life in progress

The Witches’ Code, Chapter 5: Shading The Truth

By Thinky Wanderer and Llama The grandfather clock in the main hall had just chimed midnight when Tiffany slipped from her temporary quarters, mirror shard tucked against her ribs like treasure. Her bare feet made no sound on the cold stone floors. The ancient building settled around her with the particular creaks and sighs of a place that had housed centuries…

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The Witches’ Code, Chapter 4: Snowdrift Secrets

By Thinky Wanderer and Llama The frost crunched under Tiffany’s boots like broken glass as she followed the other candidates into what had once been the Circle’s prize herb garden. Had once been being the operative phrase, because whatever this was now looked like winter had gotten into a fight with a craft store and lost spectacularly. Every plant wore…

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The Witches’ Code, Chapter 3: The Circle’s Cold Welcome

By Thinky Wanderer and Llama The frost shouldn’t have existed. Tiffany pulled her cloak tighter as the hired cart rounded the final bend, wheels crunching over grass that sparkled with ice crystals in the morning sun. August in Lancre meant herb gardens heavy with blooms and sweat sticking to your back by midday. It definitely didn’t mean your breath puffing…

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The Witches’ Code, Chapter 2: Earache and Insight

By Thinky Wanderer and Llama The pocket mirror tucked against Tiffany’s hip warmed slightly as she knocked on Mrs. Pemberton’s door, which was either Dude offering encouragement or her own nervous energy affecting the enchantment. Hard to tell the difference these days. “Oh, thank goodness you’re here.” Mrs. Pemberton opened the door before the second knock, her graying hair escaping…

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The Witches’ Code, Chapter 1: The Failing Familiar

By Thinky Wanderer and Llama The lavender wouldn’t stop judging her. Tiffany Clearwater knelt in the herb garden behind her cottage, surrounded by neat rows of plants that her grandmother had tended for decades before her. The lavender stalks swayed in the evening breeze like disapproving aunts, while the rosemary practically bristled with smugness. Even the mint — which grew…

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Becky Chambers: The long way to a small, angry planet

Toto je taká dovolenková netradičná sci-fi kniha, ktorá popisuje vesmír, v ktorom by sa nám mohlo celkom dobre žiť. Je v nej málo boja, málo morálnych dilem, ale veľa pozorovania rôznorodých vzťahov. A práve tá rôznorodosť je zaujímavá. Na mojom to-read zozname sa ocitla, keď som si niekde prečítala, že autorka používa neutrálne zámená (xe, namiesto he a she) a…

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Computational Blood Cell Mechanics

Trvalo to skoro dva roky, kým sa toto bejby dostalo od nápadu sem a na Amazon. Práce na nej bolo dosť, ale bola som milo prekvapená hladkou spoluprácou s vydavateľstvom.Aj by som povedala, že teraz bude od písania prestávka, ale nebude, lebo mám podpísanú zmluvu na ďalšiu, tentokrát učebnicu.

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Checklist manifesto

Atul Gawande: Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right (moja knižka dokonca s autogramom autora) Tak takto. To, že som divná sme vedeli. Ale že až natoľko, že budem čítať knihu o kontrolných(?) zoznamoch(!)… to neviem, či sme vedeli. A hmm… celkom sa mi to páčilo(?!). Ono ale povedzme si rovno: nejako veľa času tejto knihe venovať netreba (jedno nedeľné popoludnie)……

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Víkendové surfovanie

mojej sesternici vyšla knižka v sobotu večer sme s Mišom pri živej hudbe popíjali vínko u bývalého Mišovho spolužiaka: nie sú lacní, ale bolo to veľmi príjemné tak a po týchto reklamách očakávané linky: výzva pre slovenských novinárov I don’t know how she does it (táto veta aj mňa dosť vytáča) I don’t know how she does it. I don’t know…

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