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Weeklog for Week 25: June 16 to June 22

Progress

Not a lot to say. Worked, played, didn't do a lot of permanent stuff.

Articles

Libraries, programming, etc

Books

  • The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles by Malka Older (Mossa and Pleiti, part two): more of the same, essentially, but even more British. It seems unfathomable to the author that a University could be publicly funded, and not have named libraries and buildings, and intense inter-department rivalries. Which is funny, because large parts of the world do it that way. The character is also even more weird, being so entirely untrusting of their relationship that every each tiny little flinch leads to deep emotions, while at the same time surviving attempted murder is barely worth mentioning. The resolution, again, is quick and hardly worth mentioning. I don't know why I keep reading these. 6.5/10
  • Red Side Story by Jasper Fforde: this continues on in the world of The Colourtocracy, and it reads wonderfully. I had this on my to-read list since before it was available, and I just found it again in a recommendation listThey are not completely useless, then. Unfortunately, it relies quite heavily on previous events, so I guess I'll have to read them again in the quite unfortunately-named
  • Shades of Gray by Jasper FfordeNote that this novel is from 2009, while the other, more widely-known similarly-named novel is from 2011. So it's not Mr Fforde's fault for having chosen a great title that was later superseded by the worst of titles.: I'm re-reading this, and it's as wonderful as it was last time. I had forgotten most of it, except the broad strokes, so re-connecting with the characters is very nice.

Games

  • Planet Crafter
  • Lightyear Frontier
  • Walkabout Minigolf

Other media

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