Books (General)

[snow vessel]

^ the spoilers are mostly character names with one or two plot point mentions

||this lestat vibe feels very in line with like... book 3-4 lestat imo. The big crazy bombastic breakdown energy||

IWTV s1-2/s3 promo/TVC books 1-4 + speculation ||I do wonder what the plan is with raglan/totbt, given how much set up we've had for raglan and how little for David Talbot. I also wonder what armand's up to this season. I expect maybe moving devil's minion forward from TQOTD? I'm hesitantly excited, because he's my favourite character but I'm not totally sure where we're headed, especially given he seems to have already turned daniel||

-# maybe this should go in #1364954411582885899 but I think there's slightly more Interview fans here than there

[low hill]

[Green Bone Saga] My worry is ||that they are clearly setup as not likable people taking probably bad decisions, but I'm not convinced the books are going to give them an appropriate set of consequences for that. Which is putting me off.||

[wraith lynx]

https://tenor.com/view/eevee-jumps-gif-2696845723667273642

[main wren]

I get a moment of deja vu every time this gif is posted lol

[wraith lynx]

I tend to do my Happy Eevee Dance a lot (especially any time SoTF is mentioned) 😌✨️

[long sorrel]

@orchid obsidian sorry for the ping but I think you've read a bunch more than me from Leigh Bardugo, have you read the Alex Stern series? And if so how is it? 👀

[white crystal]

feel like i haven't read many new fantasy series in a while, any 2020s fantasy series recommendations from folks here?

[ivory cypress]

what other series do you like?

[orchid obsidian]

I haven't read it I'm afraid 😔 I'm a Grishaverse girlie only in terms of Bardugo, I haven't branched out yet

[white crystal]

the usual mainstream stuff - cosmere, kingkiller, dresden files, 5th season, scott lynch, brent weeks. recently ready Will of Many, was pleasantly surprised. Can't wait for hte sequel.

[main wren]

My #1 favorite series is the Greenbone Saga but idk if that counts as 2020s since only the last book is

[white crystal]

the date's just a guideline, i'm just looking for newer books. i'll check it out

[main wren]

The Sun Eater series has been taking off. I personally didn't like it as much but it has been gaining a lot of traction and the reading experience as far as prose/perspective felt similar to Will of the Many

[white crystal]

Rob H. Bedford, in a review for SFF World compared the first entry Empire of Silence to Herbert's Dune, Gene Wolfe's The Book of the New Sun and Patrick Rothfuss' The Name of the Wind.
Well that's some heavy praise

[main wren]

yeah when I say I didn't like it, it was more like a "I can see the appeal and it's well written but it's just not for me" kind of not like, rather than having any big problems with it

[ivory cypress]

yeah, i'll say also Red Rising and books by Joe Abercrombie are popular with the same crowd, at the same time as they're not to my taste, but i might suggest looking them up

[white crystal]

oh ya i've read a bunch of abercrombie works. i've read 3 of the first red rising books. i'll probably reread them from the first one this winter

[long sorrel]

The Devils which was released this year by Abercrombie is quite different than his previous stuff and really fun so I do recommend checking that out. Imma go ahead and recommend Tainted Cup it isn't traditional fantasy but it's really well written.

[ivory cypress]

oh yeah I would highly recommend Robert Jackson Bennett's stuff for sure

[long sorrel]

I do have Sun Eater on my tbr but my tbr works in mysterious ways so...

[low hill]

Oh, Usha. Depending on how I feel about Jade Legacy in a couple of hours time, I might start Evocation.

[long sorrel]

👀

[white crystal]

Oh sweet, didn't know about Devils. Definitely going on my list. Thanks

[long sorrel]

I was going to message you earlier but I forgot then I forgot what I was going to say so I didn't

I just remembered that, though I still don't remember about what

[low hill]

This piece of knowledge has enriched my evening.

[long sorrel]

I figured

You're welcome

[low hill]

I look forward to you remembering the other piece of information as well. :P

[long sorrel]

Don't hold your breath

[low hill]

I won't.

[untold leaf]

WotM 1 ||What's up with these Sappers? They're terrifying. I'm also getting Roman vibes from this book.||

[wraith lynx]

and so it begins

[main wren]

the readalong of the many

[tight kindle]

The whole book is floating around in my head

I read it too fast yesterday

And stayed up way too late

I read the whole thing in two days (minus twenty pages)

[ripe tide]

So I pulled an @tight kindle today because it was bookshop day and Waterstones was offering double the amount of stamps for the loyalty card. I bought the new edition of The Dragon Republic. (To be fair, I did not own any of the Poppy War books, I read them with the library)

[royal carbon]

Library lacks the rest of Terra Ignota

I got the next Dresden Files book to work on

[deft stream]

Guys, the shipping of books with amazon is more than the books I want to buy

[main wren]

books are heavy

[deft stream]

But 27 dollars heavy, I dont think so

[tight kindle]

I'm glad my name is synonomous in your head with impulse-buying books

[ripe tide]

Am I wrong?

[tight kindle]

Nope

[royal carbon]

I was very good and left the bookstore with only 4 books yesterday. I only had to buy three of them and one of them was preordered last month.

[snow vessel]

Memnoch the devil 4 ||so this book is about... lestat saving a church?? XD||

[light drum]

Red rising all ||After finishing Morning Star i do think the seris should have ended here||

[snow vessel]

RR series all ||I find pierce's reasoning for continuing the series quite interesting. IIRC he's said that the end of MS felt too easy, too clean. He felt like it wouldn't be that simple and wanted to explore that||

[proven token]

It looks like Persepolis Rising is what breaks my streak

I have to return it to the library now and never really got past the setup.

Feels a tiny bit contrived

I'll come back to it eventually.

[wraith lynx]

RR saga all ||And he's right imo. I like to think of it in my own country's terms, where after the slaves were freed there was a very messy period of Reconstruction. With that in mind, I think its very realistic from the public being unsatisfied, to sabotage from outside forces who want to perpetuate slavery. That and Lyria and Mustangs povs are so so so so so so soooooo good, especially mustangs 😂||

[merry galleon]

I’m at part 3 of The Fork, The Witch, and the Worm. I think I’ll continue reading for a while longer.

[minor sleet]

Exordia is so good

Seth Dickinson just do banger after banger after banger

I’m going to read all of his (non franchise/tie-in) novels for the rest of my life

[winter fern]

Would you guys be inclined to regard Voldemort as a 'tragic villain'? I personally wouldn't, but maybe it's just me.

[lusty meteor]

No

[alpine drum]

harry potter ||I think he's a textbook case of unambiguously evil villain who had a shoehorned tragic backstory which fails to justify the fact that he becomes magic hitler||

[main wren]

for a villain to be a tragic villain I think they need to have some sort of regret. Like they resent the evil they're doing but feel they have to anyway. Or maybe they're making up for some mistake in the past.

[long sorrel]

Voldemort feels "generic evil"

Most do have a tragic/painful past but we don't qualify them into tragic villain

[analog geode]

Hummel from The Rock for example

Magneto often fills that role too

[ripe tide]

I mean Vader for sure. I read this in the introduction to the new edition of the novelization (I didn't actually buy it) but Stover pitched his version of ROTS as a Greek Tragedy. Or well that was his plan before Lucas told him to just make it good and he had no need to pitch it that way.

[winter fern]

Awesome movie

[marble sinew]

HP all ||I guess technically you can say he's a tragic villain, in that his downfall was caused by a fine blend of hubris and prophecies, but it really feels like a case of trying to cram the step-sister's foot into the glass slipper.||

HP all ||The big important thing being typically your tragic villain's flaw plays a role in their downfall from something of a hero into a villain, and that's kinda entirely missing from Voldy's story (unless you're a wizard fascist)||

[winter fern]

What about ||Wormtail|| and ||Snape||?

Assuming one considers the latter a villain

Which in the books at least I probably would

[marble sinew]

They're missing the tragic part IMO, in literary analysis tragic doesn't just mean sad.

HP all ||If anything, Snape is like anti-tragic, in that it's his "heroic virtue" that leads to his demise.||

[main wren]

Wormtail's also just a wimpy traitor

there's nothing tragic about him

[marble sinew]

Tragic is basically "They're a great guy, but..." (with direct consequences in the story), and "he's an all-around awful guy" isn't really a valid but there

[main wren]

I also wouldn't say Snape is a villain, as pretty much every plot-significant thing he does in the story is in some way helping the protagonists

he's just mean about it

[analog geode]

Duh, Nicholas Cage is in it

[half raven]

reading a Pratchett book. after years of reading mostly Sanderson, it is refreshing to have to look up words again

[light drum]

||Ok ya starting Iron gold i agree||

||She is so goooood||

[wraith lynx]

RR saga all ||And to think IG is easily the weakest of the 3 newer ones, she in particular gets soooooooo much better its insane||

[light drum]

Irongold reread early ||I do not think I can say my thoughts on Lysander without extreme cursing||

[snow vessel]

Memnoch the Devil ch5 ||i wonder if the average man lestat saw was God, if this granite figure is the devil||

[junior dew]

Piranesi was a really interesting quick read

And I’m enjoying The Troop quite a lot so far, having just finished part 1 last night. I don’t think a book has ever made me scrunch my face up in disgust like this one has, which I think is a solid indicator that it’s doing its job well

[merry galleon]

I just finished The Fork, The Witch, and The Worm. And it was an interesting read, with its short stories having that connection to each other in its own way.

It was fun

[minor sleet]

Heinlein was such a libertarian 🙄

[main wren]

It was a refreshing visit to Alagaesia after such a long break yeah

Have you read/are you planning to read Murtagh?

