When even Twitter being adorable can’t snap you out of a melancholy mood, you know you’re in trouble.
This is the best thing I’ve ever seen. pic.twitter.com/xBEcHkmBzM
— Jon Holmes (@jonholmes1) March 10, 2017
1. Here’s something positive – I’ve read a TON of really good books recently. The last time I wrote about books, I was in the middle of reading George Saunders’ Lincoln in the Bardo, which was great and I only wish I hadn’t rushed through the ending as quickly as I did. After that was John Darnielle’s Universal Harvester (very good, even if the initial premise ends up fading away towards the end), Sarah Pinborough’s Behind Her Eyes (which started off a bit blah, but ended up being great, and has one of the most jaw-dropping endings I can recall), Ursula le Guin’s The Lathe of Heaven (my first le Guin, and what a place to start!), Liz Moore’s The Unseen World (which was beautiful – although it, too, starts off in a direction that it very slowly veers away from), and then last night I finished Dan Chaon’s Ill Will, which was astonishing the whole way through. I realized that I’d bought his earlier novel Await Your Reply a while ago but never read it, and so I’m reading it right now. Instant fan.
2. All this reading has not yet turned itself into lyrics, but I’m getting there. Slowly but surely.
3. Game-wise, I’m still very much enjoying Horizon Zero Dawn although it’s a bit more difficult than I expected, and I’m currently trapped in a dungeon that I may not be able to get out of. At the very least, it’s keeping me thoroughly distracted from wanting Zelda. My rental copy of Nier: Automata arrived last night and I played the first hour, and it’s… pleasantly strange, though I don’t know if it’s where my head is at. I may just need to power through HZD until Mass Effect Andromeda lands.
4. Speaking of which, I already pre-ordered ME:A on Xbox One, and since I’m an EA Access member I think I get to play it a few days early, and if that’s the case, I’ll probably have to put HZD on the back-burner, which means I might not ever get back to it. HZD is the sort of game where you need the controls to feel fresh in your hands, and if I’m gonna spend 60 hours with ME:A, then HZD is going to be very difficult to get back to.
Keep your chin up, kids. Trump can’t be president forever.
Shouts From The Couch 
Three cheers for all things le Guin. She’s the best.
Awe HZD is so good. Take your time with it and enjoy the beauty of the game! ME:A will always be there lol.
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