My Best Friend's Girl

When Charles Stross gives your novel a cover blurb along the lives of "Lesbian necromancers explore a haunted castle in space," I'm going to be interested in your novel. So it's come to pass that I'm about 90 percent through Gideon the Ninth, by Tamsyn Muir. It's rather good, funny at the right times, and it is just wonderfully weird. The sequel is already on hold through Libby.

Demonstrations continue. Today was Good Trouble Tuesday, with Until Freedom organizing a march in south Louisville. Peaceful event, several arrests for blocking a highway.