Once more...

[heliopausa]

Once again, back after time away - and doubtless having missed much.  :(  Lots of my life (including pretty well all of those good intentions/resolutions which I started the year with) went by the board in the last few weeks - as well as all your posts on LJ/DW, and any new stories which might be out there.  I'll look forward to reading it all, and profiting from everyone's recorded wisdom and creativity!

In terms of writing, I came back to find a sudden flurry ( a small flurry, but very welcome!) of reviews and kudos on AO3, especially for The Ivory Merchants, but also for one or two others - this was beautifully cheering to find!  and I hope will help me restart writing before the year gets too old.

There's been quite a bit of tough stuff happening, but  good things have happened, too, while I was travelling.  One was lots of good reading, viz.: 

• I'm now about  half-way through War and Peace (which means I can start to read moon_custafer 's posts on W&P, too!)  and
• one day I made a lightning raid on Abbey's Bookshop in Sydney, to snatch as many books as I could of my Books I'd Like To Read list - eight, in total, I think, and
• as has happened before, while staying in other people's houses I read great things from their bookshelves, including a SF Classic that everyone but me read years ago.  :)

So that's all good, and will be posted about soon!
 
Meantime, here's from Australia, about the glorious night sky, and the dark constellation which is now riding high in the south.

Comments

[autumnia]

How are you finding War and Peace? Long and dreary or very exciting? Is it better than Les Miserables? :-)

I don't think there's much been going on these days on LJ/DW. It's been pretty quiet lately.

[edenfalling]

There was a Narnia fic rec post that went around some parts of Tumblr in late Jan/early Feb, which included "The Ivory Merchants", so perhaps that is the source of your comments and kudos!

(I keep meaning to read that story and then getting distracted by other things. The lure of the new and shiny is dangerously strong. *sigh* But someday!)

[transposable_element]

Good to see you! I have also been largely absent but am trying to get back in the swing of things.