Slight return

[dolorosa_12]

I'm aware I owe responses to a lot of people's comments, but realistically it's not going to happen until the weekend at this point.



However, I do have time to write a quick response to today's snowflake_challenge prompt:

In your own space, create something.

I've been enjoying the flood of creations streaming across my circle over the past day — lovely icons, fragments from fic WIPs, and in general such a burst of creativity that it makes me smile.

Work this week has hit me like a freight train, and I always find that's not particularly conducive to writing, particularly fiction, so I'm choosing to interpret this challenge slightly differently. I've spoken at various points throughout the challenge of my enjoyment of longform blogging and a wish to see more of it, so I thought I'd do my own part to make that happen.

The result is a review of Ada Palmer's book Perhaps the Stars, and the Terra Ignota series in general. As always, when it comes to reviews on my reviews blog, I'm happy for comments either here on Dreamwidth, or on the reviews blog itself.

Comments

[mific]

Ooh, interesting. I'm going to try the Terra Ignota series.

[lirazel]

I haven't read the series, but you've made me excited to! :D

[vriddy]

Oooh, exciting!! I have Perhaps the Stars borrowed from the library and on my bedside table right now, just need to dig in and immerse myself back into that world. I already bookmarked the post where you had your quick emotional reaction to finishing the book because I didn't want the spoilers but I want to see what you thought once I'm done too :D Nice job on writing a long review as well!

[chestnut_pod]

This has been on my list for a while, but I keep putting it off due to Certain Concerns, in particular around religion and land relations. Your review has not necessarily allayed those concerns, but it has made me feel secure that the series itself is not inflexible or didactic about it; rather, that it sounds like a great chance to challenge my own stances on those and other issues.

[hamsterwoman]

I greatly enjoyed your Terra Ignota review, and am going to need to remember to bookmark it to point people who might be interested to it, because my own write-ups of this series, while copious, are really not very useful to people who haven't read the books, between spoilers and general incomprehensibility.

[senmut]

Sorry life is so busy!