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stoutfellowOn Thursday, I got a new pair of glasses. They're a bit stronger than my old pair, I think, and they're shaped slightly differently; I'm probably going to take a while getting used to them. But I'm back in action.
Yesterday, I did my taxes. For the first time in some years, I wound up taking the standard deduction rather than itemizing, but will get small to medium refunds, if all goes well.
Today, to reward myself for Achieving Things, I paid a visit to Amazon. I've been feeling a bit nostalgic for a group of writers I enjoyed back in the '70s, so I ordered one book from each of them: Fletcher Knebel's "Night of Camp David" ("Seven Days in May" doesn't seem to be available on Kindle); Morris West's "Shoes of the Fisherman" (I read the Reader's Digest version; the rest of the Vatican Trilogy is also available on Kindle); Irving Wallace's "The Man" (about the first black U.S. President); Arthur Hailey's "Hotel" (not as well known as "Airport", but there was a movie and a short-lived TV series); Leon Uris' "QB VII" (the first book of his I read); Allen Drury's "Advise and Consent" (the series got very polemical by the end, but I recall the first two or three as being pretty good); and James Michener's "Centennial". Wallace and Hailey basically wrote potboilers, and, if the Suck Fairy has struck any of these, those two are the most likely.
I also bought further volumes (hardcopy) of Girl Genius, Schlock Mercenary, and Fables, and the first volume of Saga. A later volume of Saga was a Hugo nominee at the Reno WorldCon, I think, (nope, it was Spokane 2015) and I liked it quite a bit - I think it was my number one choice in its category - but I haven't gotten around to starting the series yet.
Finally, I ordered a couple of nonfiction works: "Censors at Work", by Robert Darnton (recommended by Jo Walton) and "Freedom and Responsibility" by Hilary Bok, aka hilzoy, who was my favorite poster at Obsidian Wings until she retired from blogging. I still have her Twitter feed bookmarked. (OW hasn't been the same since Andy Olmstead died and she and katharine retired, alas.)
So, things to do in my spare time...
ETA: Gaah, I forgot to mention two more e-books: Marc Morris' "The Norman Conquest" and Miles Cameron's "Cold Iron". I don't remember who recommended them, but I put them on the list, so they must have sounded interesting.
Yesterday, I did my taxes. For the first time in some years, I wound up taking the standard deduction rather than itemizing, but will get small to medium refunds, if all goes well.
Today, to reward myself for Achieving Things, I paid a visit to Amazon. I've been feeling a bit nostalgic for a group of writers I enjoyed back in the '70s, so I ordered one book from each of them: Fletcher Knebel's "Night of Camp David" ("Seven Days in May" doesn't seem to be available on Kindle); Morris West's "Shoes of the Fisherman" (I read the Reader's Digest version; the rest of the Vatican Trilogy is also available on Kindle); Irving Wallace's "The Man" (about the first black U.S. President); Arthur Hailey's "Hotel" (not as well known as "Airport", but there was a movie and a short-lived TV series); Leon Uris' "QB VII" (the first book of his I read); Allen Drury's "Advise and Consent" (the series got very polemical by the end, but I recall the first two or three as being pretty good); and James Michener's "Centennial". Wallace and Hailey basically wrote potboilers, and, if the Suck Fairy has struck any of these, those two are the most likely.
I also bought further volumes (hardcopy) of Girl Genius, Schlock Mercenary, and Fables, and the first volume of Saga. A later volume of Saga was a Hugo nominee at the Reno WorldCon, I think, (nope, it was Spokane 2015) and I liked it quite a bit - I think it was my number one choice in its category - but I haven't gotten around to starting the series yet.
Finally, I ordered a couple of nonfiction works: "Censors at Work", by Robert Darnton (recommended by Jo Walton) and "Freedom and Responsibility" by Hilary Bok, aka hilzoy, who was my favorite poster at Obsidian Wings until she retired from blogging. I still have her Twitter feed bookmarked. (OW hasn't been the same since Andy Olmstead died and she and katharine retired, alas.)
So, things to do in my spare time...
ETA: Gaah, I forgot to mention two more e-books: Marc Morris' "The Norman Conquest" and Miles Cameron's "Cold Iron". I don't remember who recommended them, but I put them on the list, so they must have sounded interesting.
