They Never Tell You Some Things, Briar Said Bitterly. They Tell You Mages Have Wonderful Power And They

““They never tell you some things,” Briar said bitterly. “They tell you mages have wonderful power and they learn all kinds of secrets. Nobody ever mentions that some secrets you don’t ever want to learn.” “All you can do is learn good to balance the bad,” Rosethorn told him. “Learn and do all the good within your reach. Then, if you wake in a sweat, you have something to set against the dream.””

— Tamora Pierce, “Street Magic”

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I finished A House With Good Bones by T Kingfisher yesterday. I loved it! More to come, but suffice to say that if you like insects & arthropods and have some enjoyment of gothic-y horror-ness, you might like this book.

state of the bookshelf 3/17/23

March is still cancelled, so I'm still ignoring my reading list

just finished re-reading Ancillary Justice (Ann Leckie)

just finished re-reading A Hat Full of Sky (Pratchett)

finished re-reading Network Effect, Fugitive Telemetry, All Systems Red, and Artificial Condition (Wells)

finished Over the Woodward Wall (McGuire) - New book yay

Still reading Hamilton (Chernow)

Just started re-reading Wintersmith (Pratchett)

Just started re-reading Ancillary Sword (Leckie)

I feel incredibly slow on the uptake but I was re-reading some Pratchett today—Going Postal—and Vetinari mentions “the psychology of the individual” and it finally hit me that Vetinari is Jeeves.

Jeeves, with Ankh-Morpork to take care of instead of Wooster.

Preternaturally calm, fully aware that they are serving a very dim master that must be led without it realizing that it is being led, able to enter a room far more silently than you’d expect…has apparently had an Understanding with a surprising number of ladies off-screen…

I would almost have thought coincidence until I hit the bit about considering the psychology of the individual. Now I take my hat off to both.

IN A DISTANT and second-hand set of dimensions, in an astral plane that was never meant to fly, the curling star-mists waver and part . . .

See . . .

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