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LibraryThing is the most fun and addictive thing ever if, like me, you like to make lists and obsess about books. Luckily you can only catalog 200 books on a free account, so I simply won't allow myself to get a paid account until after I have a more structured work schedule again, in the fall. 200 books -- that's like *one* bookcase, yeah? We've got seven in our tiny apartment, and that's with regular weed-outs.

Speaking of reading, here's my list for July. A bit thin, but with the dissertation/freelancing juggling, what I managed.

The Shadow Lines, Amitav Ghosh
Life Isn't All Ha Ha Hee Hee, Meera Syal
Throne of Jade, Naomi Novik
Paladin of Souls, Lois McMaster Bujold (book group)
Here They Come, Yannick Murphy
Shalimar the Clown, Salman Rushdie
Londonstani, Gautam Malkani

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My building is having a partial power-outage -- some of the circuits are running and some of them aren't. ( Read more... )