• Finished reading: Ogres by Adrian Tchaikovsky 📚

    I should read more Adrian Tchaikovsky. I always enjoy myself.

  • Finished reading: Nosferatu by Peter Cawdron 📚

    The last holiday read to catch up on. A fair bit better than I expected it to be.

  • Finished reading: Sister, Maiden, Monster by Lucy A. Snyder 📚

    This was a wild ride. I loved it.

  • Finished reading: We Need to Do Something by Max Booth Iii 📚

  • Finished reading: Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice 📚

  • Finished reading: Winter’s Gifts by Ben Aaronovitch 📚

    I always love it when there’s another Peter Grant book out. This novella makes me want more from the American side.

  • Finished reading: Death’s End by Cixin Liu 📚

    Catching up on posting what I read on holiday…

  • Finished reading: The Dark Forest by Cixin Liu 📚

  • Finished reading: The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu 📚

    I don’t know why it took me so long to get to this. Worth reading.

  • I was getting my eyes checked and the optometrist gave me my first “…for your age.”

    Young fellow, I’m 42, not 92!

  • Finished reading: Season of Skulls by Charles Stross 📚

    The Laundry Files/New Management books remain great fun.

  • 🎵 Scary Pockets does With Or Without You. www.youtube.com/watch

    This is at least a thousand times better than anything on that self-indulgent nonsense of an album U2 released earlier this year.

  • Finished reading: The Shadow Cabinet by Juno Dawson 📚

    After the cliffhanger at the end of the first book I was nervous about how well I’d get into this one, but the new main POV character is fantastic. I can’t wait for volume three. The social commentary isn’t very subtle, but it hits hard.

  • Finished reading: The Battle Drum (The Final Strife, Book 2) by Saara El-Arifi 📚

    I love this world. Every character is fascinating and none of them are straightforward.

  • 🎵 It’s a good music day today. New albums from the Foo Fighters and The Aces. Then I saw this, too. www.youtube.com/watch

  • 🎵 Well here’s a thing that I never would have considered. music.apple.com/gb/album/…

  • I am chuffed to an irrational degree with the Solarized-themed keycap set that arrived yesterday.

    Close-up photo of some of the keys on a keyboard. The alphanumeric keys follow the Solarized Light colourscheme. The modifiers are Solarized Dark.

  • 🎵 The YouTube algorithm did good today and served me up some Joe Pass: www.youtube.com/watch

  • Yesterday I spent an evening with guitars in a friend’s attic for the first time since I was a teenager (when it was an “every Friday night” thing), and now all I want to do today is play guitar. But I have to work instead 😞

  • Finished reading: No One Will Come Back For Us by Premee Mohamed 📚

    A brilliant selection of short stories. The best are the ones that exist in a small shared universe of gods and sacrifice.

  • Finished reading: The Sharp Edge of Yesterday by K. M. Herkes 📚

    Flawed, sympathetic characters trying to fix a little bit of society. The Wild Cards-like powers setup is fun.

  • How do they rise up?

    GNU Terry Pratchett

  • 🎵 I’m only a light and occasional DAW user, and Ableton has been my choice for quite some time, but Logic Pro being available for the iPad tempts me to have another look in its direction.

  • Finished reading: The Vessel by Adam Nevill 📚

    A very lean but satisfying folk horror. Nevill is good at bleak and creepy.

  • Finished reading: For the First Time, Again by Sylvain Neuvel 📚

    Wrapping up the aliens-among-us alternate history trilogy with the best of the three.

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