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Recently read Irreversible Damage and The Secret Barrister (heh, that sounds like some kind of HP AU...). Both good (found Abigail Shrier's style very funny, so that was nice and unexpected; TSB is a bit wordier and takes time to get going but the raw material is so interesting you end up drawn in anyway; turns out magistrates in the UK have basically no training, frequently get the law wrong and almost anyone can volunteer for the position; if they misinterpret the law then you have to abide by the bullshit until you can appeal, so just WAT. I meant to write a long forum post on it sometime...) I want to read some fiction next, anyway; seeing a lot of the same topics at the moment and I need some variety...

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Finished up The Bell at Sealey Head by Patricia McKillip. Can someone explain the appeal of this author? She's so well regarded, but anytime I read one of her books, I walk away thinking ... "well that was okay". She's competent, but her characters never come alive to me. Someone enlighten me!

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Hmmm, TBH I didn't care for that one either. The Changeling Sea and The Forgotten Beasts of Eld are the only McKillip's I've LOVED, although I've heard that the Riddle Master trilogy is pretty popular as well.

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I'm still working my way through Worm by Wildbow, the insanely long webnovel about superheroes/villains. I've enjoyed it a lot, but I'm at the point where I'm kind of bored with the main group of characters and want more of whatever weird cosmic shit is going on. Also it's increasingly annoying to me how all the teenagers are acting like grown men with military backgrounds, LOL.

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Continuing my thread on reading this here, since it was living under the recommendations thread and that was confusing. Pls don't spoil me if you've read further! :)

Reached the bit where Strike reads Quine's book, where two guys discuss poetry and one squishes his own terribly symbolic balls a lot. Had fun explaining to a friend that this was satirical because nearly all male-written Literature is just like this.

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Lovecraft's At the Mountains of Madness. It was great! I'd held back on Lovecraft because everybody said his writing was ~dense, but whatevs, I thought it was pretty easy reading. I can't say it did much for me on a cosmic horror level, but luckily I love anything arctic/Antarctic.

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Oh, cool! I've been meaning to read him at some point but had been putting it off for the same reason, so may bump him up the list a bit...

I read a nonfiction book a while ago about a guy who went to the arctic to trace the route of some rubber ducks that had escaped from a shipping crate. The book was a bit all over the place; the writing was rather smug; but it did talk a lot about the realities of the arctic in the chapters where he was there, so you might enjoy that side of it. T'was this thing: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moby-Duck

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