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  1. I listened to the episodes in s1. They were all very entertaining. The host, Tyler Mahan Coe is fantastic. I need to catch up on s2. I've been listening to a ton of Lucero, with some Drive-By Truckers sprinkled in.
  2. It is really a fascinating period. Which reminds me I'm due for a rewatch of Queen Margot.
  3. I've been looking for Robert Merle's Fortunes of France, in either the original French or an eventual English translation. Not sure how far along that translation is. Dorothy Dunnett's Lymond Chronicles are very good, but the reading is very dense with tons of historical references. I would suggest getting the Dorothy Dunnett Companion to assist with all of those references.
  4. Lots and lots of Lucinda Williams, John Prine, Jason Isbell and Tyler Childers
  5. Linked is a March 5th, 2019 Nobel Foundation press release about changes to the Swedish Academy. This may be old news to you, @Myshkin https://www.nobelprize.org/press/#/publication/5c7e5b45d7332000048d54df/552bd85dccc8e20c00e7f979?&sh=false
  6. Roger Crowley wrote several very good books on related topics. Very engaging narrative histories. https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/133064.Roger_Crowley
  7. I don't get the popularity of this series. I couldn't finish the first book either. A unique mystery series is Ben Winters's The Last Policeman trilogy which are set against the backdrop of an inevitable world-ending asteroid strike. The first book follows the Detective Hank Palace as he investigates a suicide. Mind you, with the end of the world approaching, suicides are prevalent, but this one seems a bit suspicious. And why should Hank care about a suspicious suicide when nobody else does? The world is ending. The pre-apocalyptic setting was what was so interesting about the novel. Society unraveling or barely holding itself together. I've only read the first novel in the series so far, but have been meaning to read last two. No knock on the book, I've been having a a tough time completing any series recently.
  8. Maybe Jane Harper's The Dry or some Peter Temple novels, The Truth or The Broken Shore. While not exactly mysteries, I really want to read some of Alan Furst's historical spy thrillers.
  9. I've been tempted to try out Fred Vargas and Louise Penny due to the settings. Been looking for a good Australian mystery/crime thriller too.
  10. Visually, it was fantastic (I could actually see this battle.) And, of course, Cleganebowll!!!!!!
  11. I do appreciate how long Sansa was able to keep Jon's secret, though, telling the first person she ran into
  12. Feels like a return to the real story after that whole white walker digression. A rather boring return to the real story.
  13. Thanks for the review, Wert. I'm eager to jump back into a GGK novel and this sounds great. Regarding your spoiler:
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