rhyme of the ancient millennial

In late December 2024, Debestewife was at Barnes and Noble, asking me if I wanted anything. I haven't bought a book in around a decade, preferring to patronize libraries instead. If I was getting a book, I wanted it to be one I knew and loved and would want to represent on my shelf - which got me thinking about The Dandelion Dynasty , Ken Liu's masterpiece, and arguably my favorite read of the last half decade. She wasn't able to find a good set at that location, but that set me off Internetting around for something similar. I'd read a fair bit about Guy Gavriel Kay being a great fantasy writer, and with Under Heaven cropping up as a standalone book (and not a commitment to an epic and/or unfinished series), I quickly shelved any hesitance about the "white-guy-writing-Asian-world" thing - hey, at least someone is writing Asian-influenced worlds - and decided to take the plunge. Overview Set in a country that evokes dynastic China, Under Hea...

Have thought about doing this a while and of course it's something I've done before. Would be nice to record some thoughts on books, TV, etc for a change again. Have tended more to the brain mush side of things in recent years, and with newly ADD brain it's easy to forget all the details of stuff. So yeah let's do this for what little we can. Maybe just a paragraph or a few bullet points each.