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My my my. Seems there was a shootout across from my laundromat with one guy holed up in one of the empty houses after trying to get into the laundromat itself. Dispatches on FB from the man who held the door against his entry. Massive police presence with dogs and weapons and all neighbourhood schools on lockdown. (The Essex schools I can see but Palmerston? Eight blocks away?) Anyway, they got him handcuffed safely and into custody, so all's well that ends well etc. Wouldn't have gone there today anyway, even if I hadn't gone Monday because rain has kept me in all day, as it did yesterday.
Finished a couple of Bellairs golden age mysteries, one with a note at the beginning warning for period racist language 'which we do not condone' and my word, wasn't there just. Unthinking use of the n word and equivalents, all in the absence of any Black characters. Did a fast reread of Peter's Room, skipping the Gondal parts, because I don't think I've read that one more than twice, if that. Never had much use for Forest's strictures that LARPing inevitably leads to arrested adolescence. Am sure she'd have disapproved of fanfic if she'd known about it: such a waste merely having fun with other people's characters when you could be writing real stories for publication.
Slowly making my way through Seidensticker's Low City, High City, an oddly dry history of Meiji and TaishÅ Tokyo from 1867 to 1923. Rereading Foxglove Summer which I was so sure was a novella that I had a hard time finding it on my shelf. May also reread Abigail, just because. Have also had my own crise de conscience over a book I want that's a 9.99 ebook on amazon and $35 in paperback from Indigo. Indigo is nearly as bad as amazon morally, but it's also Canadian, so Indigo it is.
Finished a couple of Bellairs golden age mysteries, one with a note at the beginning warning for period racist language 'which we do not condone' and my word, wasn't there just. Unthinking use of the n word and equivalents, all in the absence of any Black characters. Did a fast reread of Peter's Room, skipping the Gondal parts, because I don't think I've read that one more than twice, if that. Never had much use for Forest's strictures that LARPing inevitably leads to arrested adolescence. Am sure she'd have disapproved of fanfic if she'd known about it: such a waste merely having fun with other people's characters when you could be writing real stories for publication.
Slowly making my way through Seidensticker's Low City, High City, an oddly dry history of Meiji and TaishÅ Tokyo from 1867 to 1923. Rereading Foxglove Summer which I was so sure was a novella that I had a hard time finding it on my shelf. May also reread Abigail, just because. Have also had my own crise de conscience over a book I want that's a 9.99 ebook on amazon and $35 in paperback from Indigo. Indigo is nearly as bad as amazon morally, but it's also Canadian, so Indigo it is.
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As if fanfic writers don't struggle with their own brains about this enough without outside help. Feh.
Alas for the lack of book buying diversity.
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We don't normally do this, I must say. But the FB commenter who only half-jokingly said 'I blame Trump' may be on to something. When things start going apocalyptic, people crack. Guys are always fighting over nothing down in the entertainment district, it's just odd for them to be doing it up at Dupont.
Luckily I heard enough horror stories from real writers to have decided early on that I was never going the pro route. Do not make your hobby your livelihood, and all.
Yeah, well, if the worst of my problems is deciding between two skeevy booksellers, I'm lucky. If I were mobile, I'd scout out some bricks and mortar places to order it for me.
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