[analog geode]

For a second I thought you were implying Heinlein wrote the Fork the Witch and the Worm

[minor sleet]

I haven’t read the book but I am confident there isn’t enough chauvinism in the book for that to be possible

[north scaffold]

Beginning Exordia now, I'm pretty hyped. 🎉

[minor sleet]

https://tenor.com/view/sickos-sicko-haha-yes-creeper-gif-25057805

It’s so good!!

[peak grove]

Finished Skyward

Very YA but had its moments

Gonna start the audiobook for this book that is apparently like kinda good???

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1118671161887313930/1427341968505180242/image0.jpg?ex=68ee834c&is=68ed31cc&hm=2114f31792d245f438e48a90aa90ff0110cd7358c23e84f74eed57401ff67b8e&

[minor sleet]

Heat 3 up next?

[junior dew]

I was all about HE4T

[wet belfry]

@viral fractal

[minor sleet]

He should just admit it

[hollow hedge]

he needs to admit it to himself before he can say it to his fans

he's still in denial, still believes he can do it, that God will shine on him and he'll finally find whatever it is he needs to finish the book and the series or something

[wet belfry]

Kind of crazy to live in a world where literally millions of a man's contemporaries know a thing about him better than he appears to know it about himself

[hollow hedge]

(I don't know what his faith is but finishing the books now would require some sort of divine intervention, unless he's secretly had them done for years and is lying about it)

(which I don't think he is)

[main wren]

he's devoutly not religious iirc

[ivory cypress]

it took me about a decade to realize i'd given up on my big wip.... i imagine there's a lot of his age playing into this

[main wren]

he's gone on rants against religion before

[ivory cypress]

my one fanfic of 100k words is NOT my life's work and mentioned in the same breath as my name

at that age it's like... facing down that there are things you realize you might never get to do

[minor sleet]

Alternatively he’s already finished it, is lying about it, and they’ll be out posthumously

[viral fractal]

I think it’s a mix of factors

[minor sleet]

It’s that or super deep denial

[viral fractal]

But yeah I wish his editor would sit down and have a talk with him

[wet belfry]

I have an exceptionally hard time believing his publisher would play along with this

He pays their bills

[hollow hedge]

I'm sure they talk, but like, George has heard it all before. It disheartens him, but he is far too stubborn to accept help finishing the series

[marble sinew]

He still has a dream of a Dream of Spring

[viral fractal]

Insane that since adwd came out I have finished middle school, high school, my undergrad and my masters

So there’s that

[wet belfry]

I could see some Stephen King-esque near death experience shocking him into motion on it but he's old enough that near-death experience is less likely than just death

[hollow hedge]

he's old enough that he could get the miracle and still fail, tbh

[tight kindle]

@long sorrel Thursday! In theory.
A Marvellous Light is the one I plan on reading first

[long sorrel]

what? Is this your immediate tbr or?

i'm a bit confused about what happens on Thursday

[tight kindle]

Book delivery

That's when these four show up

[long sorrel]

aaah

now I'm extra confused

is that mm/dd?

if so wasn't the 6th like a week ago

[main wren]

yeah this seems like a typo of 10/16?

both readings of those dates are in the past

[long sorrel]

yes

[peak grove]

Heat 3 will take place in N'awlins

[CW: Mild language and Suggestive content (someone quotes that one Pacino line from Heat)]

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[rugged tartan]

Oh god no they're replacing me

[long sorrel]

heat 2 doesn't do silksong skips like you do don't worry.

[tight kindle]

That was the order date, not the delivery date.

I'm getting a book delivery on Thursday, and one of the books in question is A Marvellous Light

Which I intend to start reading as soon as I get it

[wraith lynx]

Oh atrus if you havent read it yet I do think TSoA is right up your alley

I saw it on the list 👀

[tight kindle]

Yes I've heard really good things about it!

Also I just read the sample chapter of The Strenth of the Few and AGGGGGGGGH

I want the book

Right now

[long sorrel]

less than a month now

[tight kindle]

I'm probably going to preorder it next week when it's in the budget

Thriftbooks doesn't charge shipping

[long sorrel]

I should read the book after Marvelous Light

(then i can let you know if you want to read or if it's skippable for you)

oh @low hill which book was it in the end?

[tight kindle]

My whole order consists of The Song of Achilles, A Marvellous Light, Red White and Royal Blue, and the Earth Girl series (Earth Girl, Earth Star, Earth Flight)
But it's in two different shipments for whatever random reason

(Cosmic I think I've recced Earth Girl to you before but I still think you'd like it)

[wraith lynx]

If it wasn't you, it was someone else because I have been told about it!

[tight kindle]

I remember it having some crashing out but I don't know that any of the characters could be classified as crashouts? Except maybe the MC? (who is a girl)

But the book contains energy that I get from you

[wraith lynx]

Awww really?? Id love to read a cosmic core book!

Next year

[tight kindle]

I genuinely don't know why I love them so much because they're just random sci-fi books I found one day but they remain one of my favorite sci-fi series (serieses?) to date

[wraith lynx]

I think it would be really funny if it ended up my favorite too

[tight kindle]

I mean it's not beating Red Rising for you I know that for sure

[wraith lynx]

Yeah I love scifi like red rising (brutal toppling of the oppressive regime) and Earth Girl (very joy, many whimsy)

Exactly!! 🤣

[tight kindle]

Earth Girl also includes positive societal change towards minorities without bloodshed which I enjoyed a lot

Well, one minority

[wraith lynx]

Tbf that's better than zero 😂

[long sorrel]

What is it about?

[low hill]

I am persevering with Jade Legacy.

[long sorrel]

gotcha

[tight kindle]

Earth Girl premise ||So it's the twenty-seventh century and humans have invented portal technology that has totally replaced all other forms of transportationa and has also allowed them to teleport to other planets. They've spread out to literally thousands of other worlds. They've also eliminated all disabilites except for one. 0.1% of people can only survive on Earth and when they're born they have to be immediately portaled there or they will die. They are known as the Handicapped and they're looked down on (they're viewed to have lower intelligence and called apes and throwbacks). A lot of Handicapped people are orphans because their parents ditch them as soon as they're born.
When the first planets were opened for exploration Earth's population dwindled so quickly that everything fell apart, and they lost a massive amount of their history and technology. So Earth archaeologists are a big deal.
The MC is Jarra, who has been stuck on Earth for her whole life and HATES off-worlders (girl needs serious therapy but was also psychologically experimented on because Handicapped people are viewed as less than human legally and don't have as many rights). She plans on infiltrating an off-world college's archaeology program in order to prove to them that they are normal people and then scream obscenities at them and walk away.||

The worldbuilding is my favorite part. It's really complex and has a lot of depth

And I found the character work to be really satisfying as well

[muted ocean]

Just finished Part One of Roadwork by Richard Bachman (Stephen King)

||The inner monologues can be a bit confusing at times but other than that it's been good so far. It's my second Bachman book (Rage was my first) so here's hoping the other parts can keep building up the story and have a good ending (which can be a bit rare for Stephen King). I've been loving how we get into the head of the MC so hopefully I love the rest!||

[wraith lynx]

Oh. Ohhhh oh ohhhhh BOY this sounds great

[peak grove]

Man the narrator has a voice of gravel that absolutely nails the tone of the movies

Just hearing the narrator say the ‘ready to rock and roll at the drop of a hat’ line and of course the titular Heat line makes me wanna watch the movie again

[tight kindle]

It is!

[little dock]

Wait what? I literally ordered something last night that had 1.99 shipping. Not a big deal but I’m curious how you’re getting free shipping.

[tight kindle]

Oh weird

Ohhh you get free shipping on orders over $15

Which is not a lot for a book order

[little dock]

Oh gotcha yeah I just got one book for cheap. Didn’t know that, thats a solid deal

[tight kindle]

And even then $2 of shipping is way less than anywhere else offers.
I like this website

[minor sleet]

Getting my copy of Absolute Wonder Woman v1 tomorrow

Very excited as witch raised in hell Diana is very sexy

[snow vessel]

I bought a copy of Absolute Batman vol1 the other day

[minor sleet]

Nice

[wraith lynx]

-# is this my sign to get absolute superman

[minor sleet]

AWWv1 was sold out so the local comic book shop thoughtfully ordered it for me and a number of others

[minor sleet]

https://tenor.com/view/doja-cat-star-wars-gif-25078126

Also my local comic book shop is so cool. They had a booth at Pride, in a Deep South state

Now this is a metaphor (From Exordia)

[snow vessel]

Absolute superman feels very... he feels like he'd fit in with RR/Wotm ||darrow & vis||, imo.

[lusty meteor]

HAVE YOU READ IT

[minor sleet]

No

I’m buying it just on the promo pages

[lusty meteor]

Say goodbye to your current personality

Its so over for you

[minor sleet]

Big muscled sword lady with Scythian tattoos and magic

[wraith lynx]

Oh... oh its going to do irreversible damage to my brain isnt it

[snow vessel]

He's very

[lusty meteor]

Its way worse than this

[minor sleet]

I can’t wait to find out how

@absolute Wonder Woman I am single

[north scaffold]

Just a few chapters in to Exordia but so far this is 🔥 . I'm hooked.

I am definitely detecting the buttery flavor of Destiny in here tho (which to me, is a good thing).
And I think I'm well-read enough in sci fi to not be doing the Boss Baby meme when I say that.

