Susan Sto-helit. Because in this world, after everyone panics,

I really liked this one. Strong story, well told, good voices.

It took me a couple of tries to listen it though because Short Trips make me sleepy, as it is Storytime. So I put it on before going asleep but then woke up to the end credits. So asleep me decided to rewind it to the last bit I remembered and have another go, only with the same result. And again. And more. And I think I spent an hour and a half listening to this half hour ish story before I actually decided to stay asleep that time.

It was good when I woke up in the morning and relistened from the beginning though.

I liked that it started as Lost Property and became Lost Person and then resolves found again. It has layers and resonance for 13 and all the things she's been through and is learning about herself. And it has something to say to this agoraphobic listener, about maybe possibly seeing the sky a bit more often. I also liked the stuff it had to say about change and not being afraid of it. And it managed to fit three savings of worlds into one Short Trip. Very well done.

When we went to the duck pond this week there were tiny baby ducks :-D
and the person walking with me had not been to the pond before and made happy awww noises whenever they did a duck like thing :-)

and then I did not write about it at the time because I got home and realised it is the season when I need to wash every bit of me I do not cover well, and then wash it again, and still there will be Itchy Colors. :/

Flowers are VeryGood to look at and LessFun to share air with.

But I am fine really so that's okays.

In the process of stirring the books so the ones I can see and reach are in fact the ones I want to reread
I made enough space there is an empty shelf
but below the edge of the bed, where I am unlikely to check.

So I Pondered, and now down there I have put
all remaining Anita Blake books
and a collection of books where I bought the first one by that author but am unlikely to buy their others.

there's nothing wrong with those books, I'd have sold them if I didn't want them, but I didn't feel inspired to go find what else they wrote.

Or in the case of that book about necromancers and cavaliers I did get them, but as ebooks, and I am not in the fandon even if I can see they're doing something fun.

So. I am probably going to forget what is down there. But what is down there is: assorted things where I didn't get book two on paper. A trilogy I don't really remember. And a series where I have only kept the first nine.



I also got the torch out to find out what the bottom shelf is on the other two cases, and one is the rest of the Neil Gaiman and David Gemmell books.
I may well not need to keep all the Gaiman, considering.

Also, I really need to dust.


I am rereading Ann Leckie Ancillary books now. Just finished the first one and was pondering if I shall start the second before Wait For Shopping Hour. Reckon I shall.

I started and finished Butterfly Effects by Seanan McGuire with only one necessary sleep in the middle.
Mum bought it for me for christmas (pre order, but had to reorder when the pre got cancelled) so she brought it over when it arrived at her house.

I liked the book well. I gave it 4.5 stars on librarything and the half star is because I felt a bit ambivalent about Fixing Things.
Having written and deleted this paragraph a few times I'm now sure the story did a fair working through of its consequences and paid proper attention to the emotions and practicalities in this 'verse and then opened out a new set of stories, so really it's just me having feelings.
It's tricky doing consequences in a fantasy 'verse, if everything is possible sometimes it can feel arbitrary or like only your favourites or the ones with plot armour get their chances. But this story went to visit a whole world built around being able to do what one special character can do in the usual setting, and poked the consequences with a judicious stick, so that's properly built now.

I am as usual inclined to go back to the beginning of at least one of Seanan's series and reread the lot.
They are good reading and the point of view characters are varied and distinctive and would acknowledge my existence as an actual person with thoughts on the inside, which I am appreciating more having tried rereading some other stuff lately.



I think I need to do some things that are not reading soon and for a while.
But this read has been fun.

Good Thing: going for a Nice Walk at this season leads to Many Flowers, including the big flowers tree, which is excellent to see.

Less good: Once I got home I seem to have slept like the entire other half of the clock. I must have been awake a bit in the middle but there was a lot of sleeps. Turns out all that anxiety noise no sleeping demands a catch up I guess.

But walks are good and flowers are good and I felt pretty good after that much walking.
👍🖖🌞