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Jay Daze is 25% done with The Empire of Gold (The Daevabad Trilogy, #3)
Part one ends with Nahri and Ali sailing up river to meet up with Ali's ma in magic world, and Dara more split with Manisheh as he lies to her, not mentioning he has seen Ali's sister N.
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The Empire of Gold (The Daevabad Trilogy, #3)

Jay Daze
Jay Daze is 22% done with The Empire of Gold (The Daevabad Trilogy, #3)
Light romance yearning and sorta triangle in this trilogy, actually a bit of star-crossed lovers light but not too pushed upon. More the question if these hatreds can ever be over-come or if they are structurally doomed. A sadly contemporary question.
Dec 24, 2025 12:40AM Add a comment
The Empire of Gold (The Daevabad Trilogy, #3)

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Jay Daze is 87% done with The Blood of the Vampire: An independent woman in Europe with White-Black mixed race heritage
Chapter 16 done. I wonder if Harriet will do herself in because the novel seems to posit she is cursed and doomed, no matter what her good intentions are towards Anthony Pennell. Such a terrible premise!
Dec 23, 2025 07:22PM Add a comment
The Blood of the Vampire: An independent woman in Europe with White-Black mixed race heritage

Jay Daze
Jay Daze is 15% done with The Empire of Gold (The Daevabad Trilogy, #3)
Nahir on the lam with Ali while Dara is the the enforcer for Manizheh. And Nahir has a Moses origin story with a woman making a deal with a madir (water being) to get her to safety from her burning village...
Dec 23, 2025 06:07PM Add a comment
The Empire of Gold (The Daevabad Trilogy, #3)

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Jay Daze is 61% done with Big Chief
Sick day is good for reading! Out to visit Waabizh and son Joe Paulson. Learn Mitch's native name -- Mishkigaboo -- Strong Standing. Ah irony.
Dec 21, 2025 03:50PM Add a comment
Big Chief

Jay Daze
Jay Daze is 53% done with Big Chief
Joe's death and the fallout with Maureen and Layla. Gloria makes a stron showing. At first thought she was playing M & M but actually caring, maybe? Reed is going to be something bad by the end of the novel. Too many shivers! One note too loud, played to exhaustion!
Dec 21, 2025 01:29PM Add a comment
Big Chief

Jay Daze
Jay Daze is 40% done with Big Chief
When does an repeating image or idea become just too much? The shiver doesn't have a lot of varations which makes it tedious to me. But what do I know? I found 'so it goes' annoying as well. The question of whether fuck up Mitch Caddo can be a 'good guy' or 'one of the good ones' is interesting though. 'one of the good ones' out of the mouth of a white character like Joe Beck sounds bad though...
Dec 21, 2025 10:15AM Add a comment
Big Chief

Jay Daze
Jay Daze is 29% done with Big Chief
Mitch and Layla Beck, his unwillingness to commit and believe that he is worth loving.
Dec 20, 2025 01:53PM Add a comment
Big Chief

Jay Daze
Jay Daze is 45% done with The Genius of Trees: How They Mastered the Elements and Shaped the World
All done except the notes, bibliography and annotations and...
Dec 19, 2025 01:51PM Add a comment
The Genius of Trees: How They Mastered the Elements and Shaped the World

Jay Daze
Jay Daze is 16% done with Big Chief
the shiver
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Big Chief

Jay Daze
Jay Daze is 41% done with The Genius of Trees: How They Mastered the Elements and Shaped the World
We dream of and in trees. Climbing and rocking. Sometimes falling.
Dec 17, 2025 10:25AM Add a comment
The Genius of Trees: How They Mastered the Elements and Shaped the World

Jay Daze
Jay Daze is 32% done with The Genius of Trees: How They Mastered the Elements and Shaped the World
Just holding on by my fingernails on scientific understanding, but wonderfully written and jammed packed with amazing insight to how wonderfully complex and mindblowingly interconnected trees are with all life on the planet. Challenging in the best way.
Dec 15, 2025 05:50PM Add a comment
The Genius of Trees: How They Mastered the Elements and Shaped the World

Jay Daze
Jay Daze is 95% done with Tricks for Free (InCryptid, #7)
Love story between Mindy & Mork, of course, and some low key naughty harrassment of sexy Sam by teen presenting but 70 years plus dead Aunt Mary. Fun but not essential. Can say that about alot of Incryptid, but that ain't a complaint.
Dec 08, 2025 03:28PM Add a comment
Tricks for Free (InCryptid, #7)

Jay Daze
Jay Daze is 84% done with Tricks for Free (InCryptid, #7)
Done. The rest is a novella of the Mice. Will check if that is listed as a separate work. Enjoyed this way-station middle chapter in Antimony's adventure.
Dec 07, 2025 03:13PM Add a comment
Tricks for Free (InCryptid, #7)

Jay Daze
Jay Daze is 61% done with Tricks for Free (InCryptid, #7)
Luck siphon Antimony.
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Tricks for Free (InCryptid, #7)

