#pathstepotd

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I put one of my bookshelves on LibraryThing this evening. It was fun & satisfying but it had a really weird selection of books. If you were to look at what I catalogued and try to guess who I was you would think I was a very dedicated and religious pagan who played a lot of retro ttrpgs and had a particular interest in addiction recovery, vintage YA fiction and Alaska. But then there is an odd one here and there like crunchy philosophy, knot tying, 80s/90s alt rock.

A lot of the books are inherited from my parents, a few are from way back in high school, and I wouldn’t keep them if I wasn’t at all interested, but it’s all kindof random and disproportionate. I’m excited to put more in my account to I guess round it out a bit more.

When it comes to my step of the day I will pick a book from my shelf:

I haven’t read this lately, but it belonged to my mother and it sounds pretty adorable.

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The gun fever is bad…

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Check out my WIP.

It’s this thing.

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This is the book I’ve been reading

I’m at page 313 and this is how far through it I am. There are 1 million characters and so many little subplots and in and outs. I’m honestly thinking about starting to take notes about who’s doing what and what bombshells are being dropped like every three pages. This book is like a collage of drama and intrigue. In some ways, you kind of have to focus on the broad strokes, because if you try to keep track of the details, you might just get lost.

But overall, it’s really fun and thinking about it in terms of how I could use it to shamelessly generate intrigue for my world building makes it even more fun.  Additionally the strange translated formality that the author uses for the Chinese language leads to some extremely unusual cursing. I also kind of want to keep track of this so that I can break it out if a situation calls for it

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I want to do like a thought or cultural tidbit of the day. Hopefully this will be stuff you might like if you like me.

Here you go: I think this is cool