a meme and a push

I’ve seen a few people posting a “Where I Slept in 2011″ meme, and of course I couldn’t resist that one. So:

Eindhoven and Amsterdam, Netherlands
Venice, Italy
Eugene area, Grants Pass, and a few assorted points along the coast, Oregon
Budapest, Hungary
Yokkaichi and Hiroshima, Japan
New York, NY
Allentown and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Bayeux, Mont-St-Michel, Margaux (near Bordeaux), Brive-la-Gaillard, and Chartres, France
Bilbao, Madrid, Seville, Almuñécar, Mar Menor (near Cartagena), Valencia, and Barcelona, Spain
Gibraltar, UK (though my GPS seems to think it’s an independent country)

Kate Elliott Talks about the importance of talking about books, and as it happens I read a whole bunch of good ones in 2011. I’m not going to remember them all, but here are some (if I don’t mention one you think I should have, it doesn’t necessarily mean I didn’t like it – it may just mean I forgot it yet or that I haven’t read it yet. There are at least two or three by authors on my flist that I just haven’t gotten to yet, so I wanted to make that clear.) Some are new, some very old.

This gets long, so have a cut:

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