50bookchallenge, 15000pages

Book #148 -- Ellen Kushner and Delia Sherman, The Fall of the Kings, 476 pages

This is the sequel to Swordspoint that I put off reading for so long because I didn't want to have to deal with a setting in which Alec and Richard were old and dead. And indeed, it was hard. I am *so* attached to those characters that the mention of them in past tense was difficult to deal with. And this was a somewhat more depressing book than Swordspoint as well. Although it was certainly very very good. There's a third book out now that I think will be easier, since Alec and Richard appear in it. And of course there's lots more that is hinted to in the backstories that I would love to see Ellen and/or Delia write about.

Progress toward goals: 352/365 = 96.4%

Books: 148/150 = 98.7%

Pages: 42347/50000 = 84.7%

2007 Book List

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Sleep: 11pm to 2am, 3am to 4:30am, 7am to 10am

Pain: 7-8

Weather: clear, 62F, 51% humidity, high 62F

Daily BPAL: HAUNTED HOUSE 2007: THE FORBIDDING FOYER
Description: The faint scent of brimstone, ghostly breath laced with cognac, neglected mahogany panels, and rot.
In bottle: Rotted wood, an afterscent of brimstone and a hint of cognac.
On me: The same, only stronger. Kinda neat.

Daily Tarot: Ace of Pentacles, Reversed: Miserliness, greed. A false start. Comfortable material conditions, which may not be to the advantage of the Querent.

Reading:
Lives of Themistocles, Pericles, Aristides, Alcibiades, and Coriolanus, Demosthenes, and Cicero, Caesar and Antony by Plutarch
The Sorcerer's Crossing: A Woman's Journey by Taisha Abelar
The Sonnets by William Shakespeare
The Children of God by Mary Doria Russell
Snow by Tracy Lynn

But Westley, what about the ROUSs?

Rodents of Unusual Size? I don't think they exist.

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