I just finished The Golem and the Jinni, Helene Wecker, which was such a nice and interesting book. The story was slow and well paced without feeling slow, and was clever in the use of seemingly bit characters weaving their way back into the plot. It was refreshing to have most of the conflicts and plot points be solved by expanded knowledge, rather than violence.

Next I’m going to read The Buffalo Hunter Hunter, Stephen Graham Jones, which has good reviews.

Thanks for the insight!

Cool, appreciate the context. And this applies both to the repetition between chapters and within a particular chapter?

I just finished The Monkey and the Monk: An Abridgment of The Journey to the West, Wu Cheng’en, Anthony C. Yu (Translator), after attempting to read the primary work. Being exposed to western mythologies, I was very interested in exploring other cultural touchstones. I almost dropped it due to the enormity of the novel, but decided to switch to the abridged version. I’m glad I didz even if my heart didn’t like the concept of an abridgment.

Overall, it was interesting, and I’m glad I read it but there must be some context regarding all the repetition within a single chapter that I’m missing. I can’t count how many times a character explains, word for word, what has just happened to another character. I theorize two reasons. Either that the repetition is for emphasis(though this seemed inconsistent), or in Chinese there is symmetry in the placement on the page.

As a palette cleanser I just sped through The Dungeon Anarchist’s Cookbook Matt Dinniman which was fun and easy.

I’m very interested to see what you think once you finish Demon in White. I interpreted that the between context was intentionally omitted to show time has passed, but I hear what you’re saying.

Bandwidth throttling knows what you’ve done.

(Super rad)

This is sick. It makes mobile updates to OSM nice and easy. Thanks for sharing!

Looks great! Maybe stupid question, but what does ventilating fix? Aka, why are sealed built-ins an issue?

Working my way through “The Monkey and the Monk” translated by Anthony C. Yu after giving up on the unabridged “The Journey to the West.” Boy there is a lot of repetition… It’s a bit of a slog but I want to get through it.

Looks pretty neat!