The Nameless Land by Kate Elliott
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ladybusinessI'm pretty stoked that I finished a series I started the same year I started it. Don't look at the fact it's only two books. It still counts, okay!? ( Read more... )
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Nov. 10th, 2025 07:37 pmlycomingstThe questions were originally suggested by newagebastard.
1. What’s harder to live without, chocolate or alcohol?
I probably like my glass of wine with dinner more.
2. Does the color yellow remind you of anything?
Spring, daffodils, brightness.
3. Who most annoyed you last week?
Democrats who folded.
4. Do you have a cutesy romantic nickname for your partner (or previous partners)?
I sometimes call the cats "honbuns".
5. What is your favorite Stephen King movie?
I've only seen one that I know of. I'm not a scary movie fan, but I watched the first "IT" miniseries long ago and liked it. Scary enough for me.
It's that time of year when I try to stockpile things I'll need in Nov/Dec, so that the closer I get to the holidays, the less I have to go anywhere. Bathroom necessities, kitty litter, make sure I have cleaning products, food that can go into the freezer. Batten down the hatches.
Thinking of a movie I want to stream on Thanksgiving. Maybe, Nobody 2?
1. What’s harder to live without, chocolate or alcohol?
I probably like my glass of wine with dinner more.
2. Does the color yellow remind you of anything?
Spring, daffodils, brightness.
3. Who most annoyed you last week?
Democrats who folded.
4. Do you have a cutesy romantic nickname for your partner (or previous partners)?
I sometimes call the cats "honbuns".
5. What is your favorite Stephen King movie?
I've only seen one that I know of. I'm not a scary movie fan, but I watched the first "IT" miniseries long ago and liked it. Scary enough for me.
It's that time of year when I try to stockpile things I'll need in Nov/Dec, so that the closer I get to the holidays, the less I have to go anywhere. Bathroom necessities, kitty litter, make sure I have cleaning products, food that can go into the freezer. Batten down the hatches.
Thinking of a movie I want to stream on Thanksgiving. Maybe, Nobody 2?
monday
Nov. 10th, 2025 07:56 pmsummersgateWe had our first snow today. Woke up and there was snow on the vehicles. Candy and I hiked at Two Mile in the morning. Pictures of the woods, skiffs of snow and lots of oak leaves HERE:( Read more... )
It's also a time for ticks. I'm contending with 4 sore and itchy bites right now. I hate them. Underarm, hip, under the knee and on my shoulder - all on the left side of my body. I get the ticks off as soon as they start to bite me but I'm so allergic that I get a big reaction just from the start of a bite. I took benadryl last night hoping I could sleep and maybe it did help. I also drank about 4 ounces of apricot brandy - that might have helped to get me to sleep too. I'm trying witch hazel today to see if that might help. I have something called "anti-itch" cream but that does nothing.
I watched the movie Boyhood (2014) yesterday. It was good. It took 12 years to make the movie because Richard Linklater, the director wanted to have the actors naturally age over the period of time it took for the boy to grow up. Every time they would get together for the next filming session the actors and director would watch the last parts together and come up with the script for the new part. It evolved.
It's also a time for ticks. I'm contending with 4 sore and itchy bites right now. I hate them. Underarm, hip, under the knee and on my shoulder - all on the left side of my body. I get the ticks off as soon as they start to bite me but I'm so allergic that I get a big reaction just from the start of a bite. I took benadryl last night hoping I could sleep and maybe it did help. I also drank about 4 ounces of apricot brandy - that might have helped to get me to sleep too. I'm trying witch hazel today to see if that might help. I have something called "anti-itch" cream but that does nothing.
I watched the movie Boyhood (2014) yesterday. It was good. It took 12 years to make the movie because Richard Linklater, the director wanted to have the actors naturally age over the period of time it took for the boy to grow up. Every time they would get together for the next filming session the actors and director would watch the last parts together and come up with the script for the new part. It evolved.
Book Poll
Nov. 10th, 2025 10:36 amrachelmanijaOpen to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 107
Which of these books would you most like to see reviewed?
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Red Rising, by Pierce Brown. SF dystopia much beloved by many dudes.
13 (12.1%)
Lone Women, by Victor LaValle. Fantastic cross-genre western/historical/horror/fantasy.
28 (26.2%)
The Lout of Count's Family, by Yu Ryeo-Han. Korean isekai novel.
