Tuesday, May 20, 2003 Well, the chair thing is resolv'ed. The furniture dealer let me keep the old chair and gave me a replacement. It's a different chair...it still reclines, and it swivels...no pockets or gliding, and it smells like someone sat and smoked in it a lot, but it's new, comfy, and allows me to sit pretty straight and write. Oh, darn...that excuse as to why I'm not producing is out the window. The highpoint of my day was the ferry ride...we live neat an old ferry that wanders back and forth across the Monogahela River. It's red and white, with a cab on either side of it, the red paint chipping off the treads marked out on the flat bed of the ferry. It holds about three cars at a time, I think. I got out and stood at the back ramp, and marveled. It's been raining a lot, and the water was muddy, thick with assorted branches and mulchy looking dirt and the occasional example of man's carelessness. Up river a barge, heavy with coal, sat and waited for us to cross, the long metal ropes guiding us on either side. A smaller pontoon-like boat passed behind us, its purple awnings and sunny climes name reminding me of Florida. I could hear the train, and feel the promise of rain on the cool breeze, and there and then I felt refreshed and content. I think I must be a water person, for all that I swim like a half full pop bottle. What has the reviewer been reading? Well, I've turned in a review for Tracy Grant's Daughter of the Game, and will turn in one for her prequel, Beneath a Silent Moon. I like these books because they give me hope...see, Beneath the Silent Moon is, chronologically, before the other book, for all that Daughter was published first, so if Grant can do it, why can't I do the same with Balancing Act and Pilgrims of Night? Well, I also liked them because they are very good...complicated and cool. Also, Sinister Pig by Tony Hillerman...which is wonderful, Land of the Blind, which is very different and thoughtful, Paper Mage (Leah Cutter) which was very cool and not at all what I expected, Sherrylin Kenyon's yummy Night Embrace (which has more sexy babes than you can shake a stick at) Michael Connelly's Lost Light, which is complex and brilliant. Permalink Cindy scribed this at 4:58 PM 0 comments

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