Jay Daze
Jay Daze is 41% done with Tricks for Free (InCryptid, #7)
Big kiss as Sam the monkey man shows up. Personally I hope the whole corporate socerer training doesn't get dropped. This feels like a set-up book, but I am enjoying the set-up. This series weirdly gets a lot of passes from me. McGuire is doing something right, for me at least.
Dec 05, 2025 11:57AM Add a comment
Tricks for Free (InCryptid, #7)

Jay Daze
Jay Daze is 69% done with The Blood of the Vampire: An independent woman in Europe with White-Black mixed race heritage
So far this is a dreary soap-opera melodrama with unpleasant shallow characters and a rascist supernatural/eugenics element of energy vampirism... I hate them all.
Dec 05, 2025 11:54AM Add a comment
The Blood of the Vampire: An independent woman in Europe with White-Black mixed race heritage

Jay Daze
Jay Daze is 24% done with Tricks for Free (InCryptid, #7)
Lowryland has a magic section with a routewicth, a trainspotter and a socerer (wand guy) who wants to train her but it is the corporate cold bloodness which is the scary part. Oh and a guy got stabbed to death in the park. A GUEST - which is a no-no for Lowry policy.
Dec 03, 2025 10:29AM Add a comment
Tricks for Free (InCryptid, #7)

Jay Daze
Jay Daze is 51% done with The Blood of the Vampire: An independent woman in Europe with White-Black mixed race heritage
Back in London and Harriet discovers that the Barroness' Red House is a dump.
Dec 01, 2025 03:43PM Add a comment
The Blood of the Vampire: An independent woman in Europe with White-Black mixed race heritage

Jay Daze
Jay Daze is 43% done with The Deep Sky
See Asuka's worth as a survivor and not having leadership skills. Fuzzy still why anyone would sabotage and kill captain unless for the mission. And is this all one big simulation. Lot of sims in training and psychological fuckery that everyone lives in personal bubble universes that never allow them to be present, other than Asuka because of malfuncion with hers. Or was she taken off line so she could be better?
Nov 28, 2025 10:37AM Add a comment
The Deep Sky

Jay Daze
Jay Daze is 27% done with The Deep Sky
Curious what fuckery happened that got Asuka on board. And is she a sleeper sleeper agent for SME? Not aware of what she did? Prob not... But--
Nov 26, 2025 10:07AM Add a comment
The Deep Sky

Jay Daze
Jay Daze is 18% done with The Deep Sky
So far my money is on the AI hiding stuff under DAR the augmented reality and also positioning crew to die in blast, especially the Captain.
Nov 25, 2025 11:39AM Add a comment
The Deep Sky

Jay Daze
Jay Daze is 16% done with The Deep Sky
Asuka doesn't fit anywhere, is the Alternate not picked forthe crew and might be the best person to figure out if their is a saboteur in the generational Phoneix spaceship.
Nov 25, 2025 12:41AM Add a comment
The Deep Sky

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Jay Daze is 63% done with Magic for Nothing (InCryptid, #6)
The unfortunate Umeko (spider woman) and more unfortunate Pablo and teens too...
Nov 21, 2025 12:13PM Add a comment
Magic for Nothing (InCryptid, #6)

Jay Daze
Jay Daze is 20% done with Magic for Nothing (InCryptid, #6)
Back in the USA Madison, Wis and having Robert Bullard and Margaret Healey as minders. Bullard is in particular and well drawn asshole. Now to infiltrate the circus posing as a circus girl who is posing as a Covenant opp killer but is actually a Cryptozoologist Price bad-ass...
Nov 19, 2025 01:51PM Add a comment
Magic for Nothing (InCryptid, #6)

Jay Daze
Jay Daze is 44% done with The Blood of the Vampire: An independent woman in Europe with White-Black mixed race heritage
Ethel died. Infant death is hard to handle see if it will be carried by Marryat.
Nov 19, 2025 10:55AM Add a comment
The Blood of the Vampire: An independent woman in Europe with White-Black mixed race heritage

Jay Daze
Jay Daze is 20% done with Magic for Nothing (InCryptid, #6)
Alright. At the bookstore in London and the infiltration begins. Also my money on her bagging the young dude that led her to the shop and is the old gruff dude's grandson... (Leo the grandson and Reginald Cunningham the old dude. And she is posing as Timpani Brown, a surviving daughter of a bunch of circus folk killed by a swarm of Apraxis wasps - wasps the size of kittens.)
Nov 18, 2025 01:03PM Add a comment
Magic for Nothing (InCryptid, #6)

Jay Daze
Jay Daze is 67% done with Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It
The house always wins seems to be the rule, but Doctorow is proposing other rules and regs -- though does seem quite the uphill battle.
Nov 16, 2025 11:24AM Add a comment
Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It

Jay Daze
Jay Daze is 31% done with Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It
Now into the meat. How decisions made by government gave monopolistic companies the tools to make life shitty for us all. And if you are a corporation how can you NOT take advantage of these ways of screwing everyone over for a buck? Especially with no concequences?
Nov 13, 2025 11:06AM Add a comment
Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It

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