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Gay IT analyst at a rural university. FLOSS enthusiast. Pacifist. Taoist. Anti-capitalist. Believer in social justice. Nintendo fan.

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Mercedes Lackey, Larry Dixon: The Black Gryphon (Valdemar: Mage Wars #1) (Paperback, 1995, DAW) 4 stars

It is an age when Valdemar is yet unfounded, its organization of Heralds yet unformed, …

There is something about mercedes lackey books that really causes my heart to wrench when characters die. I'm not going to say it's always because of the depth of the character or even the amount of empathy one has with the character.

I feel like it's something kind of intrinsic to the romantic fantasy genre. That the focus is so squarely on how that death impacts everyone else in the story.

I honestly didn't expect the book to wrap up the way it did. I quite thought the plot of this book could have encompassed the entire trilogy. This first act could have been expanded into a trilogy in it's own right.

Im sad a few characters couldn't stay around for longer. Especially as a few of them are quite legendary for the future Valdemar books ive already read. I would have like to have spent more time with them. …

Howard Page-Clark: Learn to Program using Lazarus (2013, Stichting Programmeertaal Pascal / Propascal Foundation) No rating

Finished this last week but never got around to posting about it.

It's a very functional intro to programming for the beginner, and it was immensely helpful in dusting off my pascal neurons.

Very few other books focus on Object Pascal from the point of view of free software tools, despite the free software tooling being rather good.

I wish I could have it in print. But as far as I can tell it is only available as an ebook these days.

Might have to take the PDF to a printer and see if I can get it spiral bound one day.

Mercedes Lackey, Larry Dixon: The Black Gryphon (Valdemar: Mage Wars #1) (Paperback, 1995, DAW) 4 stars

It is an age when Valdemar is yet unfounded, its organization of Heralds yet unformed, …

I never read anything from this trilogy so far. Even though I've read half a dozen or more other Valdemar books. The two most unique things about this book so far:

So much is from the point of view of non human protagonists. With a considerable thought taken to their biology, culture, diet, etc.

For a book about a mage war, it is the lives of support staff at basecamp and a small handful of non human soldiers who are front in center. The great mages and generals are viewed almost entirely through the eyes of those most impacted by them.