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I loved the Farseer trilogy, but I didn't get very far in to Liveship traders. It's been a long time, so I don't recall exactly what it was, but I didn't like it at all. I actually gave my copies to someone who seemed really in to the books. I hope she gave them a good home.

I just started reading One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. It's tells the story of a day in the life of a prisoner in a soviet prison camp, set in the early 1950's. I picked it up because the premise seemed interesting and also reminded me of Dostoevsky's The House of the Dead. Both authors had first hand experience of Russian prison camps. Seems like an interesting read and I'm surprised I've never heard of the author before, even though he won a Nobel prize for literature.

Here's a tip I learned so very long ago: Never shop hungry.

That being said, I'm really careful about what I buy anyway and plan my purchases so that I end up using everything. Fresh foods can still spoil because I didn't spot a moldy spot, but that's pretty rare. Dried foods are great.

Honestly I have little good advice to give aside from awareness and planning, since I am by nature perfectionist about my food and budgeting and can't relate to the meme.

postmarketOS, though they are in the process of migrating to systemd. Not that I personally mind terribly much, even if it feels like a bit of an odd choice. So maybe I should say Alpine.

This is quite amazing to me since it seems to be the actual case. The people who were saying we shouldn't listen to him, but watch what he does, were openly advocating for a man whose word they know means nothing. It's perplexing. Politicians are an untrustworthy lot one and all, but god damn, the open and naked willingness to vote for someone whose position they can't know, whose promises carry absolutely no weight, that's truly stupendous.

They are at once admitting Trump says horrible shit, but also that he's an inveterate liar and that makes it better somehow. Both him being honest and dishonest should be equally disturbing. That's some next level cognitive dissonance.

Glad I'm not the only one. I read the first part and stopped, because I was getting nothing out of it. I have no intention of finishing that book.

Yeah, it's definitely not a light read. Really good though.

Still working on Lord of Chaos, but I popped in to my local library to pick up V for Vendetta by Alan Moore for rereading because of... You know... Reasons. It felt timely.

Learning to appreciate small everyday things is a great way to live.

I am reading the sixth book in The Wheel of Time series, Lord of Chaos. I've been working through the series for the last six months or so, with some other books in between.

I'm reading it now since it's finally finished and I can get all the books. I first read some of the books, first three or so, in the late 90's. At the time I was heavily in to fantasy and it was a well known series. I liked it back then, but for whatever reason dropped it. I guess I feel I need to finish something I started a long time ago.

Now, the Lord of the Rings has been my favorite book for a long time, and I see a lot of people comparing WoT to LotR, but I think it's not a very valid comparison. Similarities between the books are fairly superficial fantasy tropes. Jordan just isn't the writer Tolkien was, though he's not without his merits. It's clear he's heavily invested in the story and world he's creating, and it feels infectious. I like reading the books. However, where Jordan falters most I think is his characters, who tend to be insufferable all of them, with few exceptions. They constantly lie to, mislead and insult each other and it's hard to figure why they think they are friends. His gender dynamics are exasperating, with characters constantly acting like the other gender is completely inscrutable in all ways. It gets real old real fast. He's also overly verbose, this series could have been a lot shorter. But still, I read on and even enjoy myself. I might finish this series yet.

George Orwell wrote about his experiences with those in Down and Out in Paris and London. It's a decent book and an interesting look at poverty of the day.