15 (14.0%)
The Haar, by David Sodergren. Cozy/gory/sweet horror about an old Scottish woman and a sea monster.
24 (22.4%)
The Everlasting, by Alix Harrow. Very unusual Arthurian AU time-travel fantasy.
44 (41.1%)
The Buffalo Hunter Hunter, by Stephen Graham Jones. Fantastic historical horror about a Blackfeet vampire.
31 (29.0%)
Best of all Worlds, by Kenneth Oppel. Another absolutely terrible children's survival book, what the hell.
16 (15.0%)
The Age of Miracles, by Karen Thompson Walker. Coming of age at the end of the world; Ray Bradbury vibes but girl-centric.
14 (13.1%)
Surviving the Extremes, by Kenneth Kamler. A doctor for people in extreme climates/situations analyzes their effects on the body.
27 (25.2%)
When the Angels Left the Old Country, by Sacha Lamb. A Jewish demon and angel leave the old country; excellent voice, very Jewish.
41 (38.3%)
An Immense World, by Ed Yong. Outstanding nonfiction about how animals sense the world.
39 (36.4%)
Combat Surgeon: On Iwo Jima with the 27th Marines, by James Vedder. What it says on the box.
10 (9.3%)
Slewfoot, by Brom. Illustrated historical dark fantasy set in early American colonization.
6 (5.6%)
Animals, by Geoff Ryman. Animal zombie horror, at once deeply sad and utterly bonkers.
18 (16.8%)
Anyone read any of these?
#684, Bashō
Nov. 10th, 2025 09:23 amrunpunkrunan early winter shower
a rice paddy with new stubble
darkens just a bit
-1690
Translation by Jane Reichhold.
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a rice paddy with new stubble
darkens just a bit
-1690
Translation by Jane Reichhold.
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Nov. 9th, 2025 10:14 pmkaberettCelebrating. Anniversary. <3
Reading. ( Ravindran, Link, Stocks )
I have also: been skimming a variety of pain-related academic publications, and: printed out not one but TWO translations of Treatise on Man for the coming week's work reading.
Playing. Things!
- Gently pootling along in I Love Hue.
- Inkulinati! Delighted by having made it along the High Combat route on the second map page of my journey with... really minimal damage sustained; also very pleased that having worked through most of the Academy and now having made Progress on my Journey I now have enough of an understanding of mechanics that Proper Shared Activity is viable. (... had a Very satisfying Pushing A Helmeted Dog Off Its Level when it had considerately broken down a neutral gate for me.)
- Fluxx! A particularly ridiculous game, that spent a whole bunch of time Draw 1 Play 1 and then suddenly exploded into Draw 3, Play All, Rich Bonus, Poor Bonus, Party Bonus, and Inflation, among others.
Cooking. Um. Three things from [the Roti King cookbook]9https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/466240/roti-king-by-sugen-gopal/9781837832118)! Surprised by how Very Into the beetroot thingy I was, and the pumpkin stew Grew On Me over the several days we spent eating it.
Also a tomato salad from East, which I was meh about -- but hey, that's one more thing crossed off that particular cookbook list!
Eating. This weekend we have had Many Avocadoes (which are a Special Treat), and also A made me blueberry pancakes for breakfast this morning.
OH and a variety of Things To Share from The Artful Duke in Bromley: macaroni cheese not particularly exciting but also very definitely not Cold Sad Soup, and therefore very welcome; sweetcorn "ribs"; three bean chilli nacho Situation; halloumi fries with hot honey. This occasioned the realisation on my part that "hot honey" is upselling for "sweet chilli sauce", which I find very amusing.
And a big pile of tomatoes my mother sent us home with, along with a chunk of Schwarzbrot :)
Exploring. Bromley "zoo"!
Making & mending. ... I got one of A's mildly problematic fountain pens writing earlier today and then promptly made it stop again. Gonna keep poking at the nib. (Tines were misaligned. Fixed that but/and they are now also a bit too splayed for capillary action to work properly; I think this predated my starting to mess around with it...)
Growing. The Mystery Habanero fruit are getting bigger. I am extremely impatient about how much bigger I need to wait for them to get before I can taste one to see how bad an idea eating it neat was.
All the various patio saffron are coming up, but the trough do not seem to have any interest in flowering this year, so I am going to need to Have A Think about what to do to make them happier. Honestly the answer is probably "buy another bag of bulb compost and bury 'em deeper".
