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Book IV called me back today with a vengeance, and I’ve done the first substantial work since finishing the Great Race.  Over 1500 words.    A plot-bomb of sorts that’s been burning a hole in my typing fingers since the fever went down.   However, it’s a major, MAJOR spoiler so I can’t talk about it.

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Diana Wynne Jones died (of lung cancer, the stories say.)    For reasons that aren’t really that important, she’s another YA author whose work I first ran into as an over-40s adult, and immediately fell for, and sought after, and read and re-read.   Her books made me laugh, scowl, worry…I don’t remember if I ever actually cried while reading one, but my breath came short and I had to turn pages really fast sometimes.    That, to me, is one of the signs of a good book–as being re-readable many times is another.   Her books were certainly re-readable.

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