I really like it so far! Very clever idea for the story line. I appreciate that we are made aware of violence that advances the plot without being given a graphic description of every injury.

Thanks for the rec! I’ll keep you posted!

That tracks. As someone who takes many steps every day to stave off crushing depression, I try to keep to more fanciful/hopeful fare for my leisure reading. Thanks for your input!

Thank you!! I just ordered Fuzzy Nation and We Are Legion (We Are Bob).

So much so that it turned me from not knowing him at all to getting what ever he writes without question or even reading the synopsis

I felt this way about Starter Villain! I’m curious how you felt about that one, given how different it is from Old Man’s War.

Only if they are part of a Trap-Neuter-Release (TNR) program for ferals. If you just take your pet in for the procedure they don’t do that. They might give them a small tattoo on their belly if it’s a girl, so if they are lost track of and have new humans they are sure no one will open them up to try and do it again.

Impressive snoot to head ratio.

Sources and Toxicity of Mercury in the San Francisco Bay Area, Spanning California and Beyond:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7519205/

I would say they are the most popular livestock guardian dog where I live, just from roadside observation, but I don’t know how long this has been the case. Lamas seem to be in second place.

It’s X box’s computer now…

Why do I have to tell my computer several time per week that I do not wish to let the X box app make changes to my computer?? I’ve never had anything to do with an X box. Oh, now you’re going to make my computer unusably slow unless I update and… what’s that… ? I can’t fucking update unless I ALLOW X BOX APP TO MAKE CHANGES TO MY COMPUTER??? Fuck you windows 11.

She’s all wrinkly and in a granny sweater, but she’s a baybee… ahhhhhhh! It’s too cute. Even her wrists are wrinkly…

Hai Una! 💖

I can squish? I want to squish…

You seem fun.

I put the third one down as well, it just got too far into horror. I didn’t really have a problem with any of the dialogue or character development and really liked the first two. I do tend to be very uncritical of novels in that respect though. I was just not at a time in my life where I wanted to read horror in my leisure time. I went from that to Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series and was ever so delighted.

Sheriff’s deputies even stood on top of it during the rescue efforts, trying to bust open a window.

I think it’s ok to let people know that the little window breaker doohickey they have stashed in their console for emergencies might not do shit if they have laminated windows (many newer cars).

There are lots of reasons this can be an issue outside of Tesla making shitty doors- a child or dog trapped in a hot car, an unresponsive/unconscious person, doors jammed during a crash and occupants are injured or unconscious.

If anything is being distracted from here, I think it’s probably that the woman may have been drunk. She was celebrating with old friends, it was after a late dinner. She was on a private road on an estate where it wouldn’t have been a crime to drink and drive. It’s easy to confuse forward and reverse in a Tesla, apparently, but she launched herself over an embankment and far enough into the middle of a pond that rescue workers didn’t have a long enough cable to reach the car. Most people don’t just floor it from the get go.

Whose a lil baby pupper doggy… youz a lil baby pupper doggy 😍 😍 😍

Thank you! Yes, but with so much to choose from it can be hard to get through the weeds. I will check that out.

I’ll check them out, thanks!

I tried reading the Cage of Souls series after absolutely loving the Children of Time series, but I couldn’t really get into it. Do you recommend any of his other works?