I am currently reading Green City Wars by Adrian Tchaikovsky. It is an interesting work, but I think the readability of it could have been improved.
Finished Twelve Months today, and I've got to say that is has been one of the most disappointing books of the year, and it's infinitely worse when you don't fully enjoy a book by an author that you usually rate highly.
I need to 'complete' books read 2026, otherwise it's going to be a massive pain to do.
I have tried to give the zonelets blog a different look, since everyone who uses it seems to keep the same styles. I would like it to match the main body of the site, but I've no clue on how to do that without wrecking the script that's in place, but at least it looks a bit different. Perhaps the biggest change would be to get a new background image for it, or just take out the background image entirely.
One problem that I've observed with music is that it is quite stuck in the past. (I'm in my 40s, so people should take heed when someone of my age, or older says this.) We love Guns n Roses, Metallica, Nickelback, Sonata Arctica (and there are many, many others that I could mention from the 2000s and earlier), but when you look at the line up of a music festival, it's always an old band or singer headlining it, and
Wow, you read a lot! This year is the first in a long time where I can count books per year instead of year per book. Nice website, very cozy.
crafty-hobbit-reads
6 days ago
Thanks. I have really only been keeping track since 2024, and I only started getting back into reading properly in 2021. For ages, I didn't read much because of concentration problems. About half of the books are audiobooks, though.
I'm quite tired today. I sometimes get fatigue. Fortunately, I have done what needs to be done, and I've got a couple of Ursula Le Guin books from the library - The Dispossessed and The Lathe of Heaven. I will move on to these after finishing Twelve Months. I'm about three quarters of the way through it and it is still missing something. I thought that Peace Talks and Battleground should have been one book, but this?
crafty-hobbit-reads
1 week ago
The Thomas and Justine storyline is really the only thing that is holding it together (and so far, there hasn't really been anything of Justine), and everything else in the book just seems to be there to pad it out. I'm pretty certain that if it was an author other than Jim Butcher, I would have dropped the book by now. Mirror Mirror had better be better than this. We know Jim can write, and that's what makes it more
Today, we got a new computer monitor and I was able to fix a laptop that has an issue with certain keyboard keys not working properly. The increase brightness button had stopped working and I accidently made the screen go dark, but with the new monitor I was able to fix it. We have a new keyboard so that solves the issue with the dodgy keys but after over a decade of using laptop keyboards, I find a desk top keyboard
crafty-hobbit-reads
1 week ago
to be quite clunky (and LOUD!) to use. On the plus side, though, the monitor is much larger than the laptop screen so it reduces eye strain so I'll probably use the monitor and keyboard quite regularly. I look forward to playing LOTRO using the new monitor because with my diabetic retinopathy issues, it was starting to become difficult to play the game.
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I mean, OLD! Not bands from 5 years ago, or even bands from 10 years ago, but ones from the 90s and early 2000s. They are great, and we love them, but we need new bands and artists, too, and none of this bland, AI generated junk.