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Small-Scale Question Sunday for November 10, 2024

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September saw the release of a fifth Bobiverse book an a seventeenth Expeditionary Force book. Both were good instalments.

Yahtzee Croshaw released a third Jacques McKeown audibook back in April that I missed, so listening to that now.

I decided to give John Scalzi a shot. Starter Villain was enjoyable but fell apart in the last third. Recommended if you like cats. Constituent Service: A Third District Story didn't grab me, I didn't get far. I'm a few chapters into Old Man's War but not feeling too excited about it yet.

The Freedom's Fire box set had some very good parts, but I think I would have preferred and abridged edition.

Starship's Mage, Book 14 Chimera's Star has them finally encountering the aliens they have been teasing since book 4. The series is fun but has a major problem where key people aren't as smart as they should be. The Mage King somehow doesn't have any bright military advisors and problems happened that you'd expect a jr officer to foresee.

Children of Time is broadly praised. I gave it a try but I can't sympathise with intelligent spiders.

I've been watching Yahtzee's video reviews for a decade and a half, he's put me on to so many great games, but I've never read any of his fiction. Is it any good?

I really liked the Jacques McKeown audiobooks (Will Save the Galaxy for Food, Will Destroy the Galaxy for Cash, Will Leave the Galaxy for Good). He reads them himself so you get his presentation skills.

I am particularly fond of spaceships, so it got points for that. It's a light and funny listen that's easy to follow. So it's great if you're doing chores or going for a walk where there may be some distractions.

I played it on a drive with my father and he asked me to turn it off because he liked it but it was too distracting. Usually he's fine with audiobooks on drives.

I had trouble getting into "Differently Morphous". I'm less familiar with some of the Lovecraftian & Harry Potterish material that the story involves. Plus there are POV jumps that make it harder to follow in while playing the background.

I'm planning to give it another try.

His books are not anything dense or deep, but I find them enjoyable.