Month: January 2023

#dungeon23, Days 10-20: Medium Lunar Fragment

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This entry is part 2 of 8 in the series #dungeon23

This post is part of a series detailing my participation in #dungeon23. Feel free to follow the link above to check out the series in order, or see the first post in the series if you don’t know what this project is. Days 10-20 were a bit of a challenge, mainly because our admins at work cheerfully made this week a hellish mess for anyone teaching a winter class. That is to say, this is rough, and yes, there were days when I jotted down a few days’ worth of entries to “catch up”; there were days where I got …

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The Books of 2022

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Update: Ooops. I published before I was done. I’ve updated it, making small revisions here and there, and adding the two remaining books I meant to mention. I was going to write about some honorable mentions, but eh, nah. I’m not giving awards, just mentioning books I liked.  ORIGINAL POST: Here they are:   My Library at LibraryThingI guess I’ll say a few words about which books were the standouts for me last year. You can see that below.

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Shiver by Junji Ito

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This entry is part 2 of 23 in the series 2023 Reads

I’m continuing with posting about the books I’ve read. The tag has changed to #booksread2023, but not much has changed: the posts get published with some lag—though I’m trying to shorten the lag a little, too. I’d had a reservation request on file with the local branch of the National Library for Shiver since sometime in early December. It took someone a long time to get it back to the library, apparently. I assume it was in a pile with some lengthier books, because personally it took me less than 24 hours to finish this one. Shiver is a collection of …

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The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories by Ken Liu

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This entry is part 55 of 56 in the series 2022 Reads

Update: This was scheduled to publish on January 1st, but somehow my blog didn’t publish it—I’m not sure why. That’s why it’s appearing now. (But it was the last thing I read in 2022, technically.) Original Post: As with other posts in this series, these #booksread2022 posts get published with some lag. I’m trying to be more punctual, though, and this one’s very recent. This is the last prose book I finished in 2022, though not the last thing I finished reading in 2022. (Look out for one more post in the next couple of days.) While I’ve read a …

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About the Wizards of the Coast OGL Thing

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I have not much comment, but this song has been running through my mind since the news cycle started to cascade through the Discords and other social media I’m on: If you don’t know what I’m talking about, it’s elfgame stuff and you would probably know if you cared, but just in case, well, see here, I guess. Social media is on fire with memes and hot takes and links to thinkpieces about it, and I don’t need to add to that.  But since I’m trying to start blogging again, okay, a few thoughts: I agree with everyone paying attention …

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