Cav's Place

Writing this on the second day of this year’s first actual heat wave, but I’m sitting here with the window closed and blinds drawn, so it doesn’t matter much. Not that it’d have really bothered me either way, the reported highs being the same as yesterday, around 35°C, and there’s also a fair bit of […]

Since it was mentioned in Quiet, looked up this test, or some version of it at least, and took it as I read the book, saving the result because I thought there’d be more tests mentioned that I’ll end up taking by the time I’ll finish, so I meant to post all results at once. […]

Unusually for me, read it in Romanian, so things may have gotten lost in translation and I may have failed to make some connections or even pay enough attention at times. Still, sure seems well written and properly researched, though the notes that weren’t just references should have been footnotes, as I had to keep […]

Just like I wrote the previous personal post Thursday because I was going to be out Friday and Saturday, leaving little time to write and adding more things to write about, making it quite impossible to fit in one post, I’m now writing this Wednesday because I’ll be out tomorrow and possibly also Friday and […]

If I was saying that I wouldn’t call The Final Empire dark, The Hero of Ages definitely is, despite an ending that doesn’t quite fit. On the other hand, if The Well of Ascension at times seemed to me to read as I expect a good crime novel would, only on a much bigger scale, […]