Book: Shotgun Sorceress

4. Shotgun Sorceress by Lucy Snyder

Have you ever had one of those moments when you realize that multiple people you know all know a particular person, and you're not entirely sure how it happened? I knew that M and Lucy Snyder went to Clarion together, but until I read the acknowledgements, I didn't fully understand that D & T also know Ms Snyder in more than a "yes, she's one of my favorite authors" way. It was driven home later when a character was given D & T's last name, which I found a tad bit jarring. I suspect others, people who don't know D & T nor their last name, might not find it so weird.

You may recall that I really liked the first book in this series. I like this one as well, but it's a lot less stand-alone. For the most part, I'm okay with that-- I really don't need the typical first chapter that explains what the characters did in the books before-- but the ending was slightly less satisfactory because this book sets up the third book, in a very obvious manner. What's irritating to me is that it doesn't need to; if the last half-page were left off, this book would have a perfectly fine ending, and the last half-page would work pretty well as the opening of the third book. (Well, with a slight re-hash of what happened in this book as a refresher.)

I still highly recommend reading it, though.

Book: Shotgun Sorceress

4. Shotgun Sorceress by Lucy Snyder

Have you ever had one of those moments when you realize that multiple people you know all know a particular person, and you're not entirely sure how it happened? I knew that M and Lucy Snyder went to Clarion together, but until I read the acknowledgements, I didn't fully understand that D & T also know Ms Snyder in more than a "yes, she's one of my favorite authors" way. It was driven home later when a character was given D & T's last name, which I found a tad bit jarring. I suspect others, people who don't know D & T nor their last name, might not find it so weird.

You may recall that I really liked the first book in this series. I like this one as well, but it's a lot less stand-alone. For the most part, I'm okay with that-- I really don't need the typical first chapter that explains what the characters did in the books before-- but the ending was slightly less satisfactory because this book sets up the third book, in a very obvious manner. What's irritating to me is that it doesn't need to; if the last half-page were left off, this book would have a perfectly fine ending, and the last half-page would work pretty well as the opening of the third book. (Well, with a slight re-hash of what happened in this book as a refresher.)

I still highly recommend reading it, though.

Crossing things off my list

Stage 1 of one of my large-scale projects ("Organize my music") is complete. All of my CDs have been ripped to mp3s. (Again; I lost a lot of them in a catastrophic disk failure a few years ago. Stage 2, if you're curious, is backing up all of the ripped mp3s to multiple locations, and is also in-progress, as I've been doing it as I go along.)

I've had the list up on my whiteboard for a year now, and this is the first thing I actually get to cross off.

Also, I have a new icon. I didn't bother to make one of the responsible version, because honestly, I didn't think I'd ever have occasion to use it. Go figure.

Crossing things off my list

Stage 1 of one of my large-scale projects ("Organize my music") is complete. All of my CDs have been ripped to mp3s. (Again; I lost a lot of them in a catastrophic disk failure a few years ago. Stage 2, if you're curious, is backing up all of the ripped mp3s to multiple locations, and is also in-progress, as I've been doing it as I go along.)

I've had the list up on my whiteboard for a year now, and this is the first thing I actually get to cross off.

Also, I have a new icon. I didn't bother to make one of the responsible version, because honestly, I didn't think I'd ever have occasion to use it. Go figure.