[untold leaf]

WotM 3 ||Uh... I think Vis got a little carried away. He wasn't supposed to win that. No one expected him to win that. Including me.||

[wraith lynx]

This was the chapter where I was like "oh yes. This is my kinda book" 😌

[versed agate]

I've been relistening to WotM in the lead up to SotF and (WotM all) ||is it just me, or is Vis written much older before the adoption?||

[main wren]

WOTM ||you mean like he acts older in that portion of the book than in the rest of the book? I personally just got the sense that this was the kind of book where the main character is hyper competent for his age and that's just the buy-in, but I didn't feel like that went down in the story.||

[long sorrel]

||I think the school setting allows him to have more teenager-y immature behaviours towards others. Whether this is intentional, which makes sense given he was more on a "survival mode" before the adoption than after, or not, I cannot tell, the guy isn't deep enough for me to guess||

[minor sleet]

I’m stealing this to describe Khan

https://tenor.com/view/there-she-is-star-trek-wrath-of-khan-ah-ha-there-gif-4979179117513588446

[orchid obsidian]

I have misplaced my book. Where in the world did I put it

[minor sleet]

Under one of the cats?

On the shelf? In the return slot for the public library? On your nightstand? Atop the laundry machine? In the laundry machine (😟)?

[untold leaf]

WotM ||Why, exactly? Because of the fighting dirty?||

[wraith lynx]

WoTM 3 ||No, because that was the first chapter Vis showed his true crashout colors 🥰 he is very angy and I love my son ||

[untold leaf]

||I'm just worried how it will affect him after that. This gives me "inciting incident" vibes. Not saying it wasn't a valid crashout, I'm just worried for him now.||

[wraith lynx]

I am gonna smile and tell you to keep reading 🥴

[orchid obsidian]

Inside my laundry is nightmare fuel 😭

Thankfully it was in my bag

[untold leaf]

Without any context, I might have thought "Inside My Laundry" was a horror book. I'd believe it.

[long sorrel]

Anything about laundry is horror related

[royal carbon]

Reminds me of The Laundry Files series which has basically nothing to do with laundry.

[low hill]

But is horror.

[royal carbon]

Indeed.

[long sorrel]

See?

They put "Laundry" on the title to express that it's horror, well played

[minor sleet]

Laundry is the best chore because you put the dirty things and they come out clean then you dry it then you fold it and put it away while listening to shardcast and go about your day between each step

[analog geode]

You mean while watching Doctor Who

[low hill]

Shardcast is too long to get through unless you have an industrial quantity of laundry...

[long sorrel]

You could say the same about any chore, but laundry sucks

[royal carbon]

Reminds me I never put away the last load of laundry

[analog geode]

I need to fold laundry

[long sorrel]

I need to start laundry but I've been sick so it's worse 😭

I've a little hill of it

[junior dew]

I’ve been effectively living out of my suitcase for a while now due to the back and forth between my place and my gf’s place, and everything ends up being a mess when I go to find clothes so I have devolved into just stuffing my clean laundry in my suitcase.

Going back to living in one place once we move in together is going to be glorious

[long sorrel]

That sounds kinda miserable

Obviously the net is positive but the clothe situation is

[low hill]

-# This is #1404497733108236318.

[junior dew]

I need to find time to listen to more of The Troop tonight. The book is great but I’ve found it’s not a very fun listen when eating lol

[long sorrel]

I read more books when I have to do laundry

so I think this is quite on topic

😌

[low hill]

Do you read them instead of doing laundry? :P

[long sorrel]

Correct!

[cloud socket]

at a brief glance I thought this stemmed from laundry files or something- haven't read them, but I think I did read a short story in that world on the reactor site at some point

[royal carbon]

Computer science summons Eldritch horrors with some dark humor thrown on top. Probably not a premise for everyone but I enjoy them.

[tight kindle]

Every so often I go back and read the blurb for Apparently, Sir Cameron Needs to Die and I get excited for it all over again

[long sorrel]

same

[minor sleet]

I’ve been following the author on tumblr for years. I’m sure the book will be very funny

Left review on “The Moon is a Harsh Mistress”: I get it, Robert, you’re a libertarian. Enough already!”

That said, this is my favorite of Heinlein novel so far. I like the formatting of it as a fake memoir, as it really works, especially with the strong character voice of the memoirist. Andaside from the beginning it has the least paternalistic (or outright!!!!!) misogyny of any book I’ve encountered

[ivory cypress]

cannot wait for that book

Feb is so far away

[long sorrel]

yeaaaah

I keep forgetting about it

and then i remember again

or if not one of you two does

and so it's a constant cycle

[unique turret]

I’m listening to “With the Lightnings” which is supposed to (by the author’s own words) be Aubrey/Maturin in space, and this narrator is just so much less… energetic than the one I listened to narrate Aubrey/Maturin that it’s hard for me to consider them related

[ivory cypress]

heehee

[zinc flicker]

Laundry files? I’ve been thinking of reading them for a while 👀

[royal carbon]

Yes, you should give them a shot if you are interested.

[minor sleet]

ABSOLUTE WONDER WOMAN V1 SECURED

https://tenor.com/view/police-siren-siren-gif-14993722

[alpine drum]

Its very good

[lusty meteor]

Probably life changing for you in a manner that may make this channel unreadable

We shall see

[minor sleet]

https://tenor.com/view/look-smile-smirk-breezymoves-ornery-gif-15288636566493983673

Free baby

Bad lizard! No burning babies

The art is so good!!! I love the reds and blacks and oranges

That’s my girl!!!

POV: you are Steve Trevor and you have a concussion and survived a plan crash and you see this woman leaning you over speaking Greek

[minor sleet]

Meet cute with her future enemy #toxicyuri

Oh Barbara Minerva is the first to call her Wonder Woman…

Etta Candy is here!!!

[alpine drum]

Uh, in the future if think this stuff should be spoiler tagged

[minor sleet]

Noted although most of the panels I’ve shown have featured heavily in the weekly previews ove the last year

AWW v1

[alpine drum]

https://tenor.com/view/yugioh-punch-ground-punching-ground-it-shouldve-been-me-it-shouldve-been-me-not-him-gif-27446150

[minor sleet]

AWW v1

https://tenor.com/view/sickos-sicko-haha-yes-creeper-gif-25057805

Oh this is a who’s who of Wonder Woman characters. Now (AWW v1) ||Veronica Cale is here & she’s advising the American president||

AWW v1

Hey uh… she can’t normally do that awwv1

AWW v1 ||Exit stage… down? ||

Oh damn this is two arcs in one hardback book!!! Sweet!!!

Also new artist

😍😍😍😍😍😍😍

[snow vessel]

Memnoch the devil 6 ||OH! the ordinary man must be memnoch/the devil?||

||also, funny that lestat used to have a castle but we've never really gotten a "castle lioncourt" sort of thing||

||I guess he had magnus's tower for a while||

[minor sleet]

AWWv1 || Kelly Thompson thinking to herself: how will I describe the chimera? Hmm. I know. Big buff tiger lady with snake tail and goat horns
Mattia de Iulius: genius. Check out my sketch of it
DC editorial: perfect put it in the comic ||

Third arc, third artist and style. Sketchy chibi/ Tiny Titans this time

Ok I’ve finished it

THAT WAS SO GOOD

I NEED THE REST SO BAD

DC SHOULD LET KELLY THOMPSON DO WHATEVER SHE WANTS FOREVER

[lusty meteor]

Told you

[minor sleet]

I never doubted it

This is likely to displace No Man’s Land as my favorite comic arc

I’m going to withhold full judgment until it’s complete but damn I didn’t know they still made 10/10 comics these days

[wraith lynx]

Oh codenames its so joyous to see you obsessed with this 😂

[minor sleet]

It’s a good comic

That never happens

Where’s the catch

Where’s the part where it sucks and have to go, well this is technically an art form for children

[quaint tendon]

So butchers masquerade is reaching its climax. And I’m freaking out. Sanderlanche levels of stress in a way I have not felt out of my admittedly minuscule experience in the LITRPG genre. But the times I’ve felt it have been while reading DCC

There’s just something in these books that I’m missing from he who fights with monsters

I really enjoy HWFWM but idk. It’s missing something

It was really hard not to give up on HWFWM after the books 4-6 arc I’m ngl. lol

[sleek jungle]

I quit after book 4

[quaint tendon]

But, I just downloaded book 7 which I’ve been told will heal the wounds of the last 3 books. But also I will not be returning to that series until I finish the current Carl books

[minor sleet]

https://lithub.com/thomas-pynchon-has-been-warning-us-about-american-fascism-the-whole-time/

[quaint tendon]

I had a friend who was instilling me with trust that the slog is worth it

Lmao there I am using WOT terms

[quaint tendon]

To be fair, wind and truth was cheaper than a therapist

And I’m hella broke

[minor sleet]

This is a potshot at Infinite Jest, using Gravity’s Rainbow

But yeah also Wind and Truth

[quaint tendon]

And unlike fascists I don’t make my emotional problems the worlds problems

Have fascists tried stew idk

I doubt it

Too much intermingling I think

[sleek jungle]

in my opinion, DCC is different from most LitRPGs in that it's a cohesive story. Books have beginning, middle, and end, characters have arcs and so on. LitRPGs like HWFWM that started as web serials lack that by virtue of being written one chapter at a time.

