Odds and ends of book buying

Went to the little hole in the wall Barnes & Noble in Lowell this afternoon, and walked in the find the shelves half-stripped. This made me worry that they might be closing, so I asked what was going on. Come to find out that they were in the process of getting a new inventory and so they were thinning some things out. Picked up several classics, including Herodotus's Histories, Aesop's Fables (the complete version, featuring dozens I was not familiar with) and the deluxe annotated edition of Bram Stoker's Dracula.

Other than that, it was a fairly quiet day: working on my fics for the second round of fic20in20, which has become the successor to "drabble20in20". I'm woefully behind, and trying to catch up...

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vampirebigbang and other delights

So yes, one of the many reasons I've been quieter than usual on here is due to working on the rough draft of my entry in vampirebigbang which is going to be a kind of extended back story/character memoir of Muraki. It's been insanely fun to write and I've been filling a wire-bound journal with it (said journal featuring a wintry Hokusai print on the cover. His Paleness approves this choice in a journal!)

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