Have started many fiction and non-fiction titles and finished none.
Well, that’s true right now, right now. But I did tear through Piper CJ’s “No Other Gods” series, the third of which was released recently and I finished it in a night or two and I have to wait another year probably for the next installment because she is writing other series at the same time.
I paused my Lord of the Rings re-read all while considering finishing that and starting over with Laurell K. Hamilton and or William Gibson. For example I re-read Neuromancer inside of the last year and kind of want to read my way back through that universe.
I’m no literary snob. I live and breathe genre fiction for the most part.
Have read some witchy titles recently because Kindle Unlimited. I read Salt & Broom most recently of four, and of them I enjoyed it the most because at no point did I really know how much the protagonist knew how to do. The danger was perhaps a little too easily held a bay a few times so while I enjoyed it I didn’t love it. The other three were more educational for me from both a historical perspective and a gender perspective: The House of the Witch and The Library Thief and The Familiar. As in the best fiction, stories and details that would not have occurred to me, but all of them showed old gender issues that we wrestle with to this day and caused me to sit with ramifications. There is something that needs to be smashed, and I am with you.
Also have read the Gibson Blue Ant series. Having a hard time with the chronological next book he wrote because it’s different still from his other work.
Finally also read Asimov’s Foundation. Working my way through the second in the series. The scale of time and space is impressive. I realize while writing this that I have made some assumptions about what I have read, so far, and while it may not be the best thing I have ever read, I am excited to see how it is ultimately realized.
My current leader sees me and appreciates me.
I wish conference room technology was less vendor-specific (or perhaps more cloud agnostic) and that folks would stop blaming the meeting room when it doesn’t intuitively and automatically configure itself the way a person imagines it should work for them.
It is strange how technical support has meant I now also have to be worried about video streaming, audio amplification, lighting, framing, editing—every bit as much as the videographers and audio engineers and production teams have needed to become more adept with their use of computers and software.
I have some latitude and control in my latest role. Looking forward to making a difference.
I have the Switch 2 and am excited now that there are more Switch 2-specific updates and releases. Going to stick to this console for the majority of my gaming, but there is a PS5 in the other room.
Animal Crossing New Horizons is where I spend a lot of time. I do currently have islands on two consoles, the Switch 2 and a Switch Lite, but am feeling like expanding back out to other games again. I have gotten two characters to Level 20 in Hogwart’s Legacy but it feels like hardly getting my feet wet. Probably will restart that.
We’ve been enjoying Ghibli studio movies as a family. If that is your jam, please check out the festival. Maybe it has been running for many years, but have certainly enjoyed going to these movies over the last year. I just watched the 4K re-release of Kiki’s Delivery Service at an Imax theater with kiddo. Would recommend.