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In a while she would follow. ]]></fact></factList></version></versionList></field><field type=\"57\" name=\"haikusummary\" displayName=\"Book haiku\"><versionList><version id=\"7380399\" archived=\"0\" lang=\"eng\"><date timestamp=\"1407678379\">Sun, 10 Aug 2014 09:46:19 -0400</date><person id=\"1557364\"><name>passion4reading</name><url>http://www.librarything.com/profile/passion4reading</url></person><factList><fact><![CDATA[ Hild, the light of the\nWorld: king's seer, butcher-bird,\nPawn and lonely girl.\n(passion4reading) ]]></fact></factList></version></versionList></field><field type=\"36\" name=\"mediareviews\" displayName=\"Media reviews\"><versionList><version id=\"7211281\" archived=\"0\" lang=\"eng\"><date timestamp=\"1401944662\">Thu, 05 Jun 2014 01:04:22 -0400</date><person 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"notes": "Historical fiction about the early life of a seventh-century saint. Wonderfully immersive.",
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"notes": "Weird Wild West done very very well.",
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"notes": "A joy as always (and as always, a bit of a struggle in the last third or so).",
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"notes": "I've seen this one referenced as the kind of thing the [Sad Puppies](http://www.logophile.org/blog/2015/04/05/democracy-social-media-and-science-fiction-award-nominations/) hate, and also as a clever fantasy/sf hybrid, with the genre balance shifting as the series progresses. I enjoyed it, but not enough to grab the rest of the series just yet.",
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"notes": "A fairy story, of the Strange & Norrell flavour of fairies (indeed, I was probably pointed to it as an influence on Strange & Norrell). Maintains a surprising level of tension, and generally refuses to live up to all sorts of expectations. I keep wanting to use the word \"odd\" about this one.",
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"notes": "A comic; fun enough, but did not send me looking for more.",
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"notes": "A short story collection: these are so good, and so awfully depressing.",
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"notes": "Autobiography of a famous New Zealand writer. She has an incredible eye for vivid, surprising detail. The following two volumes are in my bookshelf.",
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"notes": "Charles Stross's *Laundry* series is a funny beast: spy stuff meets Cthulhu mythos with a side-dose of computer-geek. The series started campy and fun (which is how I usually like my Cthulhu mythos), but it seems like somewhere along the line Stross started taking the implications seriously: the setting is getting darker with each book, and the characters are getting more rounded and realistic (with all the warts that implies).",
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"notes": "Several kinds of complex formal structure combine to make this pure [nerd-snipery](https://xkcd.com/356/) for me. I re-read it before starting [some structural analyses](http://tikitu.github.io/vellum_and_ink/), then semi-re-re-read it by accident while doing the analyses.",
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"notes": "This was a lot of fun: a simple story of polar survival, but wrapped around in the author's research project to verify it.",
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"notes": "Again McDermott didn't quite manage to click for me. This one was recommended to me for taking steampunk to its logical, horrible, extreme. It does that, indeed.",
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"notes": "Did not convince me: the philosophy it espouses is so clearly set up to be able to dismiss any potential challenge or disagreement without examining its merits. I did get a laugh from seeing the author's musical prejudices wrapped up in Taoist jargon though.",
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"notes": "Dipping my toes back into another of Stross's series, to see if I enjoy it more a second time around. Conclusion: nope, not for me.",
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"notes": "I suppose this deserves its classic status, but I can't say I was terribly thrilled. Perhaps its because its message seems at the same time blindingly obvious (it was written in response to the Vietnam war) and only marginally relevant to today's Western world.",
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"notes": " A guidebook to an imaginary place featuring substantial amounts of generated text; as you would expect from Emily Short there's also a story woven in. After the guidebook she writes about the techniques she used for the generated text, which is fascinating.",
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"notes": "Now this is more like it! I wish I had read this one a few years back: in the meantime I've accumulated much of the same advice, but piecemeal and much more slowly. I recommend this one to any early-career programmer. It's slightly dated in parts (the advice on version control apparently predates `git`) but basically solid.",
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"notes": "Gave up at 41%. He has interesting things to say, but recycling blog posts means he says each of them 17 times. When you start watching the progress bar and longing for 50%, it's time to cut and run.",
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"notes": "'m a fan of [Small Beer Press](http://smallbeerpress.com/), who published this one. Increasingly these days I'm uncomfortable with fictional portrayals of abuse, when it seems to be used casually. (I'm not sure what's changed in my sensibilities; perhaps having children has an effect.) The brutality of the protagonist's situation as the novel opens triggered this discomfort, and I never quite shook it off.",
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"notes": "A quick and simple guide to scepticism about reported statistics. A bit dry, but it's very short.",
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"notes": "The publication date (before the PC revolution really took hold, and long before the iPhone) make for some amusing predictions (both hits and misses). The major themes are as relevant as they always were, though.",
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