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I am now mostly moved into [new location.] There's just my dresser and a few other odds and ends still at the old apartment, and the cat and bird.

Going to wait until Monday before I start pushing on the financial difficulty stuff. This will involve using some of the phone numbers I collected a couple weeks ago. Hopefully I'll be more successful than my initial attempts. I also need to fix the address and phone numbers for my resume and send them to the career services lady.

Right now, I need to do my Amazon Link post. I don't know what theme I might pick this time. Then I have to get to work on the stuff I've been putting off. Like x-posting to Wordpress and other things.

***Cross-posted from Dreamwidth***

I'm currently in the middle of the final clean up/packing/consolidating.

I'm throwing away a lot of stuff and will probably throw away more stuff later. Hopefully my guess that the "flash drive" the paternal unit was talking about is the actual wifi hardware is correct and I won't end up not being able to get back online as quickly as I'd like.

I am tired and currently feeling kind of sick to my stomach. (I've been ill pretty much all week.)

Not much got done this week except for things relevant to moving. Otherwise I spent a lot of time vegetating and making some stabs at writing/reading.

***Cross-posted from Dreamwidth***

"The Delikon" by H.M. Hoover

I saw it at the used book store. It is a book I have skimmed and generally set back on the shelf, mostly because...

1. All-wise super advanced aliens that are not actually able to communicate meaningfully because they are so advanced. (Not because they are alien, because they are advanced.)

Oddly enough, they deliberately alter their appearance and do major brain mods on their officials so they can interact with humans, but somehow, they are still not able to interact.

2. Humans are primitive and violent and aliens decided to conquer them because of the primitive violence when Humans went into space.

3. It is mostly tell and no show. Lots of massive info dumping, almost no characterization. Not that I have much sympathy for any of the characters.

4. The beginning and ending are the same and the bits I've read of the middle doesn't say why. Just, "there was all this turmoil but nothing changed and no one learned anything."

***Cross-posted from Dreamwidth***

I was sick to my stomach a lot of yesterday and also most of today. My guts were very much not happy with me.

Today I was able to get get rid of the books I didn't want to take. I got rid of some of them at the used book store in exchange for store credit, and the rest went to the book drop. I got a couple of extra boxes. Next I need to pack the last of the things and start cleaning up.

***Cross-posted from Dreamwidth***

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And They Say I've Got Talent [Explicit]
Tom Smith 
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Price: $8.99
Tom Smith is one of my favorite Filk musicians.




All Things Bright And Beautiful
Owl City
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I am completely hooked on Owl City. The lyrics are amazing and I really love the music.



Best. Concert. Ever. [Audio CD/DVD]
Jonathan Coulton
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Jonathon Coulton is another favorite musician of mine!





Stardust County
Nancy Louise Freeman (Artist) 
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I have seen this performed live and it is absolutely amazing. Surreal fantasy featuring the adventures of a girl named Nimue (everyone calls her John) and her werewolf boyfriend as they tangle with an evil Sheriff  and Rosa Fey, the Queen of Clubs and Diamonds.


Blues for Dumuzi
Nancy Louise Freeman (Artist)
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There are some great songs on this album!





Silver
Boiled In Lead
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Boiled in Lead is one of my favorite relatively obscure bands.






Mischief [Explicit]
S. J. Tucker
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S.J. Tucker has some great lyrics and a lovely singing voice.

Mirror Sword and Shadow Prince is the second book of the Tales of the Magitama series, and takes place many centuries after the events of Dragon Sword and Wind Child.

We are first introduced to a girl named Toko Tachibana, and her adopted brother Oguna. Toko’s family are the guardians of one of four (originally five) powerful “magatama,” magical stones that had originally been strung on a necklace belonging to a goddess. Toko is very close to her adopted brother, and a great deal of the opening action revolves around Toko trying to get her parents to let Oguna take part in family-only rituals he can’t be involved in because he’s adopted.

This story wanders quite a bit and seems to have some problem getting anywhere. ***Cross-posted from Dreamwidth***

Fandom: Heralds of Valdemar
Characters: Original
Summary: A Companion's Choice is not a risk-free process.

