book_talk e_o_i ...omitting bus look-ups, these recent_searches are all in the realm of books: a spindle splintered shatter me siri hustvedt The first two are both fantasy novels, broadly speaking. The first I enjoyed reservedly: it was fun and surprisingly moving, but I found it too glib at times. The third is a writer who wrote a book I enjoyed unreservedly: A Summer Without Men. Back to the middle. I haven't read Shatter Me, but someone suggested I might find the narration style interesting. Shatter me and I will be splintered. Reservedly, unreservedly? The first seems to be popular online, reminding me that I *don't* like how the Indigo near me has a "BookTok" section now. Why is "popular online" a book category? Does this draw together similar styles or themes, or is it just a catchy cash grab?? But at the same time, I don't want to dismiss something just *because* it's popular. Two sides of the same fallacy coin. Pah, I'm on a tangent. How do I get out? SOHCAHTOA? Trigonometry? Triangulation? My first pun here was that book talk sounds like BookTok (obvious), which makes me wonder if I should have a book-reviewing YouTube channel...when I haven't even started the simple blog. Blah, how can I talk about books if I can't get organized enough to start new things once every ice age??? 250415 ... epitome of incomprehensibility I also haven't finished books_finished_2024. Or books_finished_2025, but that would require going forward in time. I like that it's started, though! 250416 what's it to you? who go blather from