[quaint tendon]

Oh god I didn’t piece it together till you said it

HWFWM is like homestuck

https://tenor.com/view/nervous-collar-eesh-loosen-tense-gif-7576451

I’ll try and forgive it

I also find that, while Carl and Jason have some similarities. Carl is just way more likable to read

Jason just becomes really powerfully unlikable in books 4-6

And the major problem is that almost no one else is likable enough to stick around for

[quaint tendon]

I only replied to half of this my apologies, you hit the nail on the head

[sleek jungle]

I've read a ton of LitRPGs. I find them fun from time to time, just like I enjoy isekai novels from time to time. They're my popcorn reads. In part, because they read less like books and more like transcribed novelisations of DND campaigns

[quaint tendon]

Every Carl book is super satisfying because every Carl book has a point to make in the narrative

Sometimes HWFWM, like in books 4-6 it’s like

Why am I reading 3 books of set dressing

It’s like watching a YouTube video of a concrete slab foundation being poured

Except sometimes it references 80s media that the protagonist probably shouldn’t be old enough to reference

Idk I’ve never been to Australia maybe it’s just like that

[sleek jungle]

another thing DCC does that no other LitRPG I've read did is how integrated the RPG element is into the narrative and how it contributes to it.
DCC post book 1 general ||it reinforces the show business aspect. how the rest of the universe looks at the dungeon as a game and a tv show. it has to communicate the status of players to the viewers, to make them feel like their spending of money on the prize boxes affects the player's success or failure chances, to make them spend even more money on the next box and so on ||

[tight kindle]

So the wrong book order showed up today

I got the ones I wanted more so I'm not complaining

However

They're ex-library books

So I've been getting the plastic off with as little damage to the books themselves as possible

The other two should be here in a day or two

[quaint tendon]

Fun

I’ve never heard of those

[minor sleet]

https://www.tumblr.com/silverwhittlingknife/731192494590656512/hes-having-a-bad-time

[tight kindle]

A Marvellous Light and The Song of Achilles are both m/m romance and Earth Girl and Earth Flight are books 1 and 3 of a scifi series I really enjoy

[quaint tendon]

Huh. Nice

[tight kindle]

Book 2 and a copy of Red White and Royal Blue are in the other shipment

[quaint tendon]

Cool, not literature related but I got my shipment confirmation about my cosmere RPG stuff. Which was very exciting

[tight kindle]

A Marvellous Light 2 ||The Bridgerton vibes are off the charts and honestly I'm here for it. The magic is also awesome.||

||He's taking this rather well, all things considered.||

[torpid kiln]

I just started the Farseer Trilogy

[untold leaf]

I remember getting Earth Girl recommended to my by someone years ago. I don't remember who. But when I first searched for it on Libby, it was unavailable. Looks like it is now. I guess that's going on my TBR list.

[merry galleon]

The Ebook version of Sigra’s Roost is coming out on the 18th? LETS GOOO!

(Cackling like a goblin) GIMME GIMME

[tight kindle]

The fabulous urge to organize your bookshelf by color

I did my best with what I had

[wraith lynx]

WoTM right in the center where it belongs 😌

[tight kindle]

I miss my big shelf 🥲

[merry galleon]

Ah. The urge is an old friend

[tight kindle]

It is, in fact, in the middle of my color gradient

[merry galleon]

The urge to organise bookshelf is right up there with the urge to buy more books

Ah phooey! The date for ebook of Sigra’s Roost release has been changed to 15th of November.

At least that will coincide with Oath of the Wolf

[tight kindle]

Lost have you seen my big bookshelf? I'm very proud of it

(is that a yes?)

[merry galleon]

The image one above or was there another image?

[tight kindle]

Totally different shelf

Back home

Also guys I'm having emotions over something 😭

There's this incredibly nostalgic book series that I love and it went out of print a long time ago and I just went and looked on Thriftbooks and they're all there and I can get all four for $33 USD in hardcover and the thing is they literally have one left of two of them

But I just bought six books

But on the other hand it's in the budget

And I'm experiencing emotions over this situation

[untold leaf]

Sounds to me like you should get them if it's in your budget.

[merry galleon]

Oh. Then I didn’t see that big bookshelf. IM SO SORRY! You need a hug.

[merry galleon]

Oh my! That is impressive.

[uncut shoal]

Glen Cook's Black Company is on sale in Humble Bundle this week

[merry galleon]

Organised. Colour coordinated. Why does it work?

It’s so tasteful

[tight kindle]

I know organizing by color is my favorite way to organize books

Finding what you're looking for is an absolute pain but it's so pretty

[merry galleon]

I’m on a hunt for some out of print books. And if you found them within your budget. GO GET IT! This is your opportunity!

[tight kindle]

Also my roommate wants a copy of House of Leaves so I can add that to the order and feel better about it

😌

[uncut shoal]

https://www.humblebundle.com/books/glen-cooks-chronicles-black-company-more-books?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=blackcompanyoct25

[tight kindle]

(and then I will steal it from him to read at some point because it is a fascinating looking book)
-# even though Vecna thought it was mid because Vecna thought Project Hail Mary was mid so clearly we have very different tastes

[wraith lynx]

Atrus you should absolutely get those childhood books and then cry about them

[wraith lynx]

Also HA WoTM front and center where it belongs (but for a second time) 😌✨️

[quaint tendon]

Butchers Masquerade 73 reaction

https://tenor.com/view/stressed-stressed-out-it-is-what-it-is-meme-gif-1807874383562258451

[tight kindle]

...I did

I have problems 😭

[wraith lynx]

I wouldnt consider listening to your heart a problem 😌✨️

[royal carbon]

Reminds me I need more bookshelves

[untold leaf]

No, I think that was a good decision.

[tight kindle]

Eleven books in eight days though 😭

[low hill]

Atrus... They're all black. Not much organising required. :P

[low hill]

-# Project Hail Mary was boring. House of Leaves was interesting.

[low hill]

Then buy them. Trust me, I'm a doctor.

[twilit belfry]

is The Company of Vengeful Crows good?

the
crowboy whos job it is to eat plastic book

[quaint burrow]

RR 35 ||Man cannot be freed by the same injustice that enslaved it.
Ayo chill||

[snow vessel]

Mm might reread Dracula after I finish the first Vampire Hunter D novel(?)

[snow vessel]

Ok this might be crossing into #1364954411582885899 a little but hopefully its fine

I've been seeing some stuff promoting the Talamasca show, as well as (obviously) the TVL trailer. Tale of the Body Thief/AMC Anne Rice shows ||What on earth are they planning with Raglan? He was in iwtv s2, now he's in season 3 and the talamasca show??? From memory he wasnt in the books at all before Body Thief and obviously that wraps up his arc||

||are they replacing David with Raglan??||

||tons of raglan but no david of all people is so strange||

||maybe a potential TOTBT season will be more about Lestat/Daniel/Raglan than Lestat/David/Raglan??||

[merry galleon]

Murtagh ||fighting with only a fork|| is that even possible?

[low hill]

Hmm, interesting.

The Godfather meets The Magicians in the sweeping adult debut from #1 New York Times bestselling author Marie Lu. Perfect for fans of V.E. Schwab, Red City is a dark and deadly contemporary fantasy of magical warfare, star-crossed ambition, and the pursuit of perfection at any cost, set in a glittering alternate Los Angeles.

[long sorrel]

Fiiine

[low hill]

Hehe.

Blurb.

||Alchemy is the hidden art of transformation. An exclusive power wielded by crime syndicates that market it to the world’s elites in the form of sand, a drug that enhances those who take it into a more perfect version of themselves: more beautiful, more charismatic, simply more.

Among the gleaming skyscrapers and rolling foothills of Angel City, alchemy is controlled by two rival syndicates. For years, Grand Central and Lumines have been balanced on a razor’s edge between polite negotiation and outright violence. But when two childhood friends step into that delicate equation, the city—and the paths of their lives—will be irrevocably transformed.

The daughter of a poor single mother, Sam would do anything to claw her way into the ranks of Grand Central in search of a better life. Plucked away from his family as a boy to become a Lumines apprentice, Ari is one of the syndicates' brightest rising stars. Once, they might have loved each other. But as the two alchemists face off across opposite sides of an ever-escalating conflict, ambition becomes power, loyalty becomes lies, and no transformation may be perfect enough for them both to survive the coming war.||

[long sorrel]

It has been tbred

[wooden dust]

I was reading reviews for a book i was hesitant about and the top 5star was talking about how AMAZING the book was and how skilled the audiobook narrator was, then proceeded to say “i may be biased because im the author’s son”

Lol

[long sorrel]

that's kinda cute though

[ripe tide]

What is this?

[low hill]

Red City, by Marie Lu.

[sleek jungle]

-# I was excited until I noticed the romance tag

[proper silo]

I assume the "WW" in AWW stands for "Wonder Woman", but what does A stand for? 🤔

"Amazing" isn't giving me the google results I want (by which i mean, how do I find this comic book)

[wraith lynx]

Absolute!

[proper silo]

[wooden dust]

I loved her Warcross book when i was younger

[proper silo]

oh, is that the same series as the batman one where he's a construction worker?

[wooden dust]

??

Are you asking me?

[long sorrel]

Unlikely

[wooden dust]

Lol

[long sorrel]

Though maybe?

[proper silo]

just, generally

i remember Nick talking about some series where Batman is a construction worker

and his logo is a big rectangle

[wraith lynx]

Yes 😂 well, I think its the same universe?? I dont think the Trio are connected (yet) 👀

[proper silo]

i see i see

[wraith lynx]

But rasarr... batman isnt even the pookie one (to me) 👀👀👀

😳😳😳😳😳

[proper silo]

wowie

the yellow and black are a cool look

[wraith lynx]

Mhmmm 🥴

[zinc flicker]

You are so right

Absolute Supes is

[mossy gyro]

Audible telling me a title I've looked at is on sale!
It's Black Company and I literally just bought it during this sale two days ago

[zinc flicker]

There’s something about how edgy he looks lol

[wraith lynx]

And hes got 2 hands, one for each of us 🤭💕

[zinc flicker]

I can’t wait for you to read Wheel of Time

[mossy gyro]

BTW Cheyanne since I see you reacting, yes I will get to it eventually and I will ping you when I do if you'd like

[zinc flicker]

Because I feel like there are things that will be said

[mossy gyro]

But I also finally remembered to get Emberdark so I gotta listen to that first

[tight kindle]

I mean I hated how they looked before and I like it more now, so it did something for me at least

[wraith lynx]

Absolute Superman issue 1 ||Has Krypton always spelled all their C words with a K, mortal kombat style?? This isnt a complaint, my MK brain is very happy about it||

[analog geode]

||Does that mean we should spell Krypton Crypton?||

[wraith lynx]

||see I dont know! But theres also the city of Kandor, and and the Klerics so thats what made me think of that 😂||

[analog geode]

||Cal El||

[low hill]

There's something to be said for that.

