Mid-August 2024 - deep into hammock season
and I'm back making collages
Hi Everyone,
Final edit for The Lost Star Chart are complete and all I need to do now is the formatting. Other than that, I haven’t been doing much writing (I’ll get back to it in September). Instead I’ve been gardening and reading in my hammock in all my spare time.
Some new ideas are floating around in my head—I’m only taking notes at this stage, but they could morph into interesting stories.
Did you ever read any of the Choose Your Own Adventure books?
As a kid, I loved these. I took as many as I could from the library and read through them multiple times making different choices each time (my goal always was to find the shortest path to an ending).
They seem to be still in print, as my local book shop has a whole shelf of them. I suspect re-reading them now will reduce their magic in my memory.
But I did stumble upon an adult book along the same lines: Thousand Year Old Vampire by Tim Hutchings and it’s a shockingly pretty book. It’s a solo-RPG game, but I have the required dice and notebooks, so I can’t wait to get started. Here’s a picture (complete with a couple of books I found at a junk shop which are destined to become parts of collages):
I love the collage style (and there are collages through out). On that note, I’ve started making my own collages again.
Even though it is mid-summer here, the books I’ve been reading lately are very cozy.
I finished the Floating Hotel by Grace Curtis about a spacefaring hotel full of intrigue and lovely characters - and I loved it.
Sarah Beth Durst’s The Spellshop was next on the pile. It’s a fantasy where a librarian and her sentient spider plant flee unrest only to end up creating a jam shop in their childhood home (I’d like to move there).
Currently, I’m about half-way through Cascade Failure by L.M. Sagas. This is a space opera with a sentient ship and a group of characters who care about each other, so far it’s great and I really like its cover.
What are you reading?
Cheers,
Jeannette
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