Earthsea is very good. It’s kind of YA, but from before the term existed, so it should be good if you find your mind wandering when reading. Plus, it gets progressively darker and weirder as the series goes on.

It’s quite different from JS&MN, except in being about magic. If your library doesn’t have it, it’s worth buying a copy!

My top recommendation for ‘fantastical […] with amazing first person descriptive prose’ is Piranesi by Susanna Clarke. It’s beautiful and unlike anything you’ve ever read. I’ve bought it for three or four different people now and they’ve all loved it. Couldn’t recommend it more highly, a genuine five star read.

Other people have already said Ulysses and Mrs Dalloway, both modernist classics that take place in a single day. There are a couple of other examples of similar novels, but the only one that springs to mind right now is a deeply annoying experimental ‘novel’ called Fidget by Oliver Goldsmith, which I don’t recommend at all. He wore a tape recorder and spoke out loud describing everything he did that day, then transcribed it all and that’s the book. If you do decide to read it, don’t say I didn’t warn you.

I don’t know if this will count for you, but there’s a hypertext novel called 253 by Geoff Ryman which IIRC takes place over just a couple of minutes, with very short chapters describing the thoughts of each of the 253 passengers on board a train. He did later also publish a print version.

I agree with your description of him, but the only thing that’s relevant here is the insurrection. It’s important not to muddy the waters with the other stuff!

Prior to the election, Donald Trump incited the Proud Boys specifically and other militant groups to insurrection with his ‘stand back and stand by’ comments. These were taken by many observers and the Proud Boys themselves as calls to seditious conspiracy. Members of the Proud Boys then planned the 6 January attack, including planting bombs around Washington DC, and were involved in the attack on the Capitol. Many have been convicted of this conspiracy, so there’s no legal question as to whether it happened. I don’t know if incitement to an insurrection counts as insurrection in and of itself. It might do, but I’m not a lawyer.

Having lost the election, Trump knowingly engaged in a conspiracy to undermine a free and fair election, which he knew he had lost, in order to keep himself in power. Some aspects of that conspiracy have gone to trial and defendants have been found guilty. So, there remain some legal questions as to the extent of the conspiracy, but it is quite clear that people involved broke the law in the pursuit of the conspiracy. The conspiracy constitutes an attempted insurrection in itself.

When his conspiracy failed, he then incited a violent attempt to overthrow the election (the ‘fiery stuff to a rally’) and allowed it to continue as people were violently attacked. This also constitutes an attempted insurrection.

Yes, the exciting thing is that they used two different methods, they both worked and they each independently confirmed the other’s findings! That’s why they’re so confident in the words they found.

The big hope now is that they’ll be able to keep refining and developing the systems to get more out of the scrolls.

Yeah, it seems to refer to the colour but they’re not sure if it’s a noun or an adjective, because they can’t make out the rest of the context with confidence (yet!).

Right and… then what? Biden isn’t guilty of anything. The Senate wouldn’t convict him. Even if the Senate did convict (which they won’t), Harris, who even Trump isn’t pretending has done anything wrong, would then become President. What’s the endgame, here? We all know there isn’t one. It’s just the politics of endless grievance and whinging.

Came here to say this. I’d much prefer to see the Seven/Raffi/Jack Next-Next-Gen on the TitanEnterprise G than yet another prequel.

Frank Kermode has a book called Shakespeare’s Language, which I find very helpful for reading Shakespeare, and it includes a chapter on Macbeth.

In terms of versions, the one starring Ian McKellen and Judi Dench is very dark and weird, and also very good. You can also watch the whole thing online, which helps!

There’s also a version that I like a lot that unfortunately was directed by a certain disgraced director and sex offender, and which I’m therefore reluctant to recommend, but possibly you could pirate Roman Polanski’s version, which is genuinely nightmarish, as Macbeth should be.

Ha, quite funny that I keep finding people I know elsewhere on the Fediverse!

Lemmy’s good so far. I like the format for discussions but it’s a bit ‘quiet’. How about you?

Yeah, I was similarly baffled!

Like this kind of thing?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_cooker#Vacuum_tube_technology

I agree with you about Strange and Norrell. The pacing was poor and it was over-long.

But!

Susanna Clarke’s next book, Piranesi, is actually really good. Like, really, incredibly good. I recommend it to everyone and so far no one has said anything but positive things about it. I rarely re-read books but this is one that I’ve come back to.

As it happens, I read Piranesi first, so I found JS&MN a bit disappointing, but I’m glad I read them that way around otherwise I might have skipped Piranesi, and that would have been a mistake!

Solar Bones by Mike McCormack was really bad. It was meant to be ‘experimental’ but it was literally just a very boring story with, get this, no punctuation (an ‘experiment’ first conducted about a hundred years ago). There were literally pages and pages where the narrator complained about a building with poorly poured concrete foundations at one point (yes, really). It was quite short, so I got through it, but it was just totally pointless!