Daily Reading (June 9th)

[ironed_orchid]

What have you been reading today? Everything counts, from a novel-length fic to the labels on your washing!

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[alexseanchai]

Livechat with an Amazon rep, because my Kindle Fire HD doornailed. :(

Also The Small-Town Pagan's Survival Guide by Bronwen Forbes. AN ACTUAL BOOK WOULD YOU LOOK AT THAT.

[ironed_orchid]

WHOO BOOKS!

[ironed_orchid]

I read the minutes to the Body Corporate's AGM (which I was unable to attend) facebook, some twitter, and am going to try to finish Pocket Apocalypse before I fall asleep. I have less than 100 pages to go, so it is theoretically possible.

[movingfinger]

I'm proofreading-copyediting-editing all at once a book about postcards for a friend. (His great-grandmother's correspondence postcards! They are great! His prose needs... a little work with my hand sander.)

[ironed_orchid]

Good luck with managing the prose without giving offense.

[movingfinger]

We have to have a talk about commas. I know he thinks he is right, and it is his thing, but by gum I am putting them in because otherwise it's just a stream of words without a breath. And hyphens.

He has it all dummied up in Word (I have tried to have talk with him about that too, Word just Suuuuuuucks for this) and only sent me a PDF so it is v v v difficult to read and correct.

He is a very good, longstanding friend and I do not mind.

[ironed_orchid]

Copy editing a PDF sounds like hell. At least with word you can make comments and track changes.

[weaverbird]

Twitter and lots of associated links (it's how I get much of my news), and a bunch of work stuff - Word docs and Excel spreadsheets, plus bookkeeping files, emails etc.

Once the predicted thunderstorms roll in, I'll turn off the computer and read more Howard's End.

[ironed_orchid]

Thunderstorms have to be good for something!

[miss_pavonated]

I just finished The Gunslinger by Stephen King. It was an interesting read, I think I'm going to read book 2 before I pass any judgement either way.

[ironed_orchid]

It's things like this that made a friend decide he was not going to read series books until they were all out.

[nanila]

Lots and lots of Dreamwidth catchup.