Everything has been building to the Sunglade. The scattered Cha’Tel’Quessir, the lurking Red Wizards, the ancient gods stirring beneath the forest floor. These three chapters are where it all crashes together, and the results are brutal.
This is part of my series retelling Diary of a Very Bad Year. Today we’re covering Chapter VIII.
It’s July 2, 2009. The Dow sits at 8,280. Unemployment is at 9.5%. And HFM is doing something he hasn’t done in a decade. He’s going on vacation. A real one.
Book: A Name to Conjure With by Donald Aamodt (1989)
Three nights of hard travel. Everyone’s short-tempered. Nobody talks except to argue. Sandy passes the time composing bawdy limericks for Glupp. The grundzar beams at every one, probably because he doesn’t understand any of them. Sandy calls him a bootlicker. Glupp literally licks his boot.
Book: Backyard Farming: Composting | Author: Kim Pezza | ISBN: 978-1-57826-587-9 | Hatherleigh Press, 2015
Composting sounds simple because it is. Stuff rots. But Chapter 7 of Pezza’s book gets into the actual science of what’s happening inside your pile, and honestly? It’s way more interesting than you’d expect. There are bacteria working in shifts, temperatures that could cook an egg, and yes, the possibility of spontaneous combustion. We’ll get to that.
Every book about raising pigs eventually gets to the fun stuff. The weird trivia. The facts that make you stop and say “wait, really?” Kim Pezza saved some of the best material for the end of her book, and honestly, some of this is wild.
Chapter 23 is the longest chapter in the book and it earns every page. This is the climax of the Efuan Pincar storyline, the screaming spiders storyline, and the Gix storyline all at once. Buckle up.
Book: Commodities: Markets, Performance, and Strategies
Editors: H. Kent Baker, Greg Filbeck, Jeffrey H. Harris
Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2018
ISBN: 9780190656010
Book: A Name to Conjure With by Donald Aamodt (1989)
The group crawls out of the ruined tower to find the oasis destroyed. The Shurva wrecked everything. Vegetation is blackened scraps and ash. Only the fortress survived, protected by whatever ancient power lingers in its walls.
This is part of my series retelling Diary of a Very Bad Year. Today we’re covering Chapter VII.
It’s May 2009. The Dow is at 8,504. Unemployment is 9.4 percent. Over 342,000 homes got foreclosed that month. But the worst of the panic? That part seems to be over.
Banks take months to decide if you’re worth lending to. Online lenders figured out how to do it in hours.