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Fiction books
Rachael Allen. Harley Quinn: Ravenous (e)
Arthur Conan Doyle. The Lost World (re-read)
Colin Forbes. The Leader and the Damned
Jack London. The Scarlet Plague
Dan Moren. The Caledonian Gambit (e)
Evangeline Walton. The Children of Llyr
Evangeline Walton. Prince of Annwn
Evangeline Walton. The Song of Rhiannon

In progress
Hanan al-Shayk. Women of Sand and Myrrh
Arthur Conan Doyle. The Valley of Fear (e) (re-read)
Evangeline Walton. The Island of the Mighty

Non-fiction books in progress
Marc Abrahams. This Is Improbable
Andrew Ford. Try Whistling This: Writings on Music (e)

( short, screen, and stage )
( books bought and borrowed )

Top of the to-read pile
(anthology). Tremontaine: Season One (e)

It's not long until I'll be off to spend Christmas with the family, which means I won't be around the computer much until next week.

So here are some neat links that will be less appropriate when I get back:

Winter Solstice, Camelot Station. A poem by John M. Ford, describing King Arthur's court gathering for Christmas. It's not what I expected from the title (reading scarfman's work has given me strong associations for "Camelot Station", which in this case are inappropriate), but it's utterly fabulous.

Tim Minchin explains why, despite "all of the usual objections", he really likes Christmas. In song.

Simon's Cat discovers snow.

Close harmony a capella group Sixteen Feet attempts "The Twelve Days of Christmas"; half the group quickly loses track of which day they're up to -- and then which song they're singing...

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Best of the season to you (whichever season you celebrate); or if this time of year is nothing special for you, I hope you're not being too badly irritated or inconvenienced by the rest of us. In any case, I wish you a safe and joyful whatever-it-is.