It's so hot that...

Hardened plastic newspaper dispensers are melting around town. I'm serious.

In honor of the current wave, I'm reading Heat Stroke by Rachel Caine. It's the second in her Weather Wardens series. I liked the first--Ill Wind, enough to move on to the nexgt. IW was a fast-paced, kind of breezy (haha), fun story with a few serious (but not too serious) twists here and there. Very enjoyable. But so far Heat Stroke is better. I'm only about a quarter of the way in, so we'll see, but Caine seems to have settled down and found a nice rhythm with this one, and the stakes are raised nicely.


Quote of the day:

"If there was one thing from which people never recovered, it was childhood."

—Tami Hoag, Dust to Dust


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And then there's this:




Me, I think that it's possible to have a public and still not lose yourself. It isn't always easy, but possible.