-# But I'm still going to poke fun at the concept of colour sorting a shelf of black books. :P

[hybrid kettle]

so big and round

[minor sleet]

Heinlein dedicated Starship Troopers to his drill sergeant from basic training ……

No wonder nobody can figure out if this book is pro or anti fascism

[tight kindle]

My other two books are here!

And my phone cannot figure out what orientation to put this photo in. The first one was upside down

[lusty meteor]

FINALLY the absolute comics breaks through

[tight kindle]

I mean some of them are blue. And there's a purple one 😭

And now I have to deal with a hot pink one

[wraith lynx]

Same tags ||also wow, the klerics are jerks, they charge people for rain?? 😭||

||also Clark's mom is a baddie||

[ripe tide]

Thank you

[analog geode]

||Klark||

[wraith lynx]

Superman 2025 + Absolute Superman 001 ||I will say, I like Clark's parents in AS waaaaay more than the movie. Sure, Clark's movie parenrs were conquering buttwads but still, his parents in AS have aura||

001 ||WAIT. The S is for the lower class?? 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥||

I love this already

[lusty meteor]

||real we noticed you from across the bar vibes||

[lusty meteor]

I am cackling

[swift flint]

Katabasis 22 ||Ooo I’m loving this Peter backstory chapter 👀 🍿 ||

[ripe tide]

Oooo Youre reading then

[swift flint]

I started a bit ago but then got too busy with classes 😅 but I’m diving back in now 👀

||So crunchy that pretty much all of this started from that one birthday party when he was pitied for his sickness, that now all his friendships are wrecked||

Ironically, I feel like my own faculty advisor would really like this book

Oh well that’s interesting

||So both of them killed Grimes 🍿 ||

[ripe tide]

Yeahhhhh

[wraith lynx]

AS 001 ||awwww he cant do his heat vision right, stinka butt ||

||WOAHHHH LOIS WITH THE STRAP??? 🔥🔥🔥||

So im obsessed???

Im I love??? This is perfect??

[lusty meteor]

https://tenor.com/view/smiling-mcu-exhale-thanos-infinity-stone-gif-16660976

[swift flint]

With no context this is a very confusing and intriguing statement

[wraith lynx]

AS 002 ||Lois, please stop shooting my mans in the face 😂||

[minor sleet]

Lore accurate

[zinc flicker]

I read the first AS a while ago and thought it was great

[quaint burrow]

RR 39 ||You’re Sevro’s father
What the absolute....||

||That’s when I break his nose and slam my elbow into his temple till he no longer moves.
Darrow of Mars! We don't hit our bestie's dad....... or we do .... continue please||

[quaint burrow]

RR 40 ||I miss the small cot I used to share with Eo. She’s been dead now longer than we were married. I’m surprised how much it hurts to realize that.
Oh my dear Darrow..... If Eo is Persephone, then Darrow is Hades||

||I WAS WONDERING WHY THEY WERE TALKING FOR A WHOLE CHAPTER ABOUT A NEW CHARACTER, LUCIAN IS THE JACKAL??||

RR 41 ||Is Mustang..... the Jackal's sister?||

[quaint tendon]

Is Murtagh worth it for someone who hasn’t reread inheritance since high school

[main wren]

If you have read the series and are just really rusty, it should be fine imo

[quaint tendon]

I’ve been kinda curious how paolinis style has evolved

[main wren]

The stuff that matters in the book, he either explains what you needed from the previous books or introduces it there

[quaint tendon]

Maybe one of these days I’ll reread the series.

But the looming monolith of how little I liked the last book keeps me away

[analog geode]

I recommend dynamite

[quaint tendon]

Like the substance?

[main wren]

I think To Sleep in a Sea of Stars does a better job as far as craft and telling a stronger story, but if you want familiar, Murtagh reads like the older books but with much better craft.

[quaint tendon]

Hm word

[main wren]

I am mixed on whether I recommend it though lol

[quaint tendon]

Thanks sudowoodo

[analog geode]

Good for monolith demolition

[quaint tendon]

I have a long tbr currently but the teenager in me yearns for dragons

[main wren]

vague thoughts on Murtagh but nothing specific ||I found the first half of the book to be the best of his writing and makes me super hyped to see what else he does with Alagaesia, but the second half of the book really didn't vibe with me||

[quaint tendon]

Ahhh interesting review

[analog geode]

I enjoyed To Sleep in a Sea of Stars but it was very weirdly paced. ||Had a whole false climax||

[quaint tendon]

How fresh was the OG series for you when you had read it

[wraith lynx]

Agreed. Its funny because I like TSiaSoA (omg that acronym) for its characters, and the IC for its world, but both are fun in their own right!

[main wren]

I call it To Sleep which the same number of letters but is easier to parse lol

[quaint tendon]

that is a long acronym

[quaint burrow]

RR 43 ||nailed it||

RR 44 ||I NEVER DOUBTED YOU MUSTANG||

Red Rising done

Please tell me that Golden Son is available

[minor sleet]

Ok official conclusion re: is the novel Starship Troopers pro or anti fascism: Heinlein is officially anti fascist and would say that if he’d been asked, but he was in love with his time in the military and things that is the superior way to do things

[wraith lynx]

AS 002 ||Awwww his mom still made the suit!! ||

[snow vessel]

Cosmic are you reading Absolute superman 👀

[wraith lynx]

YES

🤩

Haze.... haze i loves it so much

You were so right

AS + WoTM ||He is very Vis coded, right down to how I imagined how Vis's hair looked (kinda long and very emo 😂)||

||Clark having all these fond memories of suus Krypton, too... its SCRATCHING my noggin 🥴||

[snow vessel]

I told youuu

Its so good

[wraith lynx]

AS 003 ||Good gravy, Clark's mom is a baddie||

[snow vessel]

AS 003 ||you can totally see how she's Clark's mom. It runs in the family||

[wraith lynx]

AS General ||I really REALLLLY wanna say how much I like this more than.... pretty much every superman medium ive seen. Theres struggle here that i can resonate with and it makes it all the easier for me to root for him||

AS 004 ||And as soon as i say this, the comic opens with a panel of all the brown people hes helped 😌💕 i love it here, truly||

[snow vessel]

AS general ||I feel like they've really leant into these like... hero of the people/low class parts of the character hard and it works||

[long sorrel]

I'm going to buy my aunt a book for her bday and I don't know which

[wraith lynx]

Do you have a pool you want to pick from at least?

[long sorrel]

The fact that it has to exist in Spanish throws me off so bad

[long sorrel]

No... I thought of Tainted Cup but it's not translated yet I think

[wraith lynx]

Awww darn :((

[long sorrel]

I have thought of WotM but I'm not sure its her thing

That one is in Spanish

Im of a mind of buying Thornhedge in catalan

But my mom's against it... though my mom hasn't read it

[swift flint]

Katabasis 25 ||Knowing this was a Kuang book I should’ve expected it, but dang Peter’s just gone like that 😭 ||

[snow vessel]

Katabasis 25 ||I don't think I even totally understood at first||

[lusty meteor]

Movie is def anti fascist

[minor sleet]

https://www.tumblr.com/hood-ex/797520563997392896/batmansuperman-worlds-finest-44

[tight kindle]

I'm really starting to see what people like in period romance

Of course this one has magic which helps

But it's a fun setting

[hidden jolt]

I have worked my way through my entire TBR and I need more books to read

please give recommendations

[analog geode]

Genres?

[hidden jolt]

preferrably high fantasy but any will do

[analog geode]

Earthsea

I’m currently reading Priory of the Orange Tree and it’s very good so far

[hidden jolt]

any good low fantasy, actually?

[cloud socket]

oooh excerpt from the upcoming final Book of Dust novel
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/oct/16/lyras-last-story-exclusive-extract-from-philip-pullmans-final-installment-in-the-book-of-dust-trilogy

[analog geode]

The New York Magician

Urban low fantasy

Technically a collection of short stories, but same character

[hidden jolt]

mmm

[small bloom]

Ohh I love that book

Recently read the short prequel that came out this year, really made me want to reread Priory

[quaint burrow]

Anyone has recommendations for the unreliable narrator trope?

[ripe tide]

I mean I have to say Book of the New Sun.

But of course that is not a series you approach normally.

[quaint burrow]

How do I approach such a series

[ripe tide]

With a dictionary

And also knowing it’s going to require quite a bit of mental effort and energy.

