{"id":541,"date":"2019-07-27T12:25:06","date_gmt":"2019-07-27T17:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ldinmanbooks.com\/?p=541"},"modified":"2019-07-27T12:30:12","modified_gmt":"2019-07-27T17:30:12","slug":"saturday-gallimaufry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ldinmanbooks.com\/index.php\/2019\/07\/27\/saturday-gallimaufry\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday gallimaufry"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Here I am, on a Saturday morning, with cat paralysis, in an idle mood. So here are some idle thoughts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Authors in bagel shops getting coffee<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

It was very fortunate that I was slated to host the book club this month, as I needed some kind of impetus to unearth my kitchen from, let’s be honest, months of neglect. It’s…still a work in progress, but reasonably presentable. Or at least I hope so, because right after that I had a houseguest — my longtime friend, beta reader, and fellow author Erica Smith — for two days of playing with the cat and chilling on the porch with tea (when I wasn’t at work). I did manage to take a selfie of us at the bagel shop, but didn’t get any other pictures — dammit, apparently even a new camera is not enough to remind me of such things. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ah well; Erica and I had some good in-person confab about our respective works in progress, which is what’s really important. And Erica didn’t seem to mind my dubious hospitality, which is as much the mark of a friend as going to a friend’s house and finding they didn’t overclean it for your arrival.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It’s my turn to choose the book club book again come September, so in hopes of finding something new to present, I bought a Kindle copy of The Goblin Emperor<\/em> by Katherine Addison. It was entirely worth the recs I’d seen for it: the story was absorbing from the first moment, emotionally complex, with an intricate world and a fantastical, slightly steampunk-flavored atmosphere. And I read it all in one sitting — or I would have, if my eyes hadn’t given out at 96% at which point I realized I was in desperate need of sleep. I finished it first thing the next morning. This book is not, I fear, the kind of universal crowd-pleaser that To Say Nothing of the Dog<\/em> and Doomsday Book<\/em> (the most recent book club book) were — but then, what is? I may make them read it anyway, and get loaded on wine before it’s time to have the discussion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anyway, thanks to book club my nightstand currently looks like the quintessence of my mental space, so I took a picture of it to use for the category in future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And finally, there was really no contest this morning between going out to run errands and getting out my watercolors. I had an idea of trying to represent what a prayer-light bowl looks like, based on a memory of a dish I used to have and with a tea-light in a different bowl as a guide. The result is not impressive but the color is all right. I may try this again on black paper, which would save me attempting a satisfactory background wash.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And that, I think, is all the news that’s fit to print.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here I am, on a Saturday morning, with cat paralysis, in an idle mood. So here are some idle thoughts. It was very fortunate that I was slated to host the book club this month, as I needed some kind of impetus to unearth my kitchen from, let’s be honest, months of neglect. It’s…still a<\/p>\n

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