I think I'll miss this book. ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ The Beauty of the House is immeasurable; its Kindness infinite. Piranesi by Susanna Clarke To experience this book for the first time is something I'll forever be chasing.

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Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrel doesn't land for some people, but it is absolutely one of my favorite comfort reads. It suceeds at building a whole mythology from folklore in a way that I don't think any-one else has managed since Tolkien.

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I know all the arguments for writing what you want to write and worrying about finding an audience later. This isn't that. The point is, we all know there are ideas that people love, and there are ideas that are commercial, and only if you're very lucky are they the same thing.

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I’m stepping away for bsky for a bit. My timeline is full of incoherent and deeply nasty rage. There’s no…looking to understand, just mob mentality. I am coming to think we are a society in search of something to blame, a scapegoat, and SM is only amplifying our willingness to be inhuman.

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"He ought to stay here, and do the best he could. But... history was full of the bones of good men who'd followed bad orders in the hope that they could soften the blow. Oh, yes, there were worse things they could do, but most of them began right where they started following bad orders."

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