A New Obsession...brace yourself

And now that I have your attention....It's not knitting. I am utterly captivated by a writer: Elizabeth Bear. Go here (which is her official page), explore, you won't be sorry. I just finished New Amsterdam and I still haven't recovered. I grabbed it completely by chance off the library shelves. Little did I know what awaited me behind that cover. I'm trying not to let this new interest interfere with my diss, just as knitting isn't interfering with it. Ah the pecadillo of conscience, how I wish to smite thee.