So the new thing around here, now that hub Steve is juggling chainsaws working the tax season and taking a full course load, is that one morning a week I clean house instead of doing my workout. Funny how I somehow find time for coffee and blogging on days such as this.
Anyway, I'm cleaning this morning, or will be as soon as I finish this delaying tactic post.
And I'm busy, busy, busy getting ready for Seton Hill's Writing Popular Fiction residency at the end of the week. I'm teaching a module this time, on magic systems in fantasy novels and let me tell you, trying to get a hold of fantasy novels for research, without having to pay for them, is a bear. None of the titles my students suggested were at my local library, and it took them two weeks to get them through inter-library loan. And even then, in many cases, the first books in the series were not available at all, so I'm trying to glean what I can from the second and third volumes of trilogies here. Sheesh! I have to say, the whole experience makes a pretty good argument for Google's goal of scanning every book in existence. I'm not saying I'm in favor of the settlement they cooked up, but I do see the need for improving access to books. Of course that could be done lots of ways, and not just by Google.
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