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   rixx (rixx@chaos.social)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Nov-2023 19:06:19 JST rixx

   Instead of #NaNoWriMo, I'll write book reviews in November. I'm behind by 104 book reviews at the moment, and ideally, I'd get this down to 0 by the end of the month – certainly by the end of the year! Anything I haven't reviewed by then (except books read in December, I suppose), will receive review amnesty.

   Will update this thread with the books I've reviewed each day.

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     rixx (rixx@chaos.social)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Nov-2023 19:06:11 JST rixx

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     No reviews yesterday either because I finished a book by Iain Banks that was *so* fucking gross and icky that I needed to read a second book just to apply bleach to my brain. Wtf.

     So: 0 down, 101 to go, sigh

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     rixx (rixx@chaos.social)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Nov-2023 19:06:13 JST rixx

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     No reviews yesterday because I got a third of the way through writing up the plot of the (very plot-heavy, involved) book, the third in a trilogy, and then my browser died and the text was gone and I was angery.

     No reviews today because I spent the day on the train and it robbed me of brain and I'm still angry about the browser thing.

     But I finished a book (CS Lewis kinda-autobiography, so it's now): 0 down, 99 to go

     GreenSkyOverMe (Monika) repeated this.
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     rixx (rixx@chaos.social)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Nov-2023 19:06:14 JST rixx

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     Yesterday's reviews:

     - Tomorrow, the Killing (Low Town part 2), very readable https://books.rixx.de/daniel-polansky/tomorrow-the-killing/
     - Yendi (Vlad Taltos part 2), just *so* good https://books.rixx.de/steven-brust/yendi/

     2 down, 98 to go

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     rixx (rixx@chaos.social)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Nov-2023 19:06:16 JST rixx

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     Skipped yesterday on account of illness, but hey, I read a book instead, so that the count won't go down. Today's review is for Yendi (#2 in the Vlad Taltos series), which is a wonderful book: https://books.rixx.de/steven-brust/yendi/

     1 down, 102 to go

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     rixx (rixx@chaos.social)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Nov-2023 19:06:18 JST rixx

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     To start:

     - Rock Falls, Everybody Dies, an Isekai parody on RoyalRoad: https://books.rixx.de/zechamp/rock-falls-everybody-dies/
     - The Blade Itself: https://books.rixx.de/joe-abercrombie/the-blade-itself/

     2 down, 102 to go.