[marble sinew]

Maybe Name of the Wind, we'll find out if Doors of Stone ever happens

[hidden jolt]

thoughts on the expanse

I've heard good things about it

[hollow hedge]

fairly popular here

[cloud socket]

best of contemporary sci-fi imo (caveat: I have not read adrian tchaikovsky or a bunch of other things yet)

also a rare solid adaptation (the co-authors were heavily involved in that, though)

also a series I listened to entirely on audiobook because Jefferson Mays is an excellent narrator (not to be confused with DCC's Jeff Hays who is good in a different way)

[analog geode]

I read the first book, imo it didn’t know what genre it wanted to be, very tonally dissonant

[tight kindle]

Yeah I got tonal whiplash from it but it evened out in the second book

I just loaned out three of my favorite books (Somewhere Beyond the Sea, Under the Whispering Door, and The Starless Sea) to someone I met forty five minutes ago

[quaint tendon]

my best friend still has my hardcover bartimaeus books

[hidden jolt]

hows neuromancer

[wet belfry]

Genre hopping is an intentional choice the series makes, each book (or sometimes group of books) picks up a different secondary genre

If that bothers you absolutely not the series for you

[wet belfry]

Only really starting in the second season, for what its worth. They were on set for much of the first season but they made a point of being very hands off and learning about how TV worked generally and how the studio making the show worked in specific

And the first season made a lot of very good choices with respect to adaptation

[north scaffold]

Yup this is one of The Expanse's core shticks.

[north scaffold]

The co-authors were so heavily involved that they just became friends with the cast and the actors influenced how they thought about the characters later in the book series.

[ivory cypress]

and also the authors were able to wrap their heads around tv writing and how it would be different

there were LOTS of changes from the books and it was interesting to read some BTS stuff about how they were extremely NOT precious about keeping things "the same as the books"

[cloud socket]

Yeah, at least from the episodes of Ty and That Guy I've watched re: behind the scenes, they really liked their show runner and how he did things

[brazen pilot]

ngl actually reading the books, this didn't feel like it was the case at all

i expected it to be much more the case than it was

[cloud socket]

Camina Drummer absorbs a bunch of book side character plots in the show

[cloud socket]

Been a while since I read it but it's definitely a classic

[lusty meteor]

it feels like the expanse settles into what an Expanse Book is and then changes setting and some plot stuff

[wet belfry]

I feel like they were the most heavy-handed with it in the first and fourth books and final trilogy, but I was definitely cognizant of it reading it initially before they specifically said that was a thing they were doing

[north scaffold]

Naren Shankar is a baller. I kinda wonder what he's up to now.

[wet belfry]

It certainly helps I think that Ty had some Hollywood connections prior to the Expanse project starting, and that both Ty and Dan went in knowing very well the stereotypes about authors being involved in movie/TV projects among professionals in that field

(Those stereotypes are mostly Stephen King's fault)

[minor sleet]

https://www.tumblr.com/kushblazer666/791921208482496512/ya-romantasy-author-ordering-breakfast-yeah-could

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[hollow hedge]

The Expanse is basically why I know I wouldn’t enjoy a live action Stormlight adaptation, because they did everything about as right as you possibly could, a lot of people loved it, and I still didn’t

I liked season 3 but that might have just been because I didn’t like book 3

[long sorrel]

I liked the expanse adaptation minus season 5 and 6

Actually didn't even finish 6

it was so 💤 for me

[tight kindle]

A Marvellous Light 6 ||It makes sense based on the time period but man does it add an element of pain every time a book reveals that it's illegal to be gay.||

[analog geode]

Very good

[hidden jolt]

👍

[untold leaf]

WotM 5 ||Ooh, the guy from the prison is here at the orphanage for Vis, now things are getting really tense. 😬||

[light drum]

Ooooh im super excited

[light drum]

Dark Age ||Stars the battle her jd amazing. "The world was a garden filled with mushrooms" goes hard||

[quaint tendon]

Eye of the Bedlam Bride 18 || oh my god the AI is shutting off the feed of the foot massage for everyone but itself||

https://tenor.com/view/screaming-internally-spongebob-spongebob-scream-intensifies-gif-6589653077021924320

[junior dew]

|| I swear if Matt doesn’t have a foot fetish I would be so shocked ||

[quaint tendon]

What’s the internet joke

When you do it for the meme for too long it’s not for the meme anymore

Like me with the word Hella

[peak grove]

Now starting

A real cheery book I know

[quaint tendon]

Sometimes you just need to read history

[snow vessel]

Finished the story I was reading. Not sure if I want to move straight on to the next one in this omnibus, or take a break to read dracula/midnight tides

[light drum]

Dark Age ||Lysandrt fighting for his life. Darrow: "We brush into light resistance"||

[snow vessel]

Memnoch the devil ch7 ||yknow, I'm glad lestat is being smarter with memnoch than he was with raglan||

[small bloom]

WotM/SotF interlude 👀 https://d1hbl61hovme3a.cloudfront.net/assets_us/interlude-confessiones-ad-mortuos.pdf

@wraith lynx

[small bloom]

Serves as a nice refresher of what happened in WotM for those who need it

[wraith lynx]

Yeah i high key needed this 😂

I read it back in march and while It infested itself into my brain grooves this is still nice

Im so unbearable hyped fot SoTF

Got me all like

https://tenor.com/view/futurama-philip-j-fry-drooling-fry-philip-gif-3846351

[craggy wadi]

A few chapters in and they should make a show out of this

[ripe tide]

Hahah. You know there’s one I’m assuming

[tight kindle]

AH

excited wiggle

[tight kindle]

That was really good.
Not enough new stuff to spoil anything but enough to make we want moooooore

[wet belfry]

Might even be good enough for two

[light drum]

Dark Age 37 (Reread) ||Not them blindly trusting the character named Xenophon, like I know my history, I dont remeber how dark age ends but like||

[quaint burrow]

GS 9 ||bingo||

[snow vessel]

Memnoch the devil 10 ||Armand!!!!!||

[quaint burrow]

GS 10 ||I love this Theodora||

[merry galleon]

In two days when Oath of the wolf is released to general public.

Me: GIMME!

[low hill]

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/picture/2025/oct/19/tom-gauld-on-limited-editions-cartoon

[minor sleet]

(Because it’s just this cartoon)

[long sorrel]

As a break from my 8 books I'm reading a 9 book that is pretty fun

I think I got it on my tbr from here, tho I'm not sure from who

Masters of Death

[low hill]

The Olivia Blake?

[long sorrel]

Yeh

Was it from you?

[low hill]

I have read it, so possibly me...

[analog geode]

I have finished Priory of the Orange Tree! It was amazing one of my new favorites
||The world is so fascinating and the characters were very well written. I loved Ead and her growth||

[long sorrel]

Half of my tbr comes from you, a third from Grey, and the rest is sprinkled

[low hill]

Sounds about right. And for a fairly diverse mix of books. :P

[long sorrel]

Yup

Current tbr is 200 books

[low hill]

Mmm. Sounds good to me.

[long sorrel]

Anyway, the book is really fun and the prose is very entertaining

Like, I wouldn't want to read many books like this but every now and then I appreciate the goofy

Also Vi and Fox are

[minor sleet]

My Libby holds have gotten out of hand

[long sorrel]

I'm like 120p in or so

[minor sleet]

I’m at 44 holds, maxed out across several libraries

[long sorrel]

Uh oh

[minor sleet]

Plus nine loans (mostly audiobooks so I will be able to read them before they lapse)

This is functionally my tbr list, along with a handful of physical books I own

[long sorrel]

Just do nothing but read, this is healthy, wise advise

[analog geode]

I need to write down my tbr, it’s so long

[minor sleet]

Already on it, boss

[long sorrel]

I did know I could believe in you.

I've been on a gaming spree so I'm reading slowly

[minor sleet]

Failing to take your own advice

[idle trellis]

I dont have time to game, so I was looking for a book version of battlefield 6

[long sorrel]

... I guess I'm reading normally

[royal carbon]

Hmm, just reading sounds nice

[long sorrel]

I don't have 20k books on holds

[royal carbon]

I usually only have a few books checked out on Libby, have to save some for everyone else.

[minor sleet]

I only have 9 checked out and I expect to finish most of them inside the week

[long sorrel]

Nice

[minor sleet]

The one that’s gonna take longer is a Tad Williams

[ivory cypress]

my library tends to only have books over a certain threshold of popularity and recency on their Libby 😔 good for checking out new books I'm not sure I'll like (Schwab and Abercrombie's latest are on hold for me now) but not for checking out older catalogs

[royal carbon]

I have run into issues with full series not being available

[ivory cypress]

but my Libby didn't even have a strange and stubborn endurance, so that gives an idea of the recency and popularity threshold "requirements"

[long sorrel]

Ah... at least new books are more expensive so it saves you that

I think the newest Schwab book is proooobably up your alley with a lot of asterisks

[royal carbon]

Which one is that?

[ivory cypress]

we'll see!

[minor sleet]

Public library of Seattle my beloved

They have almost everything and they stock more all the time

[long sorrel]

Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil

[minor sleet]

I signed up during Covid despite not living there and they somehow haven’t dropped me since

[royal carbon]

Ah, I have that physically somewhere

[minor sleet]

If you want more lgbt books the Queer Liberation Library is free to join for anyone

The main catch is that they’re so slow to get anything

[royal carbon]

Hmm, I wonder if they are still accepting people not in Seattle

[minor sleet]

If you pay a fee maybe?

Some libraries will take outside the tax base users if you pay to join the library for a year

Also check out local big cities/state capitols because their library system is often open to citizens of the entire state

[analog geode]

They let me join the city of LA library system even though I’m not in the city

[royal carbon]

Hmm, I should look at the school library

[ripe tide]

Yeah. I got the Durham library on my Libby as soon as I got my university card

[quaint burrow]

There is also a library called Ithra, it's free you just sign up on their website, and they have a ton of books (I just rented Golden Son)

[main wren]

I was in between books for awhile not being in the mood to start a new one, and It's a Love Skate Relationship has been waiting for me for awhile from someone recommending it. A few minutes in I got into it. It hooks you early on
-# literally

[hollow forum]

it's a shame that both Temeraire and Horatio Hornblower are a bit unknown nowadays so there's no crossover fics 😔

[analog geode]

Temeraire is basically a fic tbh

[hollow forum]

true lmao

[analog geode]

I should reread Hornblower

[hollow forum]

it is very horatio hornblower with dragons

[analog geode]

It actually began as Aubrey-Maturin fanfic

[hollow forum]

which as far as I'm concerned means it's better horation hornblower lmao

oh I did hear about that somewhere!

