Health update: I did not go to work or to PTCs tonight, and I have lost eight and a half pounds since the last time I weighed myself a week ago. A slight positive from this is that I am currently the lightest I have been in the better part of a decade. I really really really need to go to work tomorrow and I’m just not convinced it’s a good idea.

Anyway, you might remember this post from about a month ago, where I’m looking at books or series I’ve abandoned in the past that I feel like deserve a second shot next year. Let’s add three more!

I think I have read Quicksilver and maybe half of the second book, but it was forever ago. Honestly other than these being legendary for being complicated, I don’t remember a damn thing about this book, so it will feel like a first read.

Read the first book! Loved it! It’s phenomenal! Then Ken Liu did not translate the second book, and I think I got maybe a hundred pages into it before setting it down in disgust. But Ken Liu did translate the third book, so it’s probably time to force myself through Book Two so that I can finish the series.

(Fun fact: I asked Ken once why he didn’t translate the second book. His response was a politer version of “How much of my own career do you think I should set aside to translate books other people wrote?” which makes complete and perfect sense.)

I’ve tried to read this fucking thing twice. I think I made it a third of the way through on my second attempt. This will be the last one. If it doesn’t click this time, I give up forever.