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Just finished catching up on Curiosity Killed The Schoolgirl and found it enjoyably surreal. It looks and acts like it's a simple slice-of-life anime comedy but the stuff that happens to the two friends and the situations they get into are so bizarre it doesn't really get stale. Like, the...

Just finished off Exodus of Gnomes in time to start Jake's Magical Market for the book club. Overall it was decent but it's only the author's second book and it kind of shows in the worldbuilding. The story is built around Corey using his powers to convince the Gnomes to go on a grand journey...

Just finished off Mogworld by Yahtzee Croshaw, yes that Yahtzee. It's a rather clever twist on traditional fantasy, overall it was a fun read though it's a real slog through the first couple of hours before things get going. Yahtzee's going for Terry Pratchett style humor but isn't quite...

Just polished off the Tower of Somnus. This is an interesting case. It's nominally LitRPG, crossed with a distinctly Shadowrun-flavored cyberpunk dystopia. Aliens made contact with Earth some 40 years ago and promptly threw up their hands in horror at the atrocities of the megacorps and...

I am just finishing up the Hapless Dungeon Fairy box set. Decent for LitRPG but really suffers from the author's tendency to pad wordcount with stat blocks, especially when he decides to recite the entire stat block, exactly the same as the stat block he recited a few pages back except for one...

Castles : a History of Fortified Structures: Ancient, Medieval & Modern by Charles Stephenson Interesting read on different fortress types, but not as detailed as I hoped. I'm going through it primarily to see if I find something interesting to craft a diorama but it's not of as much utility as...