I think in the end notes for the first book Novik talks about that?

or it's an interview or smth

[analog geode]

She was one of the founders of AO3

[hollow forum]

I knew that once too!

I think

I should reread Master and Commander

[analog geode]

I’m having a lot of trouble with it

[hollow forum]

oof

[ripe tide]

I need to finish the last book of Temeraire

[analog geode]

Do itttt

[ivory cypress]

i think i made it to victory of eagles

but i do own all of them

[minor sleet]

From What Stalks the Deep by T Kingfisher

[buoyant whale]

LOVED THAT

goated book

[ivory cypress]

LOVED this writing

[long sorrel]

Are you still midway?

[buoyant whale]

ye

[long sorrel]

Masters of Death really is being a fun read. I'm 70% in now, kinda want to stay up and finish even though I shouldn't

[tight kindle]

A Marvellous Light 9 ||This book is adorable and SO trope-y. Like Robin falling into the lake and climbing out with his shirt wet? That's just so delightfully cliche.||

[low hill]

My worry appears to have been correct, but at least I'm finished now.

Onto Ascension next, Usha.

[long sorrel]

You gonna read book 2 before 1?

[low hill]

Oh, whichever one is first. I don't remember, it's in a different room.

I only own the first one, so I can't make a mistake in person. :P

[main wren]

I've read book 2 of a series before book 1 before.

it wasn't really as much as problem as I'd have thought

(it was an accident because I didn't know it was part of a series at the time)

[low hill]

Yeah, I've done it when they weren't clearly part of a series on the front or back cover.

It just reads as though there's a lot of backstory that's being implied rather than stated, and you do a little more work to catch up, but its still readable.

[long sorrel]

Well Ascension >>>> Evocation

but still, read Evocation first =P

[low hill]

Maybe...

[long sorrel]

I am very curious of your opinion 👀

Oh I almost finished Masters of Death

the writing is so fun

Have you read other stuff by this author?

[low hill]

Yep.

[loud atlas]

I don’t know much about maps but this looks to me like one of the worst fantasy maps I’ve ever seen (this is from a ln I’m reading)

[long sorrel]

it does look quite mid

but maybe it makes sense within the story?

[alpine drum]

it is very funny to call that "World Map"

[cloud socket]

looks like the DM picked names from things they saw. peers out the window I guess it's uhhh SubarTU

[analog geode]

No giant evil mountain? It definitely sucks

[loud atlas]

I hope so because the countries are litterly just blobs the same size

[analog geode]

They look like long lemons to me

[wraith lynx]

I dont think it would be so bad if each blob wasnt so... empty?? 😅

Like Subaru land just apparently has half a forest 💀

[quaint tendon]

Those borders look like they were less decided and more vaguely okayed

[cloud socket]

also food production seems to rely entirely on Randall unless there's lots of unnamed farms elsewhere

[proper silo]

I love how there's no like, duchy of anything, it's just: Duchy

And the fact that each state, even the unnamed ones, has roughly the same shape is kinda interesting

[cloud socket]

or like, Haydn and Cadiz are duchies maybe? pulled from their european history textbook

[analog geode]

The Farm looks like the size of a Duchy in that case

[proper silo]

Like I could see it working with specific geographical conditions (a sort of "lunar craters" kind of landscape that could hint and some ancient and destructive conflict), but I don't know if the author had thought that far

[loud atlas]

could be a world building thing, I'm still early on

[proper silo]

Also, do you guys thing that Haydn and Cadiz are regions or cities?

[idle trellis]

It gives me the " I wrote a fantasy novel and publishers have asked me for a map and I don't really feel like making one" vibe

[proper silo]

Also Subartu and Randall don't have a capital, I guess

[analog geode]

I bet they are the kings and the “of” is possessive

[idle trellis]

Lol it's Brando's sandos next cosmere world, governed by the shard Apathy

[proper silo]

there's like... a beginning of something that could potentially be interesting with this map (like I said, each country being the same shape could hint at some curious world backstory), but it clearly needs multiple more iterations before it looks complete

[loud atlas]

I think "worst" is an exaggeration but I was taken aback by it

[hybrid kettle]

I agree. Never seen a case where countries look that much like potatoes

[quaint tendon]

No survivor type this time, it’s the Aloofor

[proper silo]

hm. looking I think Haydn and Cadiz are meant to be cities within the Duchy that is within Ashbury

[marble sinew]

You know, the wildest thing about this map is the fact that the unnamed countries to the north should be like 10x more threatening than the coastal rivals (assuming a war/politics story)

[proper silo]

how much are y'all willing to bet that Ashbury is where the bulks of the plot takes place?

[quaint tendon]

I live right next to a place called Asbury Park

Where is this author from

[hybrid kettle]

ChatGPT could've drawn a better one

[analog geode]

Well it is a ln

Can you really expect a lot?

[loud atlas]

yep you are correct

[quaint tendon]

What is this light novel called

[loud atlas]

https://global.bookwalker.jp/ded1034b03-9010-4893-ab8c-e450bbf6e78c/

[quaint tendon]

Victoria of many faces

But not many right angles in maps

[marble sinew]

Going left->right 1->4, my guess is 1 is the enemy nation, 2 is where the MC lives, 3 is where the MC flees to, and 4 is the neighbouring power they barter an army from

[analog geode]

Well yeah, right angles limit the number of faces, you want the angles to be as large as possible

[proper silo]

Chloe spends her days carrying out secret missions for the kingdom of Hagl.
explains why Hagl is the only other country on this map with a capital

[hybrid kettle]

Is that a villainess ln

[valid cloud]

Ah, it's a SpyxFamily like, and carries over the same level of worldbuilding.

[proper silo]

nope, the description suggests it's a "retired spy/assassin takes care of a child but the past comes knocking" type of story

[quaint tendon]

Fair point I suppose 🤔

[hybrid kettle]

I did think it was unfortunate SxF didn't delve into it

[valid cloud]

It bothered me enough that I dropped the show/manga at the end of S1 (or maybe S1 part 1?), haha

[hybrid kettle]

When I started SxF I assumed it would be a blend of comedy and serious arcs like Gintama

from the premise presented

[proper silo]

Also it's really funny to me that the description talks about how Victoria flees Hagl for a "neighboring kingdom of Ashbury" when Hagl and Ashbury are not neighbors on the map

[analog geode]

They’re neighbors! Just not next door neighbors!

[proper silo]

I've heard it was originally supposed to focus more on the spy side of things, but the publisher forced the author to pivot into more focus on Anya and her shenanigans cause it'd sell better

[hybrid kettle]

Oh dear publisher

[valid cloud]

It definitely worked for a lot of people! But it was really driving me crazy

[idle trellis]

Hey it could be on another plane of existence

[hybrid kettle]

Maybe there's a wormhole to Ashbury

I mean Hagl

[analog geode]

More fantasy books need giant holes in the ground

[hybrid kettle]

Made in Abyss!

[idle trellis]

Technically stormlight

[hybrid kettle]

Your pfp really resembles Bondrewd

What a coincidence Bean

[valid cloud]

That map is so sparse it reminds me of more classic fantasy, where the map was super simple and any named location was guaranteed to be visited.

[analog geode]

It’s a lightsaber

[valid cloud]

So you could say you practically already know the plot, lol

[hybrid kettle]

I generally think a series is better when it has more going on. SxF got stale after a while

[loud atlas]

okay at least this is theoretically more interesting than "europe in ww2 but slightly different" maps

[tight kindle]

Huh

My uni library has Vicious by V.E. Schwab

@long sorrel Didn't you want me to read that so I could commiserate with you about how gay it could have been?

[long sorrel]

-ish

it's perfect as is, but

[tight kindle]

Well maybe I should read it and then write a fanfic or something

[long sorrel]

lol

Vicious series general ||It is at least rather obsessive in a way that is a bit 👀 ||

[snow vessel]

Wait

I'm glad I saw this before starting the series

I thought it was gay 😭

[long sorrel]

Masters of Death 28 ||fox explaining love to death is being really funny||

[long sorrel]

Ok, that was a pretty fun read, fun prose, not too deep but just enough, fun characters, fun storytelling

[ivory cypress]

can't remember if I mentioned I'm going through the Saints of Steel books again, basically on a whim, and this hit me out of nowhere. just started crying

from Paladin's Faith

[long sorrel]

This is not a book id expect crying from but ey, some times we get hit out of nowhere

[ivory cypress]

it got me

[long sorrel]

Mhm

Arrrghh i need to now more of the overarching plot of that series 😩

[ivory cypress]

I hear Marcus's book ppp

might be next month

my phone scrambled out of my hands while trying to type haha

[long sorrel]

Lmao

I know we have a date for Daggerheart but idk how much that's gonna give us world-wise

Hopefully more white rat though

Wait, I didn't put Daggerheart in my calendar

[cunning pivot]

Started a reread of the dark profit saga books and these are so relevant and funny (but also it's sad how relevant they are) it's such a perfect blend of satire, fantasy tropes, and authorial voice

[long sorrel]

Daggerbound

Stop being dumb, brain

@tight kindle i decided to start book 2, A Restless Truth and, very minor ||the plot is ofc talking about the contract, so there's that||

Oh.... chapter 2 (this is actual spoilers) ||I thought the MCs were gonna be old, like old-old, grandma old. I got my hopes up, guess not||

[long sorrel]

||I love Violet 😳 ||

[quaint burrow]

GS 14 ||I have watched all your videos, Reaper. Six, maybe seven times.
Ofc the eight year old would say six seven||

GS 15 ||Hear me out..... the Sovereign...||

||"Who do you think Ares is?” “Your master.”
Daaaaaaamn||

[quaint tendon]

Bedlam bride 32 || oh goddammit samantha||

[snow vessel]

Memnoch 10 ||we're actually going to heaven?!?||

[low hill]

[Memnoch the Devil vague] ||It's a wild ride of a book.||

[long sorrel]

||I sure aint||

[snow vessel]

||its like... yes that's what the blurb and book has been setting up, but also, part of me didn't actually expect we'd do it||

[minor sleet]

https://www.thebookseller.com/rights/rf-kuang-signs-four-book-deal-with-harpercollins

@ripe tide

[ripe tide]

OMGGGG

[quaint burrow]

I NEEEED to read her three standalones

Waiting for my headphones to arrive so that I could listen to their audiobooks

[ripe tide]

I wonder if the title for the Taipei story will change. That's italicized here as if it were a title, and not a descriptor of the book.

