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There’s a certain slant of light

This is the best description of the feeling that comes upon one around this time of year and lasts until about March. Not that this summer wins any prizes for being great, but at least it was light out.

There’s a certain slant of light,
On winter afternoons,
That oppresses, like the weight
Of cathedral tunes.

Heavenly hurt it gives us;
We can find no scar,
But internal difference
Where the meanings are.

None may teach it anything,
‘T is the seal, despair,—
An imperial affliction
Sent us of the air.

When it comes, the landscape listens,
Shadows hold their breath;
When it goes, ‘t is like the distance
On the look of death.

–Emily Dickinson

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Cloudy

Spring weather is here, but I’m still not sure where I packed my umbrella. It’ll show up eventually. I would just like to say that professional movers are a great investment. I was cursing my book-loving habits while packing my books, even though I’d already pared down my collection several times over the past few years. I try to hold on only to things are extremely unique, such as my Cornish textbook. Now that strong men have carried them to my new apartment, I am back to loving books. And maybe one of these days I finally will learn Cornish!

I’ve been chalking up the life stress inventory events over the past few weeks here, so pardon me if I do things like forget to update my credit card information with my registrar so my domain name goes away for a day. All is well again, as you see.

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New Book Review 9/1

Just had another book review published in Library Journal. This one is for a book I highly recommend: The Poison King by Adrienne Mayor. However I will add that if you aren’t up on your Alexander the Great, it could be a bit confusing.

I’m pretty pleased with this review, because it was published almost exactly as I wrote it (plus I loved the book). Hopefully that means I’m getting the style closer to what they want. Learning to write for the style of a particular publication seems to be a more useful skill than, say, blogging. But maybe that’s not true with layoffs and buyouts in print media these days.