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I just tallied up next week. It was a mistake.

I have everything I usually have (except my gentle folkdancing - I just rang to cancel that), plus my echocardiogram on Monday, five hours at the eye clinic straight after teaching on Wednesday (a friend was worried about the fact that I only just had time to get from teaching to the eye clinic and she thinks that lunch ought to come into my day, so she's picking me up and we're going to hospital via a cafe), my next root canal appointment on Thursday and Passover preparations throughout.

This is where I'm very thankful I can read again (however slowly) and that awesome folks have been so generous on the book front. Today's books are by the kindness of Lynn Viehl and Matthew - Matthew let me borrow Red Queen and Lynn drew my name out of a hat for an ARC and sent the book airmail - and she wrote me the loveliest note.

I walked into a pole on the way home from teaching, reading her book. This was only partly due to my limited vision. Most of it was due to it being so much more important to find out what happened next than to check where I was going.

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Simon Petrie's book Rare Unsigned Copies was launched tonight, at the CSFG meeting. After Simon had personalised our copies he announced that he hadn't actually used his signature so as not to put the lie to the cover name. I asked Tycho to sign mine (using a real signature) - the dedication is to him, so it was a fair request.

I now have the only signed copy of Rare Unsigned Copies currently in existence.

It's a very funny book. I can say this without any bias, since Simon's probably not speaking to me...