[wraith lynx]

GS 15 ||Passing over mustang and going straight for the sovereign is diabolical behavior I will not lie||

[minor sleet]

If it’s coming out next year, I doubt it. Getting kinda late to change stuff depending on type setting time

[ripe tide]

I mean its fall next year, there's still a little bit of time.

There's a lot of work that can be done without finalizing the title. It is also possible that the title is different but it hasn't been announced publicly.

[quaint burrow]

GS 15+SA ||Cosmic...... Shallan or Navani?||

[somber timber]

||those are not the same!||

[quaint burrow]

||main character that has a dead older brother who was killed by either her lover's brother or crush that haunts the narrative. And an older badass woman who has a grandchild that she would give her life for.... (also the older woman is much hotter) ||

[snow vessel]

Memnoch 10 (I got the chapter wrong last time) ||holy storms how is "lestat goes to heaven and meets God" only book 5 of this series||

||how is there like... 8 more books of plot after meeting God||

||...are we doing the entire creation story here???||

[long sorrel]

Back to A Restless Truth 👀

[alpine drum]

ASOIAF ||I am certain this is the first time art has been done of Jaime and Cersei switching places as children but I love the art source||

[snow vessel]

Memnoch 11 ||what 😭 ||

[long sorrel]

A Restless Truth 12 ||So we have a promiscuous bi woman, Robin's sister who didn't even know women could have sex with women. A thief that gets extra side money writing erotica. MFing Hawthorn from book 1... this is going great . I love Maud, she's such an interesting character, but damn Violet is just so... me lmao||

13 ||our innocent girl is reading the erotica and going "why do they make the genitals with such weird names". SAME, GIRL||

||these people ||

[ivory cypress]

and back to Kingfisher's The Hollow Places for a reread

spooky reads this month!

and.... like all my spooky reads are Kingfisher's stuff

[snow vessel]

Someone here was reading the Deborah harkness witches books right?

[ancient bay]

OOOOF (ReZero arc 7)

[ivory cypress]

i've also had The Murders of Molly Southborne by Tade Thompson on my tbr forever and i just got that out in an afternoon today, very quick, very creepy

and there are more?

this guy does some sinister scifi stuff 👀

[ivory cypress]

I should take a tally of how many books Kingfisher mentions killdeer in it's a LOT and very specific

[light drum]

Light Bringer (reread) ||I love how absolutely insane The Minitar is||

[snow vessel]

I was bookshopping today and someone took the books I was looking at right before me 😭

[low hill]

Kill them.

[minor sleet]

They’re very silly birds

[analog geode]

Kingfishers?

[minor sleet]

Look at me!!! My wing is 100% broken!!! Follow me, I’m helpless!! This way!! Further from the nest!!! Totally crippled birdie here!!!

Killdeer

[analog geode]

Do they kill deer

[minor sleet]

https://youtu.be/4t0sFIW-G_0?si=J7DRCvVRUWnyelIk

The call sounds “kill-deer”

https://youtu.be/m3C0fKupR10?si=YNQhNixGett1r0bd

[hollow forum]

what is that from?

[loud atlas]

Victoria of Many Faces

[hollow forum]

the premise is interesting

[ivory cypress]

ok I've finished my Kingfisher reread binge

time to see if Philip Chase has hands

Way of Edan ||it's a little too close to Christianese but I guess that's the point, if it's taking a little after GGK in that it's sort of Earth-y and meant to be. just wincing a bit||

[long sorrel]

Greeeeey, there's a chance I'll get to Witch Roads after my current read. It's been in my head since you told me the new book comes out in a couple of weeks that I should read it ASAP 👀

[ivory cypress]

MMMMM

good

I can't wait to take a look at my author gender stats at the end of this year

should be interesting

[long sorrel]

Maybe I should add that to my calibre just out of curiosity

I know for sure this year I've read a lot more female authors, last year was closer to a equal split

[ivory cypress]

I love data

in my spreadsheet outside of storygraph, I have gender, race, if the author is queer (and out, too, obvi), year published, personal star rating...

[long sorrel]

so do I but I don't wanna manually input

I have star rating and a couple more things on my calibre directly

[ivory cypress]

Calibre just has a few too many steps/clicks to enter the data for me to use it as my main

[long sorrel]

yeah that's fair

well, I think it has like 1 -2 clicks after it's set up, but it's kind of a pain to set up

[sage crystal]

I just finished The Will of The Many

And uhhhhh what

What is that ending

I guess I have to read the sequel now

[long sorrel]

well, not now, in 3 weeks

but ch 1 of the sequel is out

[rare edge]

Reminds of the safety audit video guy who does safety checks of locations in video games and movies.

Starting His Dark Materials to try and finish catching up before the weekend for Book of Dust 3!

[tight kindle]

I found more Schwab in the library

[long sorrel]

You should read that, too.

[tight kindle]

I need to read these

[long sorrel]

A Restless Truth continues to have me 👀

[quaint tendon]

bedlam bride 46 || OH MY GOD THEY MADE CARL INTO A MANOSPHERE INFLUENCER POKÉMON CARD. And King Crescent?! How dare they.||

[tight kindle]

1/2
The other delivery is getting here on Saturday. I'm just missing one book. (I'm also getting a copy of House of Leaves but that's my roommate's that I ordered for him)

[low hill]

@uncut shoal You read the Alex Verus novels, right? Did you read them in ebook format?

[uncut shoal]

Yes, and yes I did!

[low hill]

I don't suppose your reader tells you the word count, or if it's something easily work-outable?

[uncut shoal]

Ummmm let me check

[low hill]

Any one of them would be fine. They're basically all the same size.

[uncut shoal]

I have the first 4 in a single file so book 5 is 96297 words long

The first 4 together are 372052

[low hill]

Thank you. :)

[quaint tendon]

Bedlam bride 51 reaction

https://tenor.com/view/jon-stewart-eat-eating-popcorn-watching-gif-3094746547306242594

https://tenor.com/view/rage-comics-table-flip-gif-25874129

[ancient bay]

ReZero Arc 7 ||I FORGOT HE WAS STILL CROSSDRESSING||

This is a fascinating scene. ||It goes back to that scene from Arc 3 where Al thought she was Ram, but now instead of being like "So that's what's going on. Makes me sick.", he's instead able to rationalize it differently because of Gluttony. I forgot that Al wouldn't remember Rem, and that his confusion with her would be lost along with that.||

[snow vessel]

Memnoch 11 ||I wonder how on earth the TV show plans to adapt this||

||if they even do||

[low hill]

My guess is not...

[snow vessel]

Mmm yeah probably

Like, ||all the craziness aside just the plot itself feels like it'd risk alienating a lot of people||

||the idea of lestat getting taught the true religious creation story or whatever||

||I expect they'll do TQOTD and they're almost certainly doing body thief but I could see them skipping Memnoch. Though [speculation] I assume there'd probably be some future things (like lestat himself) that are effected by this book, so maybe they'd have to change some of that||

[low hill]

[Vampire Chronicles all but vague, no real plot I think] ||There are things from Memnoch that thread through the later books for sure, but honestly after Body Thief they divide into two camps: books about other characters and their history and ... the weird ones like Memnoch. And if they carry on adapting books it wouldn't be too hard just to skip over the weird ones and find other ways to include any character growth.||

[long sorrel]

You can probably adapt parts of this one that are relevant into the adjacent books

[snow vessel]

I know this isn't what you mean but I'm just imagining [memnoch up to 11] ||lestat being halfway through whatever side quest he's on next and then just getting whisked up to heaven for a few minutes||

||and then continuing as normal after||

[long sorrel]

That'd be perfect

[minor sleet]

About to start my Adrian Tchaikovsky Quest

I just finished my Heinlein quest and what I learned is that I don’t like Robert Heinlein

More specifically: despite his iconic status the reason people don’t read Heinlein anymore is that his books beat you over the head with his political ideas, which mostly suck and aren’t interesting; he isn’t very fun to read, especially his books after the 1970s; and his misogyny is somehow worse than Asimov, probably because he has more prominent female characters to ogle and because Asimov wasn’t into preteen girls

[snow vessel]

memonch 11 ||yknow, Memnoch's tale is actually pretty solid. I get the feelings he was feeling||