2 books i didn't totally understand
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isunshoweritem a: terry pratchett's jingo. discworld is always some good fun but this one felt a little heavyhanded in terms of its messaging. like it is just so so so obviously screaming war is bad! xenophobia is bad! which obviously i agree with but i suppose it felt as though it lacked some subtlety. also i lost the thread of some of the plot twist at the end. like oh, 71-hour ahmed is good now? ok. sure. this might as well happen. i'm midway through fifth elephant though and am enjoying that one much better.
item b: frank herbert (yeah, the guy from dune)'s whipping star. it was on a list of... sci-fi books about stars, i think? i don't remember, but anyway it was circulating tumblr so i took out a hold. good mystery i guess but i just struggled so hard to parse what was going on. which i suppose is the point. but it was just really hard to follow and i didn't pick up on any of the clues that supposedly pointed mckie to anything about what was going on. iunno. so ultimately didn't enjoy either of those too much.
HAVE been enjoying my firefighter show tho. expect a long post about evan "bisexual disaster" buckley incoming.
item b: frank herbert (yeah, the guy from dune)'s whipping star. it was on a list of... sci-fi books about stars, i think? i don't remember, but anyway it was circulating tumblr so i took out a hold. good mystery i guess but i just struggled so hard to parse what was going on. which i suppose is the point. but it was just really hard to follow and i didn't pick up on any of the clues that supposedly pointed mckie to anything about what was going on. iunno. so ultimately didn't enjoy either of those too much.
HAVE been enjoying my firefighter show tho. expect a long post about evan "bisexual disaster" buckley incoming.
