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all of these arrangements are contingent on putler agreeing to a ceasefire.

Which is to say, it's all fiction for now.

Apparently the government/police forces in the Kurdish city of Abdanan (75% Kurdish, 20% Luri, total population 23k as of 2016 census) laid down their weapons and joined the protesters.

Is this a revolution yet?

worry, on 06 January 2026 - 02:41 PM, said:

Kuang generally doesn't make things easy for the reader, or her characters.

"Babel" was a tough read as well, despite a pretty picaresque intro.

2 chapters into Archimedes Engine, and Hamilton is tossing out A LOT of weird concepts.

And in the back of my mind I'm constantly imagining how they can be gamified.
I had a similar experience when I read Metro 2033 (which is basically written like an RPG campaign diary, to be fair). But ionno how much it's gonna color my perception of the book.

Probably a good thing I still haven't played Mass Effect, or the comparisons would get even more rabid.

2026 update. One of the things I want to do this year is work on general sleep patterns. The plan is to read a few chapters before sleep each night. This should be helpful for general reading.

I've been out of sync with reading in the past 2 years, so the broad plan is to read things I have lying around that haven't been read yet.


-Finish Ken Liu's Dandellion Dynasty (meaning, read Speaking Bones
-Re-Read "Ember Blade", and then read "Shadow Casket
-Read "Archimedes Engine, and then if liked, read the second Exodus book once it comes out
-Finally get back into the Expanse books and finish the series
-Since I gave upon the vanity "read books in French" project, read the Dark Tower books.
-Read "Girl and the Stars" by Mark Lawrence
-read "Master of Revels"
-Read "Polostan" by Neal Stephenson
-Finish "Skullsworn" and read "empire's Ruin" by Brian Staveley
-Read the first Rise of the Jain" book by Neal Asher
-Read "Age of Ash" by Daniel Abraham
-Read Grand Conspiracy by Janny Wurts
-Check out "Sons of Darkness"
-read "Priory of the Orange tree"
-see where I'm at with GGKay, I think I might own the not-Ragusa book, but I definitely didn't read it.
-Do a Solar Cycle read (since the first and only time I read New Sun, I missed the Coda)
-for beach reading, re-read the Dresden books

Keep an eye out for paperback releases of
-Witness Bk 2
-Stormwind Archive bk 5

(non-fiction list TBD)- most of these books are back at my place and I'm writing this list at my parent's place



E-reads (TBD) - I don't think I have my Amazon reader currently installed on the new phone yet