Comments on: Safe Reading http://justinelarbalestier.com/blog/2005/08/23/safe-reading/ writing, reading, eating, drinking, sport Thu, 17 May 2012 20:45:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Justine http://justinelarbalestier.com/blog/2005/08/23/safe-reading/comment-page-1/#comment-832 Justine Thu, 25 Aug 2005 16:45:08 +0000 http://justinelarbalestier.com/blog/?p=136#comment-832 Marrije: I promise a really long (not space opera) book by me will be in print before too long. But it won't be the final MorM book. Betsy: Thank you for confirming that my guess was spot on. Yay me! Celia: It's not a mission when your whole country is dedicated to similar ignorance. I guess if you make it all the way home then it doesn't matter if you stopped at intersections or not . . . Those who can walk and read a book at the same time are just naturally blessed. Razorbilly: 143 thou words! Gulp! That's awfully long for a YA book . . . Congrats on finishing the draft. Mike G.: Glad you liked MorM. You need not worry the third book may be a bit longer than the other two but it will certainly not be 200 thou or even half that long. I promise. The reading positions site is back up so you can have a squiz now. Marrije: I promise a really long (not space opera) book by me will be in print before too long. But it won’t be the final MorM book.

Betsy: Thank you for confirming that my guess was spot on. Yay me!

Celia: It’s not a mission when your whole country is dedicated to similar ignorance.

I guess if you make it all the way home then it doesn’t matter if you stopped at intersections or not . . . Those who can walk and read a book at the same time are just naturally blessed.

Razorbilly: 143 thou words! Gulp! That’s awfully long for a YA book . . . Congrats on finishing the draft.

Mike G.: Glad you liked MorM. You need not worry the third book may be a bit longer than the other two but it will certainly not be 200 thou or even half that long. I promise.

The reading positions site is back up so you can have a squiz now.

]]> By: Mike G. http://justinelarbalestier.com/blog/2005/08/23/safe-reading/comment-page-1/#comment-825 Mike G. Wed, 24 Aug 2005 12:21:52 +0000 http://justinelarbalestier.com/blog/?p=136#comment-825 Hey, I just finished MorM 1 yesterday, and I'm too out of shape to lug around a 200k word volume 3. So I'll vote for you sticking to the 60k range :) (great book, by the way!) Right now, the poor site's exceeded its bandwidth limit :( Guess I'll have to read that article later. Hey, I just finished MorM 1 yesterday, and I’m too
out of shape to lug around a 200k word volume 3.
So I’ll vote for you sticking to the 60k range :)

(great book, by the way!)

Right now, the poor site’s exceeded its bandwidth limit :( Guess I’ll have to read that article later.

]]> By: razorbilly http://justinelarbalestier.com/blog/2005/08/23/safe-reading/comment-page-1/#comment-824 razorbilly Wed, 24 Aug 2005 02:07:22 +0000 http://justinelarbalestier.com/blog/?p=136#comment-824 The first draft of my followup to TEACH ME is 143,000 words long. I've trimmed it by 20,000 words so far. Livin' large! The first draft of my followup to TEACH ME is 143,000 words long. I’ve trimmed it by 20,000 words so far. Livin’ large!

]]> By: Celia http://justinelarbalestier.com/blog/2005/08/23/safe-reading/comment-page-1/#comment-822 Celia Tue, 23 Aug 2005 21:21:17 +0000 http://justinelarbalestier.com/blog/?p=136#comment-822 See, in my own continuing mission to ignore the existance of metric-ness, I always forget if it's two pounds to the kilo or vice versa. I do know that 5 pounds is nearly half a stone. :) (that's how I know I've been reading too much brit lit). Reading while walking is fun, mostly, until I get home and can't remember if I stopped at all the intersections. :) See, in my own continuing mission to ignore the existance of metric-ness, I always forget if it’s two pounds to the kilo or vice versa. I do know that 5 pounds is nearly half a stone. :) (that’s how I know I’ve been reading too much brit lit).

Reading while walking is fun, mostly, until I get home and can’t remember if I stopped at all the intersections. :)

]]> By: betsy http://justinelarbalestier.com/blog/2005/08/23/safe-reading/comment-page-1/#comment-821 betsy Tue, 23 Aug 2005 19:12:19 +0000 http://justinelarbalestier.com/blog/?p=136#comment-821 4.75 pounds = 2.15456376 kilograms per google. i live to serve. ;) 4.75 pounds = 2.15456376 kilograms per google.

i live to serve. ;)

]]> By: marrije http://justinelarbalestier.com/blog/2005/08/23/safe-reading/comment-page-1/#comment-820 marrije Tue, 23 Aug 2005 18:43:17 +0000 http://justinelarbalestier.com/blog/?p=136#comment-820 Oooh yes, please do write the 200.000 worder! though i'd much prefer it if you didn't make the book a space opera, i can't stomach those, even the excellent mr scalzi's attempt didn't make me happy. do you have any idea by the way whether hunger's bride is any good? or is it a danbrowndisaster? Oooh yes, please do write the 200.000 worder! though i’d much prefer it if you didn’t make the book a space opera, i can’t stomach those, even the excellent mr scalzi’s attempt didn’t make me happy.

do you have any idea by the way whether hunger’s bride is any good? or is it a danbrowndisaster?

]]> By: Justine http://justinelarbalestier.com/blog/2005/08/23/safe-reading/comment-page-1/#comment-819 Justine Tue, 23 Aug 2005 17:36:57 +0000 http://justinelarbalestier.com/blog/?p=136#comment-819 You can read while walking! That feat will never cease to impress me. I can barely reading sitting down without coming a cropper. To be honest, I plan to remain in willful ignorance of USian measurements. I'm a one-woman movement pressuring them into switching to metric. It's a tough fight, but someone has to do it. Sorry about your wrist! I busted mine ten years back (many broken itty bitty bones) and it still buggers around with me. Treat it nice. You can read while walking! That feat will never cease to impress me. I can barely reading sitting down without coming a cropper.

To be honest, I plan to remain in willful ignorance of USian measurements. I’m a one-woman movement pressuring them into switching to metric. It’s a tough fight, but someone has to do it.

Sorry about your wrist! I busted mine ten years back (many broken itty bitty bones) and it still buggers around with me. Treat it nice.

]]> By: Celia http://justinelarbalestier.com/blog/2005/08/23/safe-reading/comment-page-1/#comment-818 Celia Tue, 23 Aug 2005 17:24:10 +0000 http://justinelarbalestier.com/blog/?p=136#comment-818 I've been looking at hardbacks an awful lot lately, and that one pretty much takes two hands to pull off the shelf. I think somewhere (possibly even the back of the book) it's compared to "A Suitable Boy" by Seth solely on the basis of its weight. (ooh. For *all* your conversion needs, and then some: http://www.convert-me.com/en/convert/weight --I've not even heard of most of these) I hurt my wrist the other day, and the most annoying part of it is that it's harder to read books on my walk to work now. Saddness! Woe! I’ve been looking at hardbacks an awful lot lately, and that one pretty much takes two hands to pull off the shelf. I think somewhere (possibly even the back of the book) it’s compared to “A Suitable Boy” by Seth solely on the basis of its weight. (ooh. For *all* your conversion needs, and then some: http://www.convert-me.com/en/convert/weight –I’ve not even heard of most of these) I hurt my wrist the other day, and the most annoying part of it is that it’s harder to read books on my walk to work now. Saddness! Woe!

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