Melbourne

Books
Since last I posted one of these, of course I read Ann Leckie's Radiant Star. I loved it. Leckie's doing something different with narrative voice this time around, so mark that off your bingo card, and if you enjoy Victorian novels then this narrator might be particularly enjoyable for you. It goes very hard.

Having read that (and then a friend's annotations, which I then sent on with the ARC to the next person in the chain) I decided I wanted to take some space to recover with T Kingfisher's fourth paladin book, Paladin's Faith. Which, as it turns out, is also going much harder than I expected.

I am also making my way slowly through Nick Walker's Neuroqueer Heresies, and finding it unsatisfying. I'd be less critical of it as polemic (although still annoyed at the prescriptivism and the exhorting readers to police other people's language too if they don't use "neurodivergent" and "neurodiversity" according to Dr Walker's preferred definitions), but when she's stating outright in the book that she intends to use it as a textbook to teach in university, I want more rigour and citations.

Fandom
Enjoying a resurgence of Radch discussion on Discord.

More ephemeral fic in the Nine Worlds fandom. May was good for that.

Crafts
Finished the table.

Tech
Wayland and gnashing of teeth.
That said, I learned how to use xargs in Bash, which made Android backups easier for me.

Garden
Harvested what is, amazingly, not the last of the tomatoes. Semi-dried all the ripe tomatoes I had in the oven, and froze the results. Did a little weeding, and sowed pak choy and calendula seeds.

Cats
They don't like the cold weather, but Mighty Hunting continues.