This new year’s eve has been a nice and quiet one, we enjoyed fresh baked bread, a turkey soup that simmer some thirty hours before serving, and a plate of brownies. Just the right pace before next year descends on us like some maddened bird of prey.

Beyond the cooking we sat about reading and listening to music. Management, enjoying far more leisure than I, tore through two books today. The gauntlet has been thrown down! Well, I managed to squeeze out a book today, Poul Anderson’s New America. Not a bad read, the first half of the book was good–a novella–but the last half wasn’t quite as engaging though the last story ended in such a tantalizing manner as to leave the reading to surmise the true ending. I’ll be moving on to LeGuin’s Worlds of Exile and Illusion, I’m not too certain as to the arc of the story but it has gotten solid praise from the press.

Happy new year to all!