 this morning. I’ve been reading it in stops and starts, I found many parts too tell-not-show for my tastes. It’s an interesting sci-fi plot with a graduate-level physics class thrown in the middle. Or it’s not sci-fi at all and it’s an allegory for Communist China’s interactions with the West.

Either way it’s book number one of a three book series and I don’t think I’ll continue. I tend to stay away from books that are part of a series that can’t stand on their own. I’m two books into 

 but I’m not interested enough to keep going. Similarly I finished 

 recently, a sequel itself that sets the story up for a trilogy and — I dunno, I’m not that interested in hearing more, especially if it’s tens or hundreds of hours more.

On sort of the other side of this, we watched 

 last night. It’s as good as everyone said it was and I don’t think anyone is going to pitch an incredibly ironically titled 

 about Ruby in college. In this era of “more of everything” it’s nice to enjoy something that ends.

In this era of “more of everything” it’s nice to enjoy something that ends.

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