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Nov. 9th, 2025 05:09 pmclauderainsrm posting in therealljidol Writers have until Thursday to get their entries in! therealljidol.dreamwidth.org/1209672.html
But that also means they have until then to get in their accusations on who the Killer(s) is/are! I just had to go back and reread the post where I announced the Killers, because there was a detail I was remembering but It sounded like something I DIDN'T end up implementing. After checking, I was right. It's not a "real" thing... but it might have been fun.
The idea was that the Killers would keep up their roles until the Top 5. Which is still the case. The "extra that got dropped" is that any Killers who made it undetected to the Top 5 automatically won the game! :D Which would have put a LOT more pressure on the rest of you to find them!! As is, it's just that once you get to the Top 5, or you expose all of them, they stop being Killers and resume their normal roles in the game, bleeding back in, and retired from their murderous ways!!
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How is your weekend going?
But that also means they have until then to get in their accusations on who the Killer(s) is/are! I just had to go back and reread the post where I announced the Killers, because there was a detail I was remembering but It sounded like something I DIDN'T end up implementing. After checking, I was right. It's not a "real" thing... but it might have been fun.
The idea was that the Killers would keep up their roles until the Top 5. Which is still the case. The "extra that got dropped" is that any Killers who made it undetected to the Top 5 automatically won the game! :D Which would have put a LOT more pressure on the rest of you to find them!! As is, it's just that once you get to the Top 5, or you expose all of them, they stop being Killers and resume their normal roles in the game, bleeding back in, and retired from their murderous ways!!
***
How is your weekend going?
ursamajorI know, two baking entries in a row, but I really do need to write down my riffs and recipes when I make them so that I actually remember what I did! Especially when I use up the tail end of things I don't always keep in stock. So playing a little bit of catch-up here.
For choir baking this week, I started with Nik Sharma's Spicy Chocolate Chip Hazelnut Cookies, and King Arthur's recommendations for making drop cookies into bars.
( the process of riffage )
( spicy hazelnut ginger bars )
*
I also made Smitten Kitchen's Chocolate Toffee Cookies for the first time in awhile.
( everything is riffs )
( chocolate toffee cookies, modernized )
*
I had a glut of carrots, so I tweaked Serious Eats' Brazilian Carrot Cake recipe to fit a 9x9 pan.
( riff notes )
( carrot cake in a blender )
*
Cramming one last recipe riff in here while I'm thinking about it: yet another choir bake, furikake marshmallow bars. Basically crispy rice cereal treats with added furikake, black sesame, and a little sesame oil.
( furikake marshmallow bars )
For choir baking this week, I started with Nik Sharma's Spicy Chocolate Chip Hazelnut Cookies, and King Arthur's recommendations for making drop cookies into bars.
( the process of riffage )
( spicy hazelnut ginger bars )
*
I also made Smitten Kitchen's Chocolate Toffee Cookies for the first time in awhile.
( everything is riffs )
( chocolate toffee cookies, modernized )
*
I had a glut of carrots, so I tweaked Serious Eats' Brazilian Carrot Cake recipe to fit a 9x9 pan.
( riff notes )
( carrot cake in a blender )
*
Cramming one last recipe riff in here while I'm thinking about it: yet another choir bake, furikake marshmallow bars. Basically crispy rice cereal treats with added furikake, black sesame, and a little sesame oil.
( furikake marshmallow bars )
Strange Houses, by Uketsu
Nov. 9th, 2025 10:25 amrachelmanija
This is such a fun, unique book. The opening grabs you immediately: Uketsu shows an architect friend the floor plan of a house that his friends are considering buying. The architect spots a number of odd elements that aren't just bad planning, but suggest a very carefully planned and bizarre MURDER HOUSE!
The floor plan of that house and two more come into play repeatedly as Uketsu and his friend investigate, unraveling a truly weird and sometimes spooky mystery via a series of interviews. This book breaks all sorts of rules - it's entirely told rather than shown, a lot of it is exposition, the author appears as a character, and that's not even mentioning the very large role that floor plans play - and I could not put it down.
Is the solution to the mystery absolutely nuts? Sure. Is the book a whole lot of fun to read? Absolutely. Will I recommend it to my customers? You bet!
Translated from the Japanese by Jim Rion, who has a nice afterword about translating it.
Apparently Uketsu is a Japanese YouTuber who only appears wearing a mask, like Chuck Tingle if his thing was drawings and creepy mysteries rather than horror and getting pounded in the butt. I can't wait to read Uketsu's other book, Strange Pictures.
