Finished The Novice by Trudi Canavan. The second book in The Black Magician trilogy.
Found the second half to be more interesting than the first half, but that is probably just me.
Started Carl’s Doomsday Scenario by Matt Dinniman, book 2 of Dungeon Crawler Carl.
What about all of you? What have you all been reading or listening to lately?
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Currently on the 14th day of reading Why Nations Fail. All the stories of absolutism and the people involved in it were chilling, and the fact that society is not guaranted to go on a straight line of improvement, and that there are people who have incentives to fuck up society for their benefit.
Also, I used to always hear the term “creative destruction” applied to working class people, but in fact creative destruction can also apply to the elites, it is only that they have the resources to suppress it, such as with Fossil Fuels with the adoption of renewable energy, Car companies with public transportation infrastructure, and of course they have their own financial safety net.