damn you Apple and your Alternative Hits of 1989 playlist #oldpeoplemusic

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Another week, another 157107 #covid19 cases #uspol ... I've started hearing the "we don't believe the numbers" responses first-hand #SMH

Grandpa: Are you kidding? Fencing, fighting, torture, revenge, giants, monsters, chases, escapes, true love, miracles...

The Grandson: Doesn't sound too bad. I'll try to stay awake.

(from The Princess Bride of course, but applicable)

I stayed awake! 😂

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Sebastian de Castell starts off another tale of magic and swordplay with The Traitor's Blade. Falcio, Kest, and Brasti make a nice addition to the tradition started by Dumas' Athos, Aramis, and Porthos. 😀

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She's 13, a brand new queen, and everyone is telling Kellen to kill her. But Kellen likes to make up his own mind, yeah?

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Yeah, so that horrible curse Kellen lives with, that got him kicked out of his own family and society, and made the constant target of bounty-hunting magi? It's even more complicated than he thought.

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Sebastian de Castell keeps the interesting stories going of Kellen, the Jan'tep outcast and trickster, and the bizarre family that's been forming around him.

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Book #3 of the Swords and Fire series is typically fun and satisfying.

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Jennifer Estep's swords and magic Crown of Shards series is awfully fun.

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I really enjoyed this whole series. Book 2 finds Kellen - magical outcast from his Jan'tep family - beginning to accept his new status as outlaw and trickster, while learning that there is a whole world outside the insular society he grew up in.

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Melissa Caruso's story of magic and politics in a world of medieval city-states - started in The Tethered Mage - continues in The Defiant Heir.

Interesting characters and the story goes in some non-standard directions, so that's kinda cool.

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Welcome to Monday. I'm too... everything to have opinions today 😨

The conclusion to S. K. Dunstall's excellent Linesman series.

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Your whole society is based on magic, your dad is the head of the family and a powerful magi, your sister is a magical prodigy, and your magic just sputtered and died on the day of your magical trials.

Yeah, sucks to be you.

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Criagslist: Still Got It

You know what's manly and cool? Doing whatever it takes to protect your family, friends, neighbors, and community regardless of what others think. Oh you thought I meant a gun? No, WEAR A MASK #covid19

I'm researching more interesting ways to display data about my posts here (the archive + bar chart here http://monkinetic.blog/archive was my first attempt) - thinking sparklines or something

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Seeing yellow, or racism in the camera: "Why does ‘yellow filter’ keep popping up in American movies?" https://matadornetwork.com/read/yellow-filter-american-movies/

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Good morning fellow humans ☕️ ☀️