The 22 is pretty awesome. There aren't that many buses crossing the city north to south and doing a decent job, but the 22 gets it done.

I definitely will have a look at Bujold, and I think David may have some Novik floating around the house (the house! not shorthand for the apartment, but the actual house!).

I actually left behind the Bujold (Barrayar) because I had finished it before I left. Hec may have done something with it (I had a vague idea that it could go back to Borderlands as though it never left), but if not it may still be sitting in the apartment! It's sort of the second book (or third, but...eh), but I had no trouble with it as my entry point.

having just suffered a full-body sweat

No fun.

The most important thing to do after that is re-hydrate.

Emily! I forgot to say before because I am a bad host, but thank you so much for the watercolors! The teeny tiny one is already framed downstairs.

Glad to know favorite bugs and buses!

Currently reading: Promises Stronger Than Darkness (e-book) and the first Lockwood & Co (audio). And the new Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction came today so I'll need to be starting that

I would like to note that Target had some cute and soft PJs that I was strong-willed enough to not buy yesterday

I'm currently reading my UK hard copy of The Screaming Staircase (first Lockwood & Co. book) while down with a cold. If my attention span degrades further, might just switch to the nine million L&Co. AO3 tabs I have open.

Colds. Dislike.

Listening to it on your rec, I think!

What are other folks reading? Including fic?

Ninth House and its sequel Hell Bent, by Leigh Bardugo, are fucking fantastic. I'm about to start The Remarkable Retirement of Edna Fisher. (Description: "When you're a geriatric armed with nothing but gumption and knitting needles, stopping a sorcerer from wiping out an entire dragon-fighting organization is a tall order. No one understands why 83-year-old Edna Fisher is the Chosen One, destined to save the Knights from a dragon-riding sorcerer bent on their destruction. After all, Edna has never handled a magical weapon, faced down a dragon, or cast a spell. And everyone knows the Council of Wizards always chooses a teenager-like the vengeful girl ready to snatch Edna's destiny from under her nose. Still, Edna leaps at the chance to leave the nursing home. With her son long dead in the Knights' service, she's determined to save dragon-fighters like him and to ensure other mothers don't suffer the same loss she did. But as Edna learns about the abuse in the ranks and the sorcerer's history as a Knight, she questions if it's really the sorcerer that needs stopping-or the Knights she's trying to save.")

I am totally on board for an 83-year-old Chosen One.

Ooh, 83-year-old Chosen One is intriguing!

I got the e-book of Seanan McGuire's Laughter in the Academy a while ago; it's a collection of short (some very short) pieces with, if I remember correctly, each one related to a letter of the alphabet. I bring this up because under "K" some aliens arrive and humans have to prove that they (we) can produce something they will consider worthwhile. Our music and literature are negligible to them, so it's getting dangerous. Then an old woman comes up with her granddaughter and a folding chair and pulls out her yarn and knitting needles. The aliens are impressed. And when they leave, each is wearing a nice warm scarf.