A Fan's Playground

Third and final in the Interdependency trilogy, and by this point in the series I was finding myself....bored. Look, as I said in my reviews on the previous books in this trilogy, the characterizations are shallow and the narrative tone is lightweight, even when the book is dealing with some fairly serious issues. I'm not given any reason to care about anything in this series, and it turns out there's only so far I can be carried along with nothing but easy read prose and kinda interesting ideas to hold my attention. I almost didn't even bother reading this book.

But in the end, well, the library ebook was right there, and I did more or less want to know how things would be wrapped up, so I essayed a quick read.

And yup, it's more of the same. Cardenia and Marce continue to be so bland as to be presenceless and thus extraordinarily boring to read about, Kiva and Nadashe continue to be mildly fun watching be their one-note selves, politics and science happen. I couldn't even bring myself to be annoyed about a major thing that happens in the last half of the book that would ordinarily be a thing I HATE in a book, because I just didn't care that much.

Oh well. This book is not aimed at an audience of me and that's fine. Probably I'm going to be more cautious with bothering to pick up Scalzi books going forward, because I am recognizing more and more that he does trend towards not being interested in the same kinds of things that I am interested in.

Back in the days after I'd started keeping a list of all the books I read each year but BEFORE I started posting reviews of them, I kept desultory personal notes (ranging from a single word to quite a few paragraphs) on some of the books. And I always vaguely forget I have, and forget where exactly to find them, and I'd like to just have them on my dw so they're FINDABLE again for me. And also some of you might find these interesting/amusing? (N.B. some of these contain what I would now classify as INCORRECT OPINIONS.)

SO HERE'S THREE YEARS' WORTH OF BOOKS IN ONE POST, OKAY GO.

( expand this cut to see nested cuts listing all the books )

I AM BACKKKK! Well actually I returned late sunday night but then I was exhausted and also I have work and also catching up on the real life things I wasn't doing while on vacation, so. I am still exhausted but I am at least nominally kind of here! AND I COME WITH LOTS OF BOOKS.

Look, my vacation was CANOE TRIPPING, which when you do it right (which obvs I do) leaves you lots of time to hang out in the beautiful wilderness with a book. So. I read NINE BOOKS while on vacation! Plus I had a couple I didn't post about from before the trip. Plus I read a book yesterday. So. Let's go!

( Wired Love: a Romance of Dots and Dashes, by Ella Cheever Thayer )

( Mable Riley: A Reliable Record of Humdrum, Peril & Romance, by Marthe Jocelyn )

( Monks-Hood, by Ellis Peters )

( Complete Fairy Tales of George MacDonald )

( The Confession of Brother Haluin, by Ellis Peters )

( The Android's Dream, by John Scalzi )

( The Wisdom of Father Brown, by GK Chesterton )

( Psmith, Journalist, by PG Wodehouse )

( A Matter of Oaths, by Helen S Wright )

( Murder Must Advertise, by Dorothy L Sayers )

( Strong Poison, by Dorothy L Sayers )

( Princess Academy, by Shannon Hale )

( Gaudy Night, by Dorothy L Sayers )

( Poor Yorick, by Ryan North, William Shakespeare, and YOU )

Auuuuugh OKAY HERE HAVE ANOTHER POST. IT IS ANOTHER BOOK POST.

although it could be a movie post, because since my last post I have watched Score: A Hockey Musical, and also Brave. But those will be POSTS FOR THE FUTURE, because I am still getting through my backlog of book posts!

Fuzzy Nation, by John Scalzi

I read this book without having ever read Little Fuzzy by Piper, but now I really want to, so I can compare the books to each other. I know that my reactions to Fuzzy Nation are influenced by the fact that I'm not familiar with Little Fuzzy.

ANYWAYS. ( Spoilers follow. )