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I read the Annihilation book, and watched the movie back to back. Might be the unusual case where a movie is as good or better than...

My lovingly handcrafted custom bookshelves were made for mass market books. Sadness.

I just finished The Butcher's Masquerade, book five of Matt Dinniman's Dungeon Crawler Carl saga. This book is a return to form for the...

Not up do date with third episode, just wanted to chime in that I enjoyed the second episode much more and start to be invested in the...

...bonus actions are not junior actions: they're special features limited to exactly one per turn, on your turn only (and only if...

This is what Mike Mearls said about them on YTube.

It has, particularly novellas. Amazon’s program of sets of 5-7 short stories as anthologies exists and flourishes, for example. Tor.com...

Its insane how much better I feel since I strictly limit the addictive social media and my news consumption and other information...

Read Don’t Burn Anyone at the Stake Today by Naomi Alderman, which is an excellent discussion of how social media and the modern...

Yeah, even since I was a teenager in the late 90s it is a total collapse. Heck, not even just short fiction, the same marketplace and...

Catch-up time. I had to shelve a reread of the Book of the New Sun. Just too damn much stress right now. Four Lost Cities, by Analee...

Working my way through Tailored Realities, the new anthology collecting Brandon Sanderson's Science Fiction short stories and novellas...

Uh oh. 😂 That said, it was probably necessary for this show. From what I have read of Stormlight Archives, absolutely not necessary there.

haha no, in Murderbot his internal thoughts and meanderings are quite important and most importantly: entertaining! The inner monologues...

Oh, for Murder ot it was a absolute necessity...the novels are fully first person with tremendous interiority. While I like the...