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Reading Wednesday! Reading always slows down when I'm not at home just because of the way I occupy the space I'm in -- when I'm at home I'm reading at the counter over breakfast (and usually for a few hours before and after), typically either on my Kindle or a hardcopy. I'm not doing anything else except reading (and eating). When I'm in Atlanta -- and this was true in New Orleans as well -- I'm usually on my computer then, so I'm reading in between checking my Tumblr dash, my e-mail, etc. It's less focused. I would really like to actually stick to not being on my computer until after breakfast, but I would have to physically remove my Surface from the dining table and put it somewhere out of reach. Though since I've currently got a spare bedroom, I guess I could set that up as an office. (Right now the dining table serves as my workspace because BIG.) I typically eat all my meals at my computer in my room. Yes, I have a dining table. No, I don't use it for dining. (I will also almost never do anything on the couch -- I hate reading books on the couch or in an armchair or anywhere where I'm not at a desk/table. I use a bookstand for hardbacks.)

What I've just finished reading

Since last week: Music to My Sorrow, Rosemary Edghill and Mercedes Lackey, which wraps up the Bedlam's Bard books -- this was something of an odd one to read, because it is extremely 2005 but in a way that's oddly and disturbingly 2018. (Twitter link, note that my Twitter is locked.)

Other books: The Armies of Daylight, Barbara Hambly; Star Wars: X-Wing: The Krytos Trap and Star Wars: X-Wing: The Bacta War by Michael Stackpole. All rereads, though I haven't read the Stackpole X-wing books in a few years.

What I'm currently reading

The Ladies of Mandrigyn by Barbara Hambly (back on a curated chronological reread, a.k.a., skipping the ones I don't like) and Star Wars: X-Wing: Wraith Squadron by Aaron Allston (reread). And stuff for school.

What I'm reading next

Next books in those series, undoubtedly. Maybe some other stuff, we'll see.

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I missed your birthday, friend! I hope it was good! <3

Thank you hon! It was all right!

it is extremely 2005 but in a way that's oddly and disturbingly 2018.
I AM SO CURIOUS but alas do not have twitter

It's a quote from the book:

By the time they reached the road that led to the Heavenly Grace Business Park, it was a little after eleven o'clock. Traffic was heavy -- all apparently on its way to the concert -- and a lot of the cars had bumper stickers like "Keep America Pure" and "White is Right" on them, and symbols that were almost -- but not quite, of course -- Nazi flags.