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The Crossing: truly a poor choice for right before bed. Trapped in your own mind but unable to put a finger on what's wrong? Gah... I've got to find something else to read or else be resigned to crying myself to sleep.

This Century of Sleep or, Briar Rose Beneath the Sea was a poem that made me turn of orientation lock and had only one good line: "The wind peels back the waves like linen sheets and sucks upon the juices of the sea as if it were a grape."

I think I might've lost patience with the florid descriptions. C'mon, Leigh. Let's kick it into gear, bud.

i just want to know everything about everything in this world. what a cool touch of flavor is this: "Not philosophically, Onchu thinks, walking grimly away from the medical facilities and toward her offices, taking the longest loop around the outer edge of the station, just to feel the faint play of gravitational forces against her body. Not philosophically realigned[...]"

Summer Wind: tragic in a way that always hits me hardest--separation by time

Masterpiece: a bit clinical, but chilling all the same

The Beast: ex-treme-ly purple, but an interesting twist

Ruby Slippers: Wizard of Oz stuff isn't for me, and though I love a gossipy story, this just didn't track well. Not a promising start.

the romanization choices in this silk section are frustrating

“The special, mummiform shape of the sah, with its headdress and mask, was associated in Egyptian art with the divine. Humans were sculpted, using linen, into this form in order to be imbued with divinity. As a body was embalmed and enfolded, it was being transfigured into something worthy of veneration.” [40, Riggs, Unwrapping Ancient Egypt, p. 85]

"From Bast to Worsted"; Kassia, I swear...