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Sep. 6th, 2023 07:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tracker7I'm going to take a break from Goodreads and Booksirens. The last couple of books I've gotten for review haven't been any fun and were not very good. They're better than anything I've written lately just by virtue of actually existing, but ... yeah. What I said. The collection of Lovecraft mythos detective stories I'm slogging through now is just flat out boring.
On the other hand, Alien: Inferno's Fall is moving along quite nicely, and the Xenomorphs haven't even shown up yet. I got to hear the author, Philippa Ballantine, read from some of her other work at Butcher Cabin Books a while back, and was taken with her writing.
Still reading The Dracula Dossier: Director's Handbook for Night's Black Agents, too. Like any of Ken Hite's work, it's rich and detailed and just goshdarn fun to read. There's a ton of material about Romania, and I wish that I could ask the guys from the MCC game about their potential visits to some of the places and the social and political details discussed in the book.
I hate writing resumes, apropos of nothing. I'm not good at selling myself, I don't know the codes and phrases that automated systems use to select whichever candidate gets through the filter.
Today's Dad's birthday. He's on his way back from somewhere in Missouri, which is somehow appropriate. 76 years old, still acing his physicals and able to wrangle 30 tons of truck and trailer and cargo like it's an extension of himself. Amazing.
On the other hand, Alien: Inferno's Fall is moving along quite nicely, and the Xenomorphs haven't even shown up yet. I got to hear the author, Philippa Ballantine, read from some of her other work at Butcher Cabin Books a while back, and was taken with her writing.
Still reading The Dracula Dossier: Director's Handbook for Night's Black Agents, too. Like any of Ken Hite's work, it's rich and detailed and just goshdarn fun to read. There's a ton of material about Romania, and I wish that I could ask the guys from the MCC game about their potential visits to some of the places and the social and political details discussed in the book.
I hate writing resumes, apropos of nothing. I'm not good at selling myself, I don't know the codes and phrases that automated systems use to select whichever candidate gets through the filter.
Today's Dad's birthday. He's on his way back from somewhere in Missouri, which is somehow appropriate. 76 years old, still acing his physicals and able to wrangle 30 tons of truck and trailer and cargo like it's an extension of himself. Amazing.