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This book has a novel inside a novel and then... there's a novel inside the novel that is inside the novel!

I don't really know if that's a good thing. I was not very interested in the third level down. I cared about the characters in the main novel. Maybe it was deliberate that I wouldn't care so much the further levels down.

The main novel characters know each other from the Staples they work at. That was definitely fun.

And I'm happy to report that this book was in my big pile of books to read and now I can put it in one of the nearby little free libraries.

Of course this was fun. It's Christopher Moore.

This book has a novel inside a novel and then... there's a novel inside the novel that is inside the novel!

I don't really know if that's a good thing. I was not very interested in the third level down. I cared about the characters in the main novel. Maybe it was deliberate that I wouldn't care so much the further levels down.

The main novel characters know each other from the Staples they work at. That was definitely fun.

And I'm happy to report that this book was in my big pile of books to read and now I can put it in one of the nearby little free libraries.

This was fun. Reminiscent of Neal Stephenson.

No talking cats or mice, but people bonded with animals. If there's a sequel, we can hope someone to bond with a cat or a rodent.

This is a great fantasy series.

And so far, all the books end properly, so if you can't read the next book right away, it's all right. I mean, you will want to read the next one because you'll want to spend more time with some of the characters, but it will be okay if you have to wait a while.

This was interesting for a while but then I just wanted it to be over with and to find out what had happened.

Coupland ends the book by telling you what happened to everyone, breaking the writing rule of "don't tell, show".

It wasn't very engaging, but since I'd reached the point where I wanted it to be over, I was okay with it.

For a simple guy like me, this volume was much easier to read. Poldarn gets to learn who he is and we usually know who is who.

Not exactly an uplifting tail, but it's nothing like any other fantasy series out there.

This was fun. Reminiscent of Neal Stephenson.

No talking cats or mice, but people bonded with animals. If there's a sequel, we can hope someone to bond with a cat or a rodent.

The only problem with this excellent piece of space opera is that it is only just over a hundred pages. I'd really like to read more about where this goes.

The only problem with this excellent piece of space opera is that it is only just over a hundred pages. I'd really like to read more about where this goes.

This was an engrossing story with a new version of time travel.

I was able to let myself overlook a fundamental paradox in how it couldn't work with multiple people living their lives over and over again while changing how things go, but I still fully enjoyed it.

I really don't know how it took me so long to discover Claire North's books.

This collection shows the enormously wide range that Jo Walton can do.

In her introduction, she says that she could write novels right away, but struggled to write short stories. She goes further to say that some of the stories in this collection still aren't right. I wouldn't try to guess which ones aren't right, because every story felt right to me.

There's even one that has a talking cat.