Spam blocking

Although the Great Spam Flood of 2012 has subsided, I'm still getting spam comments on a few posts -- ones that, unfortunately, I can't/don't want to lock completely. (For example, the open book thread for With Fate Conspire; also pretty much every new post I've made in the last few days.)

Since several of my regular commenters aren't on LJ, and sometimes OpenID doesn't work the way it should, I've taken the intermediate step of enabling Captcha on anonymous comments. Hopefully that won't be too much of a hassle for those of you affected by it.

To Prologue or Not to Prologue

Tor has a long-standing habit of releasing the Prologue to the next Wheel of Time book in advance of the book's actual pub date, as a teaser for what's to come. I read those from (I think) A Crown of Swords through Crossroads of Twilight, then stopped because I wasn't going to touch the series until the end was in sight. And when I came back, I just read the books themselves; no need to play teaser games with the Prologues.

But now, at last, I'm caught up, and the final book hasn't yet come out. So I put it to you, my blog readership:

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