I think having Monday as a WFH day was the right choice.

Read: Spindle (WR Gingell): Sleeping Beauty as high-magic fantasy instead of fairy tale. Strong Howl’s Moving Castle and Chrestomanci vibes, which is appropriate since the book is dedicated to Diana Wynne Jones. A lot is not explained, but I liked seeing Poly get through it anyway.

Read: Girl of Flesh and Metal (Alicia Ellis): An anti-tech corporate princess gets cyberware and everything is terrible. Good verisimilitude: maybe when it’s released the tech will have a slick interface, but until then it’s underpaid geeks opening up a command line to manually edit conf files.

Read: Boneland (Jeffrey Thomas): Alternate early-C20 history in which astral-projecting aliens give humans advanced bug-based technology to bribe them into being even more violently depraved than they would naturally. Grotesque and horrible.

Words: Check.