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Monthly Archive December, 2024

Planting Trees One Day Before Elections – II

To finally pick up from where I left off, after walking to the tents and taking the first of the day’s pictures, I signed the form that I had to sign there, despite having also signed two others on the bus, and picked up another reusable bottle and another one of those things that go […]

Quick Review: The Emerald Gate

I’ll say right away that The Emerald Gate is the best book in the series, so it’s something of a pity that it marks its end. There’s worldbuilding, there’s character development, there’s thrilling action, there are multiple viewpoints presenting events taking place simultaneously in different areas, even in different worlds, there are developments and explanations […]

Quick Review: The Dromost Gate

This time around, the author does put a synopsis in the beginning, which can help even though it’s rather roughly done. But the real and truly surprising difference is that the focus is now moved well away from the action, making way for the worldbuilding that was avoided in Shadow of the Knight, and also […]

Romania’s Constitutional Court May Have Poured Fuel on the Fire

This is a mess… Tomorrow we should have had the second round of the presidential election, but yesterday, after the voters living abroad had already started voting, our Constitutional Court decided to overturn its own earlier ruling, validating the results of the first round, and annul the election, turning the entire situation into a mess […]

Planting Trees One Day Before Elections – I

In the early hours of November 23, I ate in the kitchen, since I had licked enough of some cheese which I had moved into a jar to not want to put anything on the bread anymore, so I then just ate the bread and the salad, finishing at 2:50 AM. And then I got […]