Currently reading: Foundation and Empire by Isaac Asimov 📚

Rosy-fingered dawn at Dundas West station. Bound for Vancouver today.

Currently reading: The Eternal Champion by Michael Moorcock 📚

My introduction to Moorcock was stumbling over the Corum books; there’s something about his writing I find a little chimerical and hard to pin down, and I think that’s what I find compelling about it. There’s a lot of pulpy touches, and it moves fast, until it touches down for a brief moment of existentialist introspection, or suggests connections to older, bigger myths and archetypes. But it never seems to take itself too seriously, while still giving the reader some credit. Guess I’ll see how this one goes!

Finished reading: The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin 📚

Le Guin offers such a great slow burn. There’s very little adrenaline rush in this, and sometimes it feels like the story is as slow as the glaciers that fill its wintry expanses, but it’s that methodical, relentless pacing that gives it the traction to bite down hard and sink its ideas deep into you.

Currently reading: The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin 📚

Finished reading: Moonbound by Robin Sloan 📚 Delightful, I’ll definitely be looking for more Sloan before long!

Last night was brew night! Single hop Cascade IPA from a malt extractct kit I was gifted last Christmas. First time trying the extract method, I can confirm there was a great deal less sediment to deal with, even beyond my brew-in-a-bag sessions.

Currently reading: Moonbound by Robin Sloan 📚

Currently reading: The Stone Sky by N. K. Jemisin 📚

It is time to begin anew