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Life
In which everything I had planned for this week has been cancelled for bad weather and unexpected guests.
I was working on cutting the weeds and blackberries back but the weather has gone foul so the helper and I can't get out to do it at the moment. I may not go very fast but it gets done eventually, provided it ever stops raining long enough.
I don't mind the rain though, it's always my favorite weather. I love watching it and how it makes the world seem cozier, at least to me. It's always better rain rather than too hot.
I was supposed to go to the gym with Pet!Mom tomorrow but she's got out-of-town guests showing up.
So since there's supposed to be a break in the weather tomorrow, out and at the weeds again instead!
Books
In which I try to get back in the swing of reading books instead of wasting away scrolling through the doom scroll of social medias.
I put several books on hold through the library, which of course means they all came available at the same time. Finished "Shards of Honor" by Lois McMaster Bujold and then the audiobook of "All the Birds in the Sky" by Charlie Jane Anders. Both audiobook versions have worked better for me actually finishing them than trying to read print. Neither physical or ebook seems to keep my interest long enough to finish, or in some cases, even start.
I've got "Neuromancer" by William Gibson on audio still, and "How to ADHD" by Jessica McCabe in print (we'll see how that goes, may try on the PC desktop for that one.) And then I've got some Tiktok hyped deal on hold I guess? Anyways, I'm going to give "Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries" a shot and see how it goes. That one is ebook as well, so it also just may not.
As far as how I liked the ones I read? Well...
Shards of Honor was fine, I liked the story well enough although I would have been happier I think with more detail as it felt like a very fast book. Also, and I'm not sure how to explain this really, the narrator took some getting used to. Like, he wasn't bad. But. There was a style to how he spoke, how he enunciated characters/the voice he gave them that threw me back to when I'd watch Turner Movie Classics. A real 1950s-60s vibe. Once I got past that, it was fine. It's always something about Baen books, I don't know.
I will say - I can see why people like "All the Birds in the Sky". I liked it well enough. But there were too many references to current things - music, social media like the bookface and the tweets, specific companies. It almost felt like product placement and it was too jarring. The storyline, the characters? I liked a lot of that. I know that its a book that if I was still working in the bookstore, I'd definitely recommend to people but it was not my cup of tea.
In which everything I had planned for this week has been cancelled for bad weather and unexpected guests.
I was working on cutting the weeds and blackberries back but the weather has gone foul so the helper and I can't get out to do it at the moment. I may not go very fast but it gets done eventually, provided it ever stops raining long enough.
I don't mind the rain though, it's always my favorite weather. I love watching it and how it makes the world seem cozier, at least to me. It's always better rain rather than too hot.
I was supposed to go to the gym with Pet!Mom tomorrow but she's got out-of-town guests showing up.
So since there's supposed to be a break in the weather tomorrow, out and at the weeds again instead!
Books
In which I try to get back in the swing of reading books instead of wasting away scrolling through the doom scroll of social medias.
I put several books on hold through the library, which of course means they all came available at the same time. Finished "Shards of Honor" by Lois McMaster Bujold and then the audiobook of "All the Birds in the Sky" by Charlie Jane Anders. Both audiobook versions have worked better for me actually finishing them than trying to read print. Neither physical or ebook seems to keep my interest long enough to finish, or in some cases, even start.
I've got "Neuromancer" by William Gibson on audio still, and "How to ADHD" by Jessica McCabe in print (we'll see how that goes, may try on the PC desktop for that one.) And then I've got some Tiktok hyped deal on hold I guess? Anyways, I'm going to give "Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries" a shot and see how it goes. That one is ebook as well, so it also just may not.
As far as how I liked the ones I read? Well...
Shards of Honor was fine, I liked the story well enough although I would have been happier I think with more detail as it felt like a very fast book. Also, and I'm not sure how to explain this really, the narrator took some getting used to. Like, he wasn't bad. But. There was a style to how he spoke, how he enunciated characters/the voice he gave them that threw me back to when I'd watch Turner Movie Classics. A real 1950s-60s vibe. Once I got past that, it was fine. It's always something about Baen books, I don't know.
I will say - I can see why people like "All the Birds in the Sky". I liked it well enough. But there were too many references to current things - music, social media like the bookface and the tweets, specific companies. It almost felt like product placement and it was too jarring. The storyline, the characters? I liked a lot of that. I know that its a book that if I was still working in the bookstore, I'd definitely recommend to people but it was not my cup of tea.