Way to go! I’d be interested to see your full card if you’d be willing to share. Did you have any books that really stood out good or bad? Did you have a favorite or least favorite square? Any suggestions for the future?

I didn’t enjoy Lud-in-the-Mist, but I think that more has to do with my current level of focus. It was too slow. It was written well.

Butcher was right up my alley.

Wizard of Earthsea was the first real “Fantasy” book I read and we did it in 6th grade for class. It arguably is a big part of why I enjoyed fantasy so much.

John Le Carré is on my list, but I haven’t read him yet. What did you think?

Stranger Tides was a ton of fun, I thought it was nice to read a magic-fantasy book that wasn’t stereotypically western magic.

Here was my list:

1A: Older Than You Are - Lud-in-the-Mist by Hope Mirrlees 1B: Water, Water Everywhere - The Devil and the Dark Water by Stuart Turton 1C: What’s Yours is Mine - The Thief Who Pulled on Trouble’s Braids by Michael McClung 1D: Family Drama - We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson 1E: It Takes Two - Kill the Farm Boy by Delilah S. Dawson, Keven Hearne 2A: New Release - The Butcher of the Forest by Premee Mohamed 2B: Plays With Words - Ella Minnow Pea: A Progressively Lipogrammatic Epistolary Fable by Mark Dunn 2C: Independent Author - Swordheart by T. Kingfisher 2D: Bookception - The Tea Master and the Detective by Aliette de Bodard 2E: Disability Representation - Hawkeye Omnibus by Matt Fraction & David Aja 3A: Eazy, Breazy, Read-zie - Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman 3B: Stranger in a Strange Land - A Prayer for the Crown-Shy by Becky Chambers 3C: FREE SPACE: One Less - The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy 3D: There is Another… - The Last Graduate by Naomi Novik 3E: LGBTQIA+ Lead - Carmilla by J. Sheridan Le Fanu 4A: Now a Major Motion Picture - Big Fish by Daniel Wallace 4B: It’s About Time - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button by F. Scott Fitzgerald 4C: Award Winner - A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers 4D: Mashup - Manga Classics: Macbeth by Julien Choy, Crystal S. Chan, William Shakespeare 4E: Local to You - The Unlicensed Magician by Kelly Barnhill 5A: Debut Work - This Is How You Lose the Time War by Max Gladstone, Amal El-Mohtar - A Change in Perspective 5B: It’s a Holiday - The Thanksgiving Visitor by Truman Capote 5C: Institutional - They Called Us Enemy by Steven Scott, George Takei, Justin Eisinger 5D: Minority Author - The Night Masquerade by Nnedi Okorafor 5E: Among the Stars - Binti by Nnedi Okorafor

Wow, two N’s, and one Y, but it was not where I thought it would be.

Clayton Bigsby walked so Severus Snape could run.

If Rowling is too toxic, probably best to avoid the Eddings too. Feist’s Riftwar instead perhaps

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I remember when she was popular learning that that she was like 10 years younger than me, so 35-ish.

Geordi totally has a Leah Brahms Replika bot.

It’s an older meme sir, but it checks out.

100%. Prior to Election Day? Get a democratic butt in every race and challenge the people advocating for puppy sacrifices.

Unfortunately we are at a point where only one party can be fixed.

“We got’em this time,” he says knowingly.

Something, something Rawls’ Veil of Ignorance something.

Even though I appreciate this post, I don’t think I will comment.

I just found out The Impossible Quiz is still online

https://poki.com/en/g/the-impossible-quiz#fullscreen

I think it’s left pretty open to interpretation. Murderbot is strongly agender in the books, but the text doesn’t specify androgyny that I can recall. I do know the Martha Wells has been pretty involved in this and seems to really support the interpretation that Apple TV+ has developed.

Note: Poochie died on the way back to his home planet.

If your band has a brass section, jump immediately to horny.