It sounds like this was the receiving party: letters from Orwell to his publisher (and other papers related to publishing his work, like contracts and internal memos). if Orwell had kept copies for his records, I suspect they would already be properly archived, yes.
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This is correspondence and such that's been sitting around in a warehouse for however many years, untouched.
I picked Weak Heart by Ban Gilmartin back up, and am now about 2/3 of the way through. It's a fast read, and I'm enjoying it, despite my irrational dislike of first person present tense.
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Finally finished On Stranger Tides by Tim Powers. If you like Pirates of the Caribbean or Monkey Island, with a random dude getting caught up in a swashbuckling pirate adventure, this ticks (almost) all the boxes (it's not humorous). I was pleasantly surprised that the magic system makes reference to actual vodou, rather than just the pop culture version, and that there's a bits of history in the background you may recognize if you like pirate stuff. The pacing is a series of lulls and swells of action, rather than a steady build to a single climax (although there is a final culmination of events); I was never bored, but I also didn't find it un-put-downable, and I'm not sure how much of that was the writing, and how much was being too sleepy to read more than a few pages a night.
Bingo squares: Water, Water Everywhere; What's Yours Is Mine (probably hard mode?); Eazy, Breazy, Read-zie; Stranger in a Strange Land (hard mode); (alt) A Change in Perspective
This seems to be set in the same universe as The Witch: Part 1. The Subversion, which I enjoyed. Gonna have to bump Part 2 up my to-be-watched list.
Had another week of not reading much, so I'm still trying to wrap up On Stranger Tides. It's still enjoyable, but I'm impatient to move onto something new.
Hellraiser.
I'm fine with articles, but would prefer them to be informative about process or history. It'd also be nice if any posted article included a piece of art in the thumbnail, so everyone still gets something to look at.
Ah, gotcha. Yeah, something not being the kind of sci-fi you were expecting is always rough. I hope you find On Stranger Tides more enjoyable!
I'm liking it pretty well (haven't read anything by him before). There's a big, foreshadowed event coming up pretty soon, I think, and then I'm not sure where it's going to go, beyond "save the girl".
Did you have issues with Three Days to Never besides the first half being slow? This has been fairly quickly paced so far.
Didn't get much reading done last week; I'm about 40% of the way through On Stranger Tides by Tim Powers.
I really enjoyed A Psalm for the Wild Built; hope it hits for you, too.
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I'm about halfway through Malice by Keigo Higashino. It's unusual in that it's not a who dunnit, it's a why dunnit, and that half of the book (this is not a spoiler) is the murderer's unreliable written account, interspersed with chapters of the detective's report. The prose is a little dry (not sure if that's a translation issue, or if it's that way in the original Japanese), but it's short and engaging.
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Finished Weak Heart by Ban Gilmartin. Sort of an urban fantasy on a remote Scottish island, dealing with Scottish folklore and a missing friend/ex. There are some monsters and apparitions, but I wouldn't call it horror (although you might want to check content warnings, as there is some reliving of past traumas). Very much a peek into the two main characters' heads as they investigate, learn to tolerate each other, and grow over the course of the story. Kind of a YA vibe, but not. Recommended if that sounds like your jam.
Bingo squares: Independent Author, LGBTQIA+ Lead (hard). (Maybe also Family Drama, if you count unrelated-but-raised-together.)