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I am soon (read: in a few days) going to be going on a 12 hour flight. If you have any

• podcasts you can recommend binging (I like history and science for non-fiction, and I like horror, sci fi, fantasy and actual play for fiction)
• minecraft videos (both in the form of "you should watch so and so's last life POV" or "here is the Ideal List of secret life videos to watch" or "I am ordering you to have Las Nevadas Takes, and here are the vods you need to watch for that")
• documentaries what are on Netflix or YouTube

I am all ears

Book post 02/12/23

Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree

A fantasy novel that is like drinking a mocha in a cozy cafe. There's more progression than conflict. I don't want to say it's low stakes, so much as stakes are dealt with quickly and with things ending up even better for the characters. Which in my opinion came across as weird at points? But like. If you want an aggressively cozy "orc makes a Cafe in a fantasy world" it fits the bill well.

Salt by Mark Kurlansky

History of salt. DNF. It didn't come across as ~credible as I like. (Some potential linguistic clunkers in the chapter on China, and treating Africa as one giant lump, that sort of thing.)