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I've read the first two books in the Florin and Lorenzo series and am about to start the third. They're set in the Warhammer Fantasy...

Sometimes a story simply needs a longer space to run. Sometimes it doesn't, but suggests successor stories. The biggest risk is when...

I hope no one reading this topic needs to hear this, but for the love of god people please stop eating into your microphones.

"Stone and Sky" the latest Rivers of London book (though ironically, this one takes place in Scotland). As usual, the author manages to...

A few more "Josephine Tey Mysteries" by Nicola Upson... #4 Fear in the Sunlight has some things about Hitchcock that are neat, but it...

I haven’t read Wintersmith. Making a note to fix that. I’m two-thirds through Shadows Upon Time, and it is being a superb conclusion...

Finished Wintersmith, which was a really wonderful Tiffany Aching novel, maybe Pratchett's best, and a very seasonal book. Strongly...

So going back to books before this becomes YET ANOTHER star wars thread, I looked in on my interlibrary loan, and they are still looking...

Fair, I was thinking of the difference between a kind of enthusiastic cluelessness kinda common among nerds and something more...

Pretty similar, I gather. Egyptian paintings show cats sitting under people’s chairs at banquets, drinking from bowls set down for them...

Maybe I’m just grumpy today - new meds + a cold will do that - but I think sufficiently oblivious ignoring of context to go on about a...

The ancient Egyptian name for cats, the oldest known human word for the species, was miw. Cats be catting. Also of note, there are no...

wish we got more of those that set out to be those, we sort of get them but mostly someone stopped a thing reaching its completion...

…and that’s why my favorite space opera is Akira Kurosawa’s High And Low.