I've completed the last episode of the YA Einstein book I've been recording for the Talking Library. Earning karma points via reading out loud about the Solvay conferences (i.e. Bohr and Einstein driving each other nuts)? WIN. Next up is a novel about horses.

Also currently amusing me: Arthur Davison Ficke's Chats on Japanese Prints, a text I'm helping to clean up over at Distributed Proofreaders. It's entertainingly opinionated, punctuated by odd stretches of poetry, and even the OCR blips are making me grin: I just finished a page where the scanner had read "possession" as "obsession." (I'm tempted to argue that it's not a misreading...)

Trading Rhysling notes with a couple of colleagues

Two road trip invitations. (Only one is feasible, but it was lovely to be asked.)

Over at Strange Horizons: By Way of Sorrow