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To celebrate River, a beautiful new anthology* edited by Alma Alexander (whose writing I always have a great deal of time for - in fact, I always have time for Alma herself, too), Mary Victoria (who just happens to have a story in that anthology) has a series of guests on her blog. Half of the guests have stories in the anthology, and the other half are a mixture of odds and sods (like me) and really wonderful writers. Mary is alternating odd and sod with good writing and today is odd and sod day. I strongly suggest that you check the earlier entries and the entries still to come - how different writers think about place is very curious and interesting.



*I lost my link to the table of contents. It's a very nice table of contents in a number of ways.

ETA: Thanks to the kindness of the Mary, I now have a link to that lovely table of contents. Go ye and admire!

Five Things

1. I have a Very Important Question. Two Medievalists (who prefer to remain nameless, one of whom may well be me) disagree on whether it's "The Middle Ages is" (ie Middle Ages as collective singular) or "The Middle Ages are" (ie Middle Ages as a plural). Now I'm curious...

2. It's my stepfather's yarhzeit and I have a candle burning. I miss him.

3. I am two chapters into a book about pi - this is quite different to my usual reading, which would be a book about pie. I keep wanting to translate equations into recipes. I see no reason why recipes can't be expressed as quadratic equations and solved.

4. Summer has mysteriously returned.

5. I only have four things left on my must-do list for the day. Lots of crossings-out indicate that I've done a lot of things. This feels very wrong because actually it's been a quiet and lazy day. Obviously I'm contrasting with yesterday.