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The Broken and the godlike powers, the huge, multidimensional AIs and other gods (even homebrew ones on humanity's side) makes this a really interesting book. The Infinite is a solid end to the trilogy, but beyond that, it's a pretty excellent example of Lovecraftian huge-space opera with huge scope and particularly fine mind-breaking elements. Frieda figures out that the body belongs to a conman named Robert Poole. It’s a little surprising to me how comfortable I’ve become with audiobooks. The first two books I read in 2020 were both audiobooks, which shows that this year began on a busy note. With no idea who the man is, Chief Inspector Karlsson is looking for help and calls Frieda Klein. It’s the end of March and I’ve FINALLY started reviewing the books I read this year, smh. A social worker visits one of her clients and is surprised to see the client is serving tea to a man’s corpse. Tuesday’s Gone by Nicci French is the second book in the Frieda Klein series. 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It took me a very, very long time to get into the first half of the book, and there were times when I considered giving up on it completely – mainly because I struggled to follow what was going on, and was confused by all the coded abbreviations, plane jargon, jumping between different time periods, and rambling writing style. Needless to say, this makes for quite grim reading at times, and my initial feelings about the book were mixed, to say the least. While being held prisoner of war in northern France, and forced to regurgitate everything she knows about the British war effort in return for her life, Julie pours out her story, flitting between her horrific experiences in the prison and her memories of her developing friendship with Maddie. After a daring mission into German-occupied France goes disastrously wrong, the two best friends are separated, and it is at this point that the story begins. Filled with examples of great and gruesome prose, Pinker shows us how the art of writing can be a form of pleasurable mastery and a fascinating intellectual topic in its own right. He replaces dogma about usage with reason and evidence, allowing writers and editors to apply the guidelines judiciously, rather than robotically, being mindful of what they are designed to accomplish. In this short, cheerful, and eminently practical book, Pinker shows how writing depends on imagination, empathy, coherence, grammatical knowhow, and an ability to savor and reverse engineer the good prose of others. Instead, he applies insights from the sciences of language and mind to the challenge of crafting clear, coherent, and stylish prose. Rethinking the usage guide for the twenty-first century, Pinker doesn’t carp about the decline of language or recycle pet peeves from the rulebooks of a century ago. 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