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I became a beekeeper a little more than a year ago, starting with one colony of package bees. That colony survived the winter in excellent condition, so I split it to make a second colony. One of those swarmed several times, and I caught one of the swarms. So I have three colonies of bees at present...

Thank you for the recommendation.

Autobiography from North Korean defector/survivors sounds like something that might be of interest to my wife. Do you have any recommendations in particular, along those lines?

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I have yet to read anything by that guy that hasn't been stunning. There's a very loose sequel to it that follows the uplift of a planet of octopuses.

Black Leopard Red Wolf is on my to-read list. I'll be interested to hear your impressions, if you make it through.

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It was deliberate. Erikson worked on this in chunks, covering a swath of action that took place with the Bridgeburners, then some stuff that happened simultaneously on a different continent, and then a third set of events that was happening at the same time as the first two, but which is being told ...

That's probably true. I always prefer publication order, though. When an author deliberately uses disordered chronology, I try to treat that decision as an artistic choice and trust the author's judgement.

I really liked The Malazan Book of the Fallen, but clarity isn't a high priority for Steven Erikson. That puts the whole series very solidly into a class of literature that I avoid recommending to people unless I know they like that sort of thing. It's not for everyone. Like, no reasonable person wo...