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Reading & Writing

Author: Autumn
January 28, 2008

What am I doing in offline life? Take a look at what I’ve been reading, the projects I have on the go, and mark down when I’ll next be performing with one of the groups with which I play!

Last Updated: 3 August 2011

READING:

Reading Now:

The Fleece & Fiber Sourcebook by Deb Robson & Carol Ekarius
A Dance With Dragons by George R. R. Martin
The Bards of Bone Plain by Patricia McKillip (on hold)
Ysabel by Guy Gavriel Kay (reread, on hold)

Recently Read:

July:
Daddy-Long-Legs by Jean Webster (reread)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J. K. Rowling (reread)
A Storm of Swords by George R. R. Martin (reread)
A Feast for Crows by George R. R. Martin
Ina May’s Guide to Childbirth by Ina May Gaskin
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by J. K. Rowling (reread)
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J. K. Rowling (reread)

(Monthly summaries of books read are posted on the last day of each month, so you can review them that way. A woefully out of date master past reading list is available here.)

WRITING:

Contracted:

Birds: A Spiritual Field Guide: Adams Media publication date January 2012

Uncontracted:

Harpsichord Dreams: essay collection (begun October 2008) [hibernating]
Still Life With Cello: essay collection split off from Harpsichord Dreams (begun November 2008) [hibernating]
Orchestrated: YA novel (begun May 2008, second draft finished August 2009, third rewrite in progress 2010)
Wings & Ashes: novelette in first draft (begun August 2007)
Swan Sister: adult novel, first draft (50% complete) (begun January 2006)
The Moments of Being Pandora: YA urban fantasy novel, first rewrite, final four chapters in draft (begun November 2004)
Creating the Muse (also referred to as ‘The Poppy Book’, or tongue-in-cheek as The Great Canadian Novel or GCN): adult novel, in rewrites (and the last four chapters may as well be a first draft, as the end has to be so drastically changed) (begun July 2002) [hibernating]

Il Maestro e le Figlie di Coro: YA historical novel, first rewrite (begun November 2006)
Many Names: complete YA novel, submitted without representation December 2007 (rejected; currently seeking representation) (written November 2002 - late 2003)
Balsamic Moon: adult novel, on hold; complete with final chapter summarized in two pages (written November 2003)

REHEARSING:

Lakeshore Chamber Orchestra:

Lesson Work:

Position Pieces for Cello vol. 2 by Rick Mooney
French Suite: Bazelaire
Suzuki book 3
cello ensemble stuff

PERFORMING:

Lakeshore Chamber Orchestra:

1 July 2011
7:30pm
Saint-Joachim Church
2 Sainte-Anne
Pointe-Claire Village

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