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"Almost 150pp in this has been hit and miss for me. Some scenes and sequences are 5* hot, nearly as many leave me cold. Admittedly, those with new or less familiar characters are proving hard to get into, so maybe it's just that I favor known characters and arcs. Could just be a mood thing, too, real life is intruding more than usual. Doing some reading in an old Tor readalong to stay focused, seems to help." — Nov 26, 2022 07:21AM
"Almost 150pp in this has been hit and miss for me. Some scenes and sequences are 5* hot, nearly as many leave me cold. Admittedly, those with new or less familiar characters are proving hard to get into, so maybe it's just that I favor known characters and arcs. Could just be a mood thing, too, real life is intruding more than usual. Doing some reading in an old Tor readalong to stay focused, seems to help." — Nov 26, 2022 07:21AM
the center of the channel, the water still flowed freely, but fingers of ice stretched out from the bank, like they were trying to close around someone’s throat.
“When it rains, the moisture in the humid air blankets our town with the smell of damp coffee grounds wafting in from the Nescafé factory at the town’s eastern edge. I don’t like coffee but I like that smell. It’s comforting; it unites the town in a common sensory experience; it’s good industry, like the roaring rug mill that fills our ears, brings work and signals our town’s vitality. There is a place here—you can hear it, smell it—where people make lives, suffer pain, enjoy small pleasures, play baseball, die, make love, have kids, drink themselves drunk on spring nights and do their best to hold off the demons that seek to destroy us, our homes, our families, our town.”
― Born to Run
― Born to Run
“Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart.”
― Memory
― Memory
“Quite frankly, every single day that I do something creative, and show it to people, I'm nervous. Even this video, I'm like, 'You're too earnest, it's not funny enough, nobody likes you.' Um, well, I gotta do it, because unless I say something about the world I don't know if it's worth gettin' up in the morning.
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...Was that depressing, or inspirational?”
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A discussion group for the Foreworld Saga, an alternative history narrative that focuses on the OMVI--the lost martial masters of the West.
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The focus of this group is historical fiction set in Ancient and Medieval eras(with some post Medieval), in any geographical location. Preference is g ...more
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