Two months ago I was 46% through STEAMPUNK CLEOPATRA (Thaddeus Thomas, 2021). Today I'm at 54%. Clearly the book is not clicking with me. I fear I must invoke the #EightDeadlyWords of Dorothy Jones Heydt: "I don't care what happens to these people." While I can see how they got that way, neither main character is particularly likeable.

Also, while I was expecting a steampunk tale (look at the title), what I seem to have is a #SecretHistory, which means nothing is going to outwardly matter at the end. I think I'm just going to read a page or two at the start and end of each chapter, then read the last twenty pages or so, and be done with the book.

On the other hand, I #amReading TIN CAN AIRDALE by M.L. Maki (The Fighting Tomcats #7), an alt-hist novel where a US naval carrier group from 1990 ends up in 1941 and integrates itself into the war. Last night I was reading in the rocker, facing away from the room clock, and when I got up I noticed it was 04:00. (I'm retired: I slept past noon.)

The series is on #KindleUnlimited (a two-year subscription makes that only $6/mo). This is not a particularly well-written or -edited series (plenty of they're/their mix-ups, and so on), but it moves fast and I find it interesting.

#ScienceFiction #scifi #sff #AlternateHistory #AltHistory #AltHist #AH {my kingdom for a canonical hashtag list}

some keywords i relate to:

#ambient #psychedelic #improv #freeform #jazz #fusion

#ttrpg #ludology #magic #chaos #discordian #poee

#mediastudies #digitalhumanities

#secrethistory #althistory

#CambMA

TK

when you go to college to live out yoyr #DarkAcademia fantasies but no one else is wearing tweed or sweater vests and the greek and latin programs are underfunded but otherwise normal and the rich kids wont even have a bacchanalia with you in italy #SecretHistory #DonnaTart #Disappointment

review of The Pale Blue Eye https://paullevinson.blogspot.com/2023/01/the-pale-blue-eye-splendid-secret.html #Poe #secrethistory

One of my fav re-reads of #2022 thanks to @drahsturgis
excellent @SignumU #DarkAcademia class really interesting info from #DonnaTartt the author of #SecretHistory
Donna Tartt Answers Questions About The Secret History, Social Media, More

https://www.today.com/popculture/books/donna-tartt-secret-history-interview-questions-rcna62501

Hidden memorial to a murdered family #norfolk #secretHistory The local news stated that in April 1884 William Frost murdered his 3 daughters Harriet(5) Charlotte(3) & Eliza(18mths) with deadly hammer blows. Not content with that he then drowned his infant daughter Louisa. He was sent for trial for wilful murder under the influence of fanaticism but was later committed to an asylum . Those poor babies