before A Red-Rose Chain comes out on September 1...
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seangaffney arrives tomorrow for his visit, so my time online may be more sporadic than usual this weekend. Or it may not. Our sleep cycles are wildly different, so there'll probably be a few hours each day that I'm asleep while he's up, and vice versa. (Ginny's going to go crash with Kas for the weekend.)
--And now I'm tired and it's past 1 AM, but I'm apparently still hoping to scrape together some wordcount. The odds aren't great, especially since I know I need to get a fair bit of rewriting done tomorrow before I go meet Gaffney downtown; I have both a rewrite (about halfway done) and a lettering check (not started) due on Monday. The lettering check is for Lucifer and the Biscuit Hammer, though, and as I've probably said before, going over the lettered pages when lyschan is the series letterer is about as good as it gets. *^^* (Usually about half of my notes on things she works on are me changing my mind about wording, rather than a comment on the lettering itself.)
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I hope Blackout does come out in Russian eventually--I want to complete my set! (The story here, for those who don't know, is that I love the Russian cover for Feed--see icon--so I bought a copy a while back, and while I actively dislike the Russian cover for Deadline [largely because Shaun looks like a Terminator! I like the background image of Georgia a LOT], I bought it when I found it at a reasonable price because if the Blackout cover is lovely, I'll want a full set.)
--Luck is not with us re: the peaches we picked over the weekend and promptly tucked into paper bags. They're still hard, except for a few that have gone off. :/ Oh, well. We knew it was a risk, picking them when they were so hard. (Hazards of picking on a Sunday afternoon? The trees were weighed down with fruit, all of it hard, and the ground below the trees was covered in downed peaches rotting into the earth. I suspect all of the good fruit had been picked earlier in the weekend.) And we got rather a lot of blueberries out of the venture, plus a quart of yellow plums and a few pears (still [hopefully] ripening).
Happily, we continued to do well with market peaches. I hope there are more when
scruloose goes this weekend.
--It's my sister and her husband's twentieth wedding anniversary this month. O_O Somehow this is a bit alarming even though my niece is starting her second year of university next month and my nephew is starting his first year (AFAIK, at least; the last actual info I had was that he was still looking at schools). So you'd think I'd be used to all these milestones (all of them colored by my brother-in-law being only six months older than me), but no.
--I'm between books and not sure what to start reading next, although while I figure it out I can keep picking away at the mermaid anthology I've been slowly working through and/or the graphic novels I have from the library (three left from the pile I checked out a couple weeks ago). Several books I'm looking forward to just arrived in the mail, but Half Wild is in transit from the library (I'm reading it that way so I don't have to decide whether to buy it in hardback--I have Half Bad in paperback--or wait for the paperback; either way, if I wind up buying the full trilogy, it's yet another mismatched set. Some days I think if I ever switch primarily to ebooks, that will be the deciding factor. I'm SO SICK of mismatched sets). And I want to reread The Winter Long before A Red-Rose Chain comes out on September 1...
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seangaffney arrives tomorrow for his visit, so my time online may be more sporadic than usual this weekend. Or it may not. Our sleep cycles are wildly different, so there'll probably be a few hours each day that I'm asleep while he's up, and vice versa. (Ginny's going to go crash with Kas for the weekend.)
--And now I'm tired and it's past 1 AM, but I'm apparently still hoping to scrape together some wordcount. The odds aren't great, especially since I know I need to get a fair bit of rewriting done tomorrow before I go meet Gaffney downtown; I have both a rewrite (about halfway done) and a lettering check (not started) due on Monday. The lettering check is for Lucifer and the Biscuit Hammer, though, and as I've probably said before, going over the lettered pages when lyschan is the series letterer is about as good as it gets. *^^* (Usually about half of my notes on things she works on are me changing my mind about wording, rather than a comment on the lettering itself.)
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