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Nov. 9th, 2025 08:30 amsummersgate![IMG_20251108_205745417_HDR[1].jpg](https://ic.pics.livejournal.com/egg_shell/1265782/5465650/5465650_original.jpg "IMG_20251108_205745417_HDR[1].jpg")
I'm liking doing this Charles Wysocki puzzle. 300 pieces and it goes fast. I did most of it last night while I was talking to Kathy on the phone. Looking forward to finishing it sometime today. The last pieces are the easiest and I love when it gets to this stage.
I stapled plastic over the screens on the chicken coop last evening so they won't be getting a draft while they sleep now.
Leaving soon to go shopping with Jules.
American Sirens by Kevin Hazzard
Nov. 9th, 2025 03:20 amaltamira16This is the story of the invention of street medicine.
In Pittsburg, in the 1960s, there was an establishment that was called "Freedom House" that helped black people find jobs. They were approached by a foundation that wanted them to take on a more ambitious project. That more ambitious project involved collaborating with a doctor who was pioneering emergency medicine to do street medicine.
At this point in time, ambulance services were run by the police, the fire department, or funeral homes. The goal was to get people to the hospital as quickly as possible. No one necessarily rode in the back with the patients to make sure they were okay.
Dr. Peter Safar had read a paper that the breath being exhaled still had quite a bit of oxygen in it, and he invented CPR. He wanted to teach CPR to just about anyone. The medical establishment did not like this because medicine was too special to teach just anyone.
He had bigger dreams of civilians learning even more medicine and riding in specialized ambulances equipped with medical equipment. He took on his first class of civilians in the late 1960s and trained them for nine months and let them serve the black community in a part of Pittsburg. At this point, that community started to receive better care than everyone else in Pittsburg.
Then, Pittsburg elects a populist mayor who is trying to cut government and feels a bit Trumpian. Mayor Peter Flaherty wanted to give the money to the police, even though the police had a lot less medical training.
A new doctor is brought in to run Freedom House, and she trains them even further. She goes on to write the curriculum that is used by paramedics around the country.
The story in this book revolves around three central characters. John Moon is one of the paramedics who works at Freedom House. Doctor Peter Safar is a pioneer in anesthesiology and emergency medicine. He saw Narcan being used to reverse anesthesia, and he decided to try it on overdoses in the early 1970s. I didn't realize Narcan had been around that long. Doctor Nancy Caroline comes in to run Freedom House, during Flaherty's tenure as mayor, and writes the training material used for all paramedics, and then goes on to do some disaster medicine around the world.
This book was excellent.
There is also a Netflix documentary about this.
In Pittsburg, in the 1960s, there was an establishment that was called "Freedom House" that helped black people find jobs. They were approached by a foundation that wanted them to take on a more ambitious project. That more ambitious project involved collaborating with a doctor who was pioneering emergency medicine to do street medicine.
At this point in time, ambulance services were run by the police, the fire department, or funeral homes. The goal was to get people to the hospital as quickly as possible. No one necessarily rode in the back with the patients to make sure they were okay.
Dr. Peter Safar had read a paper that the breath being exhaled still had quite a bit of oxygen in it, and he invented CPR. He wanted to teach CPR to just about anyone. The medical establishment did not like this because medicine was too special to teach just anyone.
He had bigger dreams of civilians learning even more medicine and riding in specialized ambulances equipped with medical equipment. He took on his first class of civilians in the late 1960s and trained them for nine months and let them serve the black community in a part of Pittsburg. At this point, that community started to receive better care than everyone else in Pittsburg.
Then, Pittsburg elects a populist mayor who is trying to cut government and feels a bit Trumpian. Mayor Peter Flaherty wanted to give the money to the police, even though the police had a lot less medical training.
A new doctor is brought in to run Freedom House, and she trains them even further. She goes on to write the curriculum that is used by paramedics around the country.
The story in this book revolves around three central characters. John Moon is one of the paramedics who works at Freedom House. Doctor Peter Safar is a pioneer in anesthesiology and emergency medicine. He saw Narcan being used to reverse anesthesia, and he decided to try it on overdoses in the early 1970s. I didn't realize Narcan had been around that long. Doctor Nancy Caroline comes in to run Freedom House, during Flaherty's tenure as mayor, and writes the training material used for all paramedics, and then goes on to do some disaster medicine around the world.
This book was excellent.
There is also a Netflix documentary about this.