4 Non-Blondes reference there for those of us who remember the 90's.
I've just been for another blood test, PA goes hand in hand with other intolerances and deficiencies so they're testing me for various things. I am still coming to terms with adding yet another chronic health condition to the ones I was already coping with. And given the kind of person I am I've been reading all the books on the subject (for which I'll do a review roundup in another post) because of which I've made less headway on WAWAW than I'd have liked. But I'd like to do a review round up there 'soon' too (for a given value of soon). I have, before the wheels fell off, read five books in the WAWAW category so I do have something to say.
On the fiction front I owe the BFS a review for one book and I've been reading books bought recently. On that front I really enjoyed Getting By In Tligolian by Roppotucha Greenberg where the city of Tligol has trains that can travel in time, a benign fishing giant and is ruled by dictators who perform public executions.
And I'm currently reading The Maniac by Benjamin Labatut which has a fantastic opening:
"On the morning of the twenty-fifth of September 1933, the Austrian physicist Paul Ehrenfest walked into Professor Jan Waterink's Pedagogical Institue for Afflicted Children in Amsterdam, shot his fifteen-year-old son, Vassily, in the head, then turned the gun on himself."
I've made progress on BFS Horizons which has suffered somewhat from my health and life issues, but hopefully the delays experienced over the last couple of years will not carry on into the future. Watch this space.
Also my time as one of the judges for the short story competition has now finished with my recommendations given. And I turned in another copyedit for a publisher thus keeping my freelancing ticking over.
So, despite appearances to the contrary, things are slowly beginning to happen again on the writing front.
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