Blurt! — Sben

Blurt! — Sben
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At the moment, this is what my notional stack of books looks like:

Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
A Desolation Called Peace by Arkady Martine
The Will to Battle (but do I first need to reread the previous two books?) by Ada Palmer
The Elusive Shift by Jon Peterson
The Dragon Waiting by John M. Ford

Interspersed in there are Web Typography by Richard Ritter, and various RPG books.

(Really, though, anything past the second is purely speculative, and even the first two aren’t locked down yet.)

Finished reading Cuisine & Empire by Rachel Laudan, a Christmas gift. Fascinating look at how ingredients, cooking techniques, and culinary philosophies have changed and spread over the millennia.

— 3/6/2021 11:00am ∞
Got sucked into Ancillary Justice, and then reread Ancillary Sword and Ancillary Mercy in short order. A couple thoughts:
- Of course the books are a criticism of imperialism and oppression, and a subversion of gender normativity. But Leckie also writes what strike me as neuro-atypical characters as well (Breq here, but possibly also one of the main characters in The Raven Tower).
- By the end of the series, I had grown tired of Breq’s near-omnicompetence.
Anyway, I finally got back to The End of Policing last night.

— 8/27/2020 12:52pm ∞
For years I’ve only read one book at a time. I’ve recently started alternating between two — one important, one fun. So, also currently rereading Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie.

— 8/13/2020 9:41am ∞
Now starting The End of Policing by Alex S. Vitale.

— 8/11/2020 11:47pm ∞
Finished reading A Memory Called Empire. First impression confirmed; it felt more like Leckie’s and Chambers’s second or third books than their firsts. That’s a strong recommendation.

— 8/11/2020 11:30pm ∞