Haunted Tape Dispenser
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As I've said many times before WFH was a boon to productive employees and a disaster for the type of middle manager who rises in the organization by dropping in, inserting themselves into projects and taking credit for others' work bsky.app/profile/just...
The office is way more distracting and less efficient. People love to come up and just chat about nothing on a whim all day
May 7, 2025 at 7:10 PM
As I've said many times before WFH was a boon to productive employees and a disaster for the type of middle manager who rises in the organization by dropping in, inserting themselves into projects and taking credit for others' work bsky.app/profile/just...
All that said, if you make it through Memories of Ice and it’s still not doing it for you, it probably won’t be. (That assumes you have the time or desire to wade three books into it!)
April 15, 2025 at 11:48 PM
All that said, if you make it through Memories of Ice and it’s still not doing it for you, it probably won’t be. (That assumes you have the time or desire to wade three books into it!)
… explodes those expectations. It’s multiple systems of magic, countless characters, etc. all set in a scale of epochs involving myriad lands and races. (I guess it’s his anthro-archaeology background?) It also has some really inspired takes on classic fantasy tropes (race and creatures).
April 15, 2025 at 11:48 PM
… explodes those expectations. It’s multiple systems of magic, countless characters, etc. all set in a scale of epochs involving myriad lands and races. (I guess it’s his anthro-archaeology background?) It also has some really inspired takes on classic fantasy tropes (race and creatures).
I found GotM very disorienting at first, but it wasn’t due to bad writing but just sheer scope. I’ve read so much fantasy I was used to getting my bearings pretty quickly—ah, this is the flavor, this is the system of magic, these are the main characters of note, etc.—but Erikson …
April 15, 2025 at 11:48 PM
I found GotM very disorienting at first, but it wasn’t due to bad writing but just sheer scope. I’ve read so much fantasy I was used to getting my bearings pretty quickly—ah, this is the flavor, this is the system of magic, these are the main characters of note, etc.—but Erikson …
There are two wolves inside you, one clone with 20 dire-wolf edits and …
April 7, 2025 at 7:50 PM
There are two wolves inside you, one clone with 20 dire-wolf edits and …
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February 8, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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Oh man. I still remember when I picked up Desert of Souls to review for BookPage years ago. Titles could be hit and miss and I had never heard of the author. I stopped just a few pages in and thought, “oh boy” b/c the prose was soooo immediately engaging. I knew I was in for a treat.
January 16, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Oh man. I still remember when I picked up Desert of Souls to review for BookPage years ago. Titles could be hit and miss and I had never heard of the author. I stopped just a few pages in and thought, “oh boy” b/c the prose was soooo immediately engaging. I knew I was in for a treat.