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Faction Paradox: The Boulevard, Vol. 2 Review - Beginner-friendly, but I liked it too!

Oh lord it’s been nearly two years since my last Faction Paradox review. I certainly haven’t lost interest in the series, though. It’s just been a busy time for me, between reading and writing other things and moving into my new house. I still plan to continue talking about this series whenever I find time, and what better place to start than the newest book? Especially because it’s one I’d been hotly anticipating. The first Boulevard book ranks among the most disappointing entries in the series for me but I still love the idea of the Boulevard. So how was book two?           In short: this was almost exactly what I wanted the first book to be like. If the Boulevard as a concept interests you, this is the one to get. Almost every story here is at least good, the variety is impressive and the editing is stronger than last time. Not flawless, mind you. There are still spaces between every paragraph and a handful of typos, albeit not as many as last time. Bu...

Aimless Thoughts: Thanksgiving

     There’s an inside joke my coworkers have about me, which they’ve always been good about explaining to new hires. Basically, they use me as a thermometer. You know it’s cold if Max is wearing long sleeves. I think it’s overstated, personally. They’re not wrong that I’ve got an unusually high cold tolerance. They’re not wrong that I’ve spent a lot of time outside in short sleeves while it was actively snowing. But that’s only because a lot of the light snowfall we see these days happens when it’s barely below 32. You better believe I wear more than that when I shovel, when there’s high wind, etc etc…      It always gets me thinking about the cold. You ever think about how cold the universe is? The universe is so fucking cold that most of the plainly visible regular matter out there is held in literal balls of fire and it’s still cold . Industrialization has ushered in an exceptionally hot era of Earth’s history, but even during an ice age our world go...