I feel happy for everyone taking joy in this moment. I don’t feel much of anything for it though. It’s wildly neutral.

NK Jemisen’s The Fifth Season has some of the most beautiful prose I read in the genre. Stunning and intimate.

I just finished Gardens of the Moon. In order to keep track of everyone, I made my own wiki. It felt like watching Eriksson play a war game.

I’m taking a break as the style isn’t interesting to me. I hear his writing becomes more intimate and visceral in the rest of the series. Looking forward to this in book 2. Sort of wish I started with book 2 since none or few of the characters carry over.

There are six, which, by modern standards isn’t much. The first three came out in a four year time span and was an attempt to answer the question, “What was Gandalf’s youth like?” This was before Tolkien answered these questions publicly.

Twenty some odd years later, she wrote Tehanu. It was, from what I remember, an attempt to answer her critiques who said she had written a series where magic was not accessible to women. Then ten years after that she finished with two more books. The first of the two was a bunch of short stories that fill in some corners of the stories prior.

That genocide was going to happen no matter who you vote for?

She supports Isreal’s attacks on the civilian population of its far less powerful neighbors both rhetorically and materially.

Shrinkflation! Must have taken a cold shower.