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I just noticed that LJ has not crossposted my DW entries since this spring. Well, I guess that's a message. This journal's now defunct. If you want to read my entries, I'm at Dreamwidth.

What I'm currently reading:

I'm about halfway through A Very Stable Genius, which is an account of the presidency-so-far of the man currently in the White House written by two Washington Post investigative reporters, Philip Rucker and Carol Leonnig. I had read a pre-publication excerpt in the WaPo, and decided I wanted to read the book when it came ( Read more... )

As I mentioned a few days ago, I participated in the Minigame: Round 1 flash exchange for video game fandoms. My gift was this delightful Neko Atsume story, which you don't have to actually know the game to enjoy:

First Contact (1948 words) by fayharley
Fandom: ねこあつめ | Neko Atsume: Kitty Collector
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive ( Read more... )

What I've recently finished reading:

I finished The Westerosi by
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I wrote a pinch hit for Smut 4 Smut, the exchange which sprang up this year to take the place of Smutswap; partly because I hadn't written anything rated over T in well over a year and wanted to see if I still could, and partly because I really liked
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I don't know if this is limited to US listeners only, but in honor of Independent Bookstore Day, Libro.fm (which is affiliated with Powell's) is offering two free audiobooks: Wanderlust, USA by Flula Borg, and On Cats by Charles Bukowski. You need to create an account and use their app and apparently the app is not required.

ETA: I listened to ( Read more... )

In general reads news, the 2020 SYNC Audiobooks for Teens lineup has been announced. The first downloads will become available April 30th. This year, however, they're using a new app called Sora, rather than Overdrive, and honestly I'm not sure I'm going to do it because I've got enough damn apps for books and audiobooks, and I don't like ( Read more... )

I've periodically mentioned Underwood & Flinch, a series of novels written and performed for podcast by Mike Bennett that I've been following for a couple of years now. He's made the original novel free as e-book on Amazon for today and Monday ( Read more... )

I've been enjoying reading people's responses to these, so here are mine.

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