between the rock and the cold, cold sea

Log: 12km exercise bike in 30:30, benchpress 3x10 @20kg, bicep curl 4x5 @10kg/arm, back extensions 3x10, lat raises 3x12 @5kg/arm, faily attempt at chin-ups (perhaps one whole wobbly chinner, not sure), treadmill 1 mile in 14 minutes, intervals (pathetic, will have to relearn how to run), six minutes crosstrainer, 500m rowing machine.

Mass: 102.7-103.4kg.

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Books 2013: 12-24


12-22. Kerry Greenwood, Blood And Circuses (1994), Ruddy Gore (1995), Urn Burial (1996), Raisins and Almonds (1997), Death Before Wicket (1999), Away With the Fairies (2001), Murder in Montparnasse (2002), The Castlemaine Murders (2003), Queen of the Flowers (2004), Death By Water (2005), Murder in the Dark (2006). Ebooks.

Cosy mysteries starring the Hon. Phryne Fisher. Readable, undemanding, pleasantly period and wish-fulfillment.


23. Deb Taber, Necessary Ill. Aqueduct Press, 2013. Forthcoming, copy courtesy of Aqueduct Press.

Review forthcoming, I hope, from Tor.com. An interesting if somewhat odd science-fictional novel.


24. Aliette de Bodard, On a Red Station, Drifting. Immersion Press, 2012.

Marvelous, delightful space opera novelette. Dear world: please read this and put it on awards ballots, kthnx.

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If I read anything else, I've forgotten. Have an interesting link:

Everything Is Nice on "A Worm In The Well".

Books 2013: 4-8

4-8. Kerry Greenwood, Cocaine Blues, Flying Too High, Murder on the Ballarat Train, Death at Victoria Dock and The Green Mill Murder. Ebooks.

Pleasantly, eucatastrophic mysteries set in 1920s Melbourne Australia, starring the Hon. Miss Phryne Fisher, Lady Detective, an independently wealthy woman whose confidence and savoir-faire (and fashion sense, and beauty, and interesting friends) make her a wish-fulfillment fantasy in the best possible way.

Entertainingly light.

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I am home from Berlin. Not leaving house for a while, I think. Ohgodsomuchtodostill.