Well, my SIL got the boys and is attempting to get home. It took her 4.5 hours.

It's 6 miles away.

Not sure if she'll be able to get up the hill to the house, but if they make it into the subdivision, it is not far.

My brother is still stuck downtown, and won't even try until the interstates aren't parking lots.

There are very few published books out there without a typo somewhere.

Gospel truth. (Annoying, but truth). But there are Seanan-level typos (pretty much the first I can remember seeing, [not counting the ebook]), versus, say, any of the Harlequin imprints (so many typos and wrong words I was convinced the author thought she would actually get $.50 per $.50 word - whether she used it correctly or not).

Though I don't remember having particular problems with those of your books I've read, Amy. I still haven't read my copy of Cold Kiss. Since there's nothing you can do about them, I assume you'd rather not hear about any "taunt"s, "longue"s, or "saftey"s that I run across? ;)

It required constant vigilance to not print stories about people protesting the sex ration.

Bwahahaha!

That same system hit here around noon and it's a mess. They planned to let out metro area schools early, but they didn't do it early enough, so we've got kids in school buses.

Grant me patience to deal with people who keep "checking in" for updates on things. I know I've been that person in the past, but that's not helping me with the urge to set things on fire.

Yeah, I can't fix the typos, and there's no chance of Cold Kiss going back to press, so ignorance is definitely bliss. Thanks, though!

I'm reading Amor Towles's Rules of Civility now, a galley I picked up at BEA two (three?) years ago and hadn't gotten around to. Galleys are very specifically uncorrected proofs, so typos are to be expected, but the amount of typos that are misspellings and grammar mistakes is actually a little weird. I sort of expect better, even in manuscript form, from an author who went to Yale and Stanford.

That said, it's a great read.

Schools let out before noon around here today, due to the weather forecast. 4:20, and still no snow. I came home at noon and have been working from the sofa ever since, because the worst of the snow was originally going to hit during the evening commute. And while many people around here are fine, there's always that one person who swerves across three lanes of traffic because a snowflake hit his or her windshield, leading to traffic snarls going back for miles. I just didn't want to deal. Plus, it was an excuse to come home at lunch and work from my sofa.

They did early dismissal, but it was too late. Buses couldn't make it.

That said, it's a great read.

I just finished it last night! And would like to discuss. I liked it, didn't love it. Partly because I didn't find the voice that distinctive or believable somehow. But I'm also afraid I spoiled myself by reading the author bio before the book, which set me against it from the start.

Ok, medical stuff is getting seriously high tech. When I had my shoulder surgery, I got a cooler with a thing that cycled the ice water through a shoulder cuff thing. It was pretty cool.

Today I was brought a compact machine that does the same thing but no cooler of ice water involved. I take a special 4x6 cold pad and it gets put in the cast with the nozzles sticking out. When I get home I hook up to the machine and it does 30/30 cycles of cold and rest. Plus it has a circulation sleeve for my other calf. Shoot even the crutches they brought me are fancy.

eta - reading the website about these crutches - Alex Wong used them in his recovery.

Living in the future, Suzi!

But I'm also afraid I spoiled myself by reading the author bio before the book, which set me against it from the start.

Yeah, I did, too. And it's all very ... very. I'll be done by the weekend, then we can discuss!

Where do we discuss Hannibal? Amazon Prime started offering it today, and I'm only 15 minutes in and already hopelessly in love with Will Graham.