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So far, since I declared Bird of Dusk Finished, I revisited its query (Which I think might be short enough now), and attempted a synopsis (Which failed because I'm currently being too insistent on trying to preserve the subplots), and reread a significant chunk of both Serpent Prince and Soldier of the Road inpreparation for actually writing in them. I have, however, spent exactly one day actually writing anything new for it. Granted, that day was a bit of a white heat, and makes me feel good about the project (YAY!). But the rest of the time has been spent... reading. Thinking, and reading some more. Listening to new music. Reading some more. Practicing mandolin a bit guiltily (Because I haven't been enough). And hanging out with my mom.

Finished Treason's Shore, which I found started slower than the first three books but ends VERY satisfactorily. It is a huge-scoped project (I really don't think there are many ways besides Omniscient that a project that sweeping could be made to work), but I think it overall carried itself, and made the points it wanted to make, and told the vivid story full of sea-battles and conflicts of honour very well.

Also just read: Dogs and Goddesses, a fluffy romance with supernatural bits (And I suspect one not-too-important editorial slip that nonetheless distracted me by making me try to hunt back through the book for the first reference to one character's house being "haunted"), Diana Gabaldon's Lord John and the Private Matter (I haven't read any of the Outlander books, so this was really a first taste), another Diana Wynne Jones reread (The Pinhoe Egg), a number of online things, Georgette Heyer's Cousin Kate (A book by a Regency author that can't quite decide if it's a Regency or a Gothic, which makes it somewhat ahrder to really get comfortable with than her others, but isn't as incoherent as I believe Jo Walton described it in her general review of Gothics.) Not sure yet where I'm going next for reading. Right now, it seems most likely it'll be Busman's Honeymoon (As mom and I just watched a play version of Strong Poison - acting sometimes slightly stiff or odd even for the more formal attitude represented, but well scripted and generally good -- and I've read Gaudy Night)

Of course, I've been in the middle of Red Seas Under Red Skies for quite a while... I still remember the parts I did read well enough, but I haven't felt quite in the mood to pursue further.