In which we see that sometimes Companions screw up big time, and the Heralds have to find a way to salvage the resulting disaster. Our Heroine is a good example of when the best intentions cause trauma and the Chosen she's called in to help (and his sister) is another. 

Karita was aware of the Dean's presence outside her door long before the man steeled himself into tapping on it with the fingers of one hand. He never did knock; he always tapped. It was an idiosyncrasy, to go with Karita's idiosyncrasy of ignoring people until they went ahead and made their presence known like anyone with a decent grasp of manners.


***Cross-posted from Dreamwidth***

I have thrown out some more stuff. The cat has no idea of what's going on and is displeased that I have removed several of her hiding places. The big move will be on Friday and Saturday.

I have also been forbidden to write anything at all about the family or the house. :\ Which may or may not mean that I can't use my web cam for the V-Log that I had planned. Which may or may not also mean that I can't talk about my day to day life on my blogs. I am extremely not happy about this.

***Cross-posted from Dreamwidth***

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The Course of Empire, by Eric Flint and K.D. Wentworth
Price: $7.99
 The Course of Empire borrows from two staples of science fiction of the military SF persuasion. One is the story of Occupied Earth, where a successful invasion by aliens results in drastic social changes and desperate rebellion. The other story is the one where humans get used by the aliens as soldiers in a war with yet another group of aliens. (With a possible third from the storyline that goes “once upon a time there was an alien race used by another alien race as slave-soldiers, but then the soldiers rebelled and Stuff Happened.”)

Read the review here.

Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor
Price: $12.23
Akata Witch reminds me a little bit of both Harry Potter and the Young Wizards series. It manages to do this despite the part where Akata Witch is not actually like either except in the very vaguest ways. (I have to say some of it also reminds me of Nina Kiriki Hoffman’s books.) This book is one of your “young person discovers that magic exists and learns to use it, being moderately to extremely heroic along the way,” type novels and is atypically typical of the subgenre.

Read the review here


Spirits That Walk in Shadow by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
Price: 8.99 (kindle)

In this book we are reintroduced to Jaimie Locke, one of the minor characters from The Thread That Binds the Bones. She is still in recovery from having been trained to be evil by her previous teacher. (She more or less indicates this on a number of occasions.)

Read the review here

Heartless by Gail Carriger
Price: $7.99
In Heartless, Alexia and her husband have mended their fences and now they have to figure out how to keep the vampires from continuing their vendetta against Alexia and her not-yet-born infant-inconvenience. The solution presents itself in the form of Akeldama stepping forward with an offer to adopt the baby (thus assuring that the scary monster baby has a proper upbringing). Of course, this creates a new batch of problems involving Conall’s pack having to move into the city. (Alexia might have very little in the way of maternal feelings, but she does feel a certain amount of interest in the results of her pregnancy.)

Read the review here.


The King of Attolia by Megan Whalen Turner
Price: $6.80
In The King of Attolia, Eugenides has to figure out how to be king, when all he wanted was the queen. (Unfortunately, the queen and the gods are not letting poor Eugenides off the hook.) The Queen of Attolia’s subjects aren’t very enthused by the idea of Eugenides being their king and proceed to cause him a great deal of grief. The palace staff and even his attendants are harassing him, the nobility is on the very edge of insurrection, and there are conspiracies and assassins everywhere. On top of all that, Eugenides must also get used to being married to the woman he loves, who is also the Woman Who Did Very Bad Things to Him in A Very Public Way. (Eugenides and Irene have an extremely complicated and slightly frightening relationship.)

Read the review here


Discount Armageddon by Seanan McGuire
Price: $7.99
This is the first book in a new urban fantasy series, InCryptid. It has a much more humorous tone than the grittier and darker Toby Daye novels and has a few romantic sub plots worked into both the main story and the back story. It is about a family of cryptozoologists whose ancestors decamped from a monster hunting organization known as the Covenant of St. George. The Covenant believes that all “unnatural” creatures should be exterminated, but the Prices believe they should be studied, and only hunted down if individuals prey on humans.
Read the review here