#(important: i need to check out the books i've seen my trusted friends speak highly of)

[neodarkdark]

I'm still sloooowly starting to get my reading books muscles back. I read 20 pages of one of the library books I took out and then went back to reading ranger's apprentice. I think part of the reason book 11 is working for me and a good place to start is because it's a bunch of short stories. I feel lame saying that but it is what it is. At least now instead of reading just a few pages in a sitting before having to put the book down I'm reading a few chapters or more.

I always love these. Ik it's junior fiction but idc. The writing flows well, it describes things nicely in ways that make sense and don't feel oddly inserted or interrupt the surrounding text. When things happen it's set out in a way that I can follow very well, what happens where, and stuff is described and laid out clearly (which is great for me because my imagination space is shit and not very good at filling in too much blank), but it's never overdone unnecessarily to become tedious or lose flavour. The tone often has this delightful dry twist. I just like the writing. I'm pretty sure it bleeds into how I write, too. But I forget about it if it's been a while since I last reread.

Besides that there are other broad stuff from it that I just enjoy. The general type of character / job description that Rangers tend to fall into or just gestures to all of Halt specifically.