Ray McCarthy

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TBR pile seems embarrassingly big? Overwhelming?

Call it a library.

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Knowing your East and West helps?

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If you need rescued today:
Tiffany is now quite grown up and may be wearing Granny’s boots now.

OTOH, 20 years ago, you’d want Granny.

Susan can look after herself. I’d not trust her on the rescuing stuff.

Carrot’s probably helping to raise a cub.

Conan may be preserved in a block of ice.

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Black with silver embroidery reading Metallica?
Though neither are to my taste in music, which is otherwise quite wide.

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Fahrenheit 451, though Ray Bradbury claimed it was inspired by a woman listening to a radio. Also TV replacing books.

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Watch out for mould or arsenic (green covers?) on old books.
Never been a fan of it. I prefer reading.

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Oh, and leadins such as small caps or drop caps reduce readibility and accessibility even on paper, They often fail in ebooks.
No indent at start of chapter or after scene break, then 1.3em / 16pt indent for regular paragraphs. Only extra space between paragraphs on printed kids books if no indent.

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It depends how interesting and/or relevant it is.

Dune actually only has quotes (imaginary) separating “chapters”.
Most of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld novels have simple scene breaks and no chapter breaks*. Footnotes are annoying in fiction and eventually Pratchett stopped doing them. They also don’t work well (or at all sometimes) in real ebooks as they don’t have design-time pages.
[* some others seem to lack chapters]

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Actually most popular fiction isn’t very realistic:
Romance
Detective / Mystery
Spy
Thrillers / Adventure
Westerns (not popular now).
Non SF & F horror.
Robinsonades

A novel need not be one genre, that’s a publisher/marketing thing.

There is a spectrum between SF - fantasy - paranormal etc.
Dune and especially the early Pern novels are far more Fantasy than SF.

Even a lot of autobiographies are fiction or fantasy!

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That was deliberately based on Arabs and oil.

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We call the soft bud-shaped ones the Pussy Willow.

Catkins hang down and I think on hazel (most common here), birch & some oak. Maybe one kind of willow has catkins.

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Thanks, not seen that.
Added to my wish lists to watch ebook price.

Previously all my Fforde books are on paper, but now I only buy novels as ebooks (taking care to have real backups).

Currently £4.99 or £4.80

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https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/game-of-thrones-george-rr-martin-winds-of-winter-b2901719.html

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IMO “The Last Dragonslayer” has more logic than the Thursday Next series, though I felt the last book was weakest.

I think the last Thursday Next book is in progress.

I’ve enjoyed him more than J. R. (fake K) or G R R (read his Short story collection & liked it, & then read 1st Book in " A Song of Ice and Fire" before the adaptation & hated it).