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This book rules

How did you confirm it?

I saw the link seems fake. How come I can’t click back to a Six Flags or Cedar Point homepage from it? Probably was built by Claude to scam people

Scammer probably

Fake

We have an envigo beagle that we rescued about 4 years ago and I think one of the things that people who rescue lab beagles need to accept is that there are going to be accidents in the house. I don’t know what happened here but I think some fosters/new rescues are very insistent on ensuring that the dogs get potty trained and get to spend time outdoors, which they did not get to do in confinement

Bluntly you have to accept accidents. My lab beagle was terrified of the grass for two years. She barely wanted to go outside for over a year. She was afraid of flies and loud noises. So we had to accept that going outside was not going to be a big priority and we were patient with her.

Now she loves going outside, goes to the bathroom there, and basks in the sun. Do not rush this process because you are obsessed with having a potty trained dog

Sordaneon is one of my picks too. Currently on book 3 of this series, all amazing, but the central relationship at the center of the first book between two enemies becoming allies is simply amazing, haven’t read much like it. It definitely throws you into the deep end without much exposition, but an engrossing book that sticks with you.

The other one for me this year is There is no anti-memetic division.

Another historical but more modern event that reminded me of it is Mao’s Long March:

The Long March (October 1934–October 1935) was a massive military retreat by the Chinese Red Army to escape Nationalist (KMT) forces, covering roughly 6,000–10,000 kilometers over 368 days. Led by Mao Zedong, who solidified his leadership during this trek, the army moved from Jiangxi to a new base in Yan'an, Shaanxi, marking a turning point in the rise of the Chinese Communist Party.

This book has one of the best monarch characters I’ve ever read in Marc Frederick

Thanks it’s a cool image

I’m curious where the third pic is from?

This, this, this. We rescue beagles, some of them older, and have lost a good number over the years, 4 in the last 15 months, for example. You love them all but it’s unique with each. When you are ready open your heart to another and you won’t regret it.

By this definition an excellent standalone is The Traitor Baru Cormorant.

I found the choice to do a time jump and retelling within an already fictional memoir to be very strange. Wonder why he didn’t just forgo the time jump after DG and go thru those events in “real time”

I know it’s unrelated and it’s not a recommendations thread but if you want to read an author that absolutely nails the ending every time, check out Robert Jackson Bennett.

Agree the beginning was very interesting despite how mundane it was. Honestly this book went downhill when almost of his time in the fantasy world was spent as a prisoner in a gladiator plot. Yawn.

The entire avalanche record is amazing as is the rest of his solo stuff

Not enough people know about them, but Matthew Good Band

Totally agree on Navola. An absolute banger of a book. There is a scene that happens late that I kept expecting to go a different way but it just kept going and kept my jaw on the floor. It’s a slow burn but the world building is amazing with really excellent character work and great prose. Can’t wait for the sequel to this

The full band version from the Neverender recordings is amazing as well

Beautiful Midnight - Matthew Good Band

Mine is that the Afterman albums are incredibly overrated. Feel like there’s one excellent album between the two of them

Yep!

Radicals, The Heights, Thorn Bird, Parts are all classics. MW is definitely slow and sad and that vibe permeates the whole thing but I still really like it.

Yes this, but also maybe don’t go fight illegal wars for false reasons and have our service members do horrible things in others peoples countries and then expect them to come home normal. Chickens come home to roost.