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The Bar / Re: New Weird
« on: Yesterday at 11:40:26 AM »
Hi Regen!
Meds seem to be doing their job so far.
Yes, sight is a sad warning of getting older but I don't complain because we have so many things that allow us to enlarge the words when we read. I would have been much worse for elder people decades ago.

Aw, cinammon roll Da Vinci  :). I am super happy to read about your mother, your daughter and your cats. And I hope your husband makes a full recovery soon. And yes, there are other virus too!

Sorry about your book being not so excitiing. I had zero time to read, trying to send a paper.

I've seen Christmas markets in Europe and they are lovely. I hope you enjoy yours! I can't believe it's already middle November.

It is going to be a very hot day today. I will make myself stronger to endure it.

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DF Spoilers / Re: Twelve Months, chapter one
« on: Yesterday at 03:42:38 AM »
I agree with all your statements.

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DF Spoilers / Re: Twelve Months, chapter one
« on: November 13, 2025, 11:40:29 AM »
I would like a short story about the cleaning system realizing there was a fire that could not been stopped and making the decision of saving as many small items as they can, knowing that the Za-Lord would appreciate that.  Harry repaid them with pizza and some extra bread and milk or whatever. It's only he had no time to write it in the Files.
BTW, perhaps that tells us when Harry is writing the Files. He would not write them while he has his cleaning service because that would be a risk, what if that is considered telling? He cannot tell anyone about them.

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DF Spoilers / Re: Twelve Months, chapter one
« on: November 08, 2025, 10:08:18 PM »
Yes, of course. His pain and state of mind are well written. I hope. The other option is that Jim's writing is a mess.

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DF Spoilers / Re: Twelve Months, chapter one
« on: November 08, 2025, 09:20:33 AM »
 ;D You may be on the right though, who knows?

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DF Spoilers / Re: Twelve Months, chapter one
« on: November 06, 2025, 11:06:51 PM »
Hi Mira
Well, effectively we disagree in the things you mentioned in your answer to me, but I completely agree with your response to RobReece about the files/journal.

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DF Spoilers / Re: Twelve Months, chapter one
« on: November 06, 2025, 12:25:42 PM »
Mira, I absolutely agree about the grief that Harry is living feeling realistic. I think you are using "reliable" in two different senses. One is, you can relate with the narrator. I totally agree with that. I had terrible grief moments myself. But I think most of us were talking about the term "reliable narrator", in the sense that if you can trust in what Harry told us. When Harry hallucinates, forgets something, and perhaps has been mentally affected, we as readers only have his words to go by. An objective narrator would have told us that Harry was talking alone in the bookstore, but Harry talk us how nice and pretty was Shiela. That is what we were talking about.

LaraBeck. I agree with what you said, but when I mentioned Harry's depression about Susan, I was talking about when she was bitten. Harry told us that he was a mess for a lot of time, but we barely see it on page.

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The Bar / Re: New Weird
« on: November 06, 2025, 12:14:59 PM »
Thank you!

Sorry about your teeth. It is very annoying. I lived the same in the beginning of the pandemics (one a few months before and had the piece removed, the other broke a few months later, already in lockdown, so I waited like a year and had it removed too). It has not happened again, so I hope you don't have to face that again (at least in many years).

Becoming old is not fun.

In the DF spoilers section of this forum is a thread with the link to the chapter. And yes, I think MM will be good too. I have the feeling JB was looking forward to it.

I have to work now, see you later (((((((((Don)))))))))))))

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The Bar / Re: New Weird
« on: November 05, 2025, 11:47:34 AM »
Am I am so thankful you logged!

The 24-hs thing worked and revealed that my diastolic pressure was often high, but not so much the systolic one,  which was...not what I expected. The doctor added another medicine, this time a diuretic one, but in a mild dose, I think. I have to make a new appointment in 2 weeks. I had not checked my pressure since then.

JB began writing Mirror Mirror! In his official page it says he is 14%. Also, there is a Twelve Months' first chapter sample somewhere. I read it. This is going to be a difficult book to read. 

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DF Spoilers / Re: List your top 5 Dresden files books
« on: November 05, 2025, 03:02:42 AM »
My top five also changes with my mood, but in general:

1. Turncoat
2. Skin Game
3. Small Favor
4. Summer Knight
5. Dead Beat
Bonus
Probably BG

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DF Spoilers / Re: Twelve Months, chapter one
« on: November 05, 2025, 02:58:42 AM »
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I think some readers tend to forget that all of these books are technically Harry's Journals. He wrote them. So therefore there are going to be issues like this, especially someone who is impacted by this much trauma.
Additionally, it feeds into an ongoing theory that Harry is not a reliable narrator. This is something that pops up every now and again.
I also feel like the books are getting closer to (Harry's) present time. The early books often read like they are furtner in the past, while as we creep close the end, they feel more "current".
Just one mans opinion.

That is the point. Harry is not a reliable narrator. We know that, at least since Shiela, his fire spells and, well, who hired the killer in Changes. But it is not always so clear when he is writing the files. He has been distressed before, but we had not seen him in writing. Like, we know when Susan happened he was a mess. He told us so. But his actual words were tidier and clearer than now.

BTW, Jim is already writing Mirror Mirror and I am happy to hear that, as I hope it is a funnier book. We know is necessary for Harry to live through the twelve months, but being with him won't be easy.

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DF Spoilers / Re: Twelve Months, chapter one
« on: November 02, 2025, 08:12:11 PM »
It sounds like this will be a painful book to read... but I'm too much of an addict to let it pass me by.

I agree, of course I will read it. But I think it will be difficult.
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DF Spoilers / Re: Twelve Months, chapter one
« on: November 01, 2025, 07:24:43 PM »
Ugh, GS is one of the books I don't like as much.

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DF Spoilers / Re: Twelve Months, chapter one
« on: November 01, 2025, 07:50:19 AM »
The link that RobReece put in the first post worked for me.

Well, this is more or less what I expected. Something to have the ball start running.
Specifics:
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Robreece
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The rest I frankly do not remember.


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The Bar / Re: New Weird
« on: October 30, 2025, 12:27:10 PM »
I link to another post of mine because I think you can find it interesting but perhaps Weird people does not wander for all the threads in the forum.
https://www.paranetonline.com/index.php/topic,55267.0.html

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