Wasted a perfectly good Saturday morning not doing anything. I kept thinking “Raid is soon, I should do something beforehand.” But what? I already finished my last book (Absolution) (great book, I liked it better than the og trilogy) and hadn’t yet picked something else to read. I didn’t feel like playing Dome Keeper. I watched a watercolor vid and did some concept sketches for a piece of my own, but wasn’t feeling any of them. I spent too much time in LD chat discussing the new updates that got reverted. Then it was already lunch time.
Sunday morning was better. I got out of my head and did stuff: watercolored a Mother’s Day card, then felt like more watercolor so I did a lil flowerpot house, then continued my reread of Finch. (Sunny morning in the kitchen. The best.) Almost managed to finish the book before raid, but not quite, so it's a good thing it was a reread.
Glad to see Finch still holds up. I was obsessed with this book in 2015, like “best book ever” zone. Coming back to it now, I’ve read enough weird fiction that I’m not overawed by it, but I still really like the weirdness, the noir atmosphere, and how well it functions as an answer arc for the trilogy.
It’s hard to find works that hit as hard as your favorites from when you were younger. I got to thinking, if I read The Works of Vermin back in 2015 instead of the Ambergris Cycle, would it be one of my favorites today? I don’t quite think it would hold the same place in my heart. The Works of Vermin has better character work and a very colorful world. But it lacks the intensity of Finch, and it doesn’t have the same question-arc-to-answer-arc buildup (very hard to achieve in a standalone).
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