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Book roundup, part 40
Includes American Gun, I Want to Burn This Place Down, Blood Royal, Scorpio and Corvus.
Book roundup, part 39
Includes Empire of AI, Crossroads of Ravens, The Tainted Cup, and A Drop of Corruption.
Four months of a new knee
Recovery from a total knee replacement is a bit of a bear, but so worth it for a person with chronic pain.
Book roundup, part 38
Includes Dark Wire, The Crusaders, Dominion, The Mercy of Gods, Livesuit, and Weaponized.
Long-haul flight tips from a grizzled veteran of the air
A few tips that might make your next long-haul flight less terrible.
Book roundup, part 37
Includes Doppelgänger, Be Useful, Rose/House, System Collapse, and Empire of the Wolf.
Book roundup, part 36
Includes Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing, Extremely Online, Number Go Up, Mercury Rising, The End of the Myth, and The Big Break.
Trip report to Sweden summer 2023
Nic has travel experiences and wishes he thought he was immortal like other people apparently do.
Airport vibes are bad and you will feel bad
I have a ten hour layover at Chicago O’Hare and it’s terrible.
Book roundup, part 35
Includes Hello World, A Frozen Hell, Powers and Thrones, Dead Country, Blitz, The Hope that Kills, and Worth Killing For.
Electric cars are fun, dammit
Let’s talk about how fun it is to have a go-cart people mover.
Book roundup, part 34
We pour one out for The Expanse and Sandman Slim, and we raise our glasses for a sequel to Malazan. Also, an extra-bleak Holocaust tour and a discussion of how cults control their members through language. Includes Cultish, Nein, Nein, Nein, Driven, Happy-go-Lucky, The Nineties, Fargo Rock City, The Scholast in the Low Water Kingdom, King Bullet, The God is Not Willing, and Leviathan Falls.
Book roundup, part 33
Why your body hurts, lots of politics, and some truly demented grimdark fantasy in this installment. Includes Reign of Terror, Evolution Gone Wrong, The Cruelty is the Point, How to be a Liberal, The Splendid and the Vile, Deep Work, A Desolation Called Peace, Black Stone Heart, and She Dreams in Blood.
Watching M*A*S*H in a pandemic
You never know how a creative expression will affect you.
Book roundup, part 32
Includes Everybody Has a Podcast (Except You), Pappyland, Backstory, and Medallion Status.
Hummingbird Dog Fight
Hummingbirds fighting for dominance in a Phoenix backyard.