Back to the grind

[clarentine]

And it's back to work tomorrow, for the first full week in something like a month. I'm pretty sure that I'll be wanting another day off before we hit Friday. *g*

I did manage to get into the rewrite of Bells at long last this weekend. And I got some baking done - the house smells of lemon poppyseed bread, regular white yeast bread, roast chicken. Two loaves to the freezer, one to toast for the rest of this week, the fourth to work to share there (or I shall look like a blimp).

Kay will no doubt give me sad eyes all morning as I go through the familiar routine of getting ready for work. Little does she know I'd really rather be home with her. I expect a rough, deadline-packed day.

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Looks like I have another spate of research ahead of me. I left a lot of blanks in Bells on that first hurried draft via novel_in_90 that now have to be filled in. I want the details for this one to be right so, as I did with the pirate novel, Satisfaction, I'll be headed for the reference librarian to engage the InterLibrary Loan program. A lot of the books I have on my current want list are university publications. I suspect the only way to get them will be via ILL.

Comments

[eseme]

Oh, pirate novel! I just remembered the pirate thing I read and printed (because it is interesting) and that it made me think of you.

The October 2009 issue of Scientific American has a one page piece on pirates. The author of the piece writes about how they were not a lawless, chaotic group. One could not sail a ship with pure chaos after all, but pirates themselves perpetuated the myth of lawlessness as a scare tactic. It's worth reading, and I imagine the book cited is too: The Invisible Hook by Peter T. Leeson , published by Princeton University Press in 2009. Leeson is an economist at George Mason University, and I'm not sure how many other books there are on pirates and economics.

[clarentine]

There are some really awesome books, written by Marcus Rediker, that cover the link between commerce and piracy; I liked them and valued them enough to buy two for myself. Allow me to recommend Villains of All Nations. Plus, Rediker is approachable and willing to respond to questions via email, a huge plus when I'm doing research.

I'll add The Invisible Hook to my reading list for when I finally pick up Satisfaction again. Thanks for thinking of me!

[eseme]

You're welcome.

Should I need pirates, I will remember this.

Right now the writing project involves libraries and fantastical beasts.