Finished rereading Too Like the Lightning by Ada Palmer. Still has off-putting elements, but I’m charging ahead to the next book.

Blurt! — Sben
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Finished rereading Too Like the Lightning by Ada Palmer. Still has off-putting elements, but I’m charging ahead to the next book.

Musing about what it would take to turn the long walk journal into a print-on-demand book.

— 4/23/2021 10:02am ∞
Finished God Cancer by Greg Stolze. I didn’t know I was looking for a short horror novel mashup of Lovecraft (At the Mountains of Madness–style) and cancer, but I sure was.

— 4/1/2021 8:21am ∞
Finished A Desolation Called Peace by Arkady Martine. A satisfying sequel to her first, not flawless but still very well executed.

— 3/27/2021 1:04pm ∞
Finished Piranesi by Susanna Clarke. Short and unsettling and very, very good.

— 3/17/2021 9:23pm ∞
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.)

— 3/6/2021 1:02pm ∞