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Cake day: June 14th, 2023

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  • Not an expert, but when I have tried to fix this, i ended up having to pull up the floor and use an underlayment pad for wood subfloor or self leveling floor compound for concrete floors to minimize height differences. Depending on the type of laminate and how it was installed you might be able to put it back in. Hopefully it was floating and/or snap and lock, not glued or nailed in place.





  • Imperial Radch trilogy - Ann Leckie

    • Ancillary Justice
    • Ancillary Sword
    • Ancillary Mercy

    Great read even if the first chapter was a slow burn for me and took a second to get into. Once I was into the story and the main characters concept made sense I devoured the rest of the book. Its a wonderful and imaginative universe with strong social structures, military organization, and not everything is explained. Aspects of the universe and worlds are left fully to the reader to fill in and color as they see fit and aspects are simply assumed knowledge even if its impossible knowledge.

    Red Rising - Pierce Brown

    • Red Rising
    • Golden Son
    • Morning Star

    I just finished the first book Red Rising on Saturday, and loved it. I enjoyed it so much it was a 2 day read for me as I started the book on Friday, and was done by Saturday evening. I am looking forward to the following books in the trilogy as well as the rest in the universe. I had no idea what I was reading into when I picked it up, I only recalled hearing something about it on a pod cast or some youtube video and stuck a note in the back of my head that I should check it out. I ended up at the bookstore on Friday since I had a 2 hour weight for urgent care and figured why the hell not, take a risk. So glad I did.

    Expanse - Daniel Abraham & Ty Franck (James S. A. Corey)

    • Leviathan Wakes
    • Caliban’s War
    • Abaddon’s Gate
    • Cibola Burn
    • Nemesis Games
    • Babylon’s Ashes
    • Persepolis Rising
    • Tiamat’s Wrath
    • Leviathan Falls

    Obviously I am not alone as several others have mentioned this series. Its simply great, the show was amazing and I cant wait until its been a few years and I can read them again and live the universe all over again. I suspect that like Foundation or Dune, The Expanse will be on my every 10-15y re-read cycle.

    Remembrance of Earth’s Past - Liu Cixin

    • The Three-Body Problem
    • The Dark Forest
    • Death’s End

    Read the books, ignore the Netflix show. Reading science fiction from another culture is so refreshing sometimes. While the political world of this series is heavily influenced by the PRC and its “Communist” party the rest of the story is fantastic. It has some of the best and most spellbinding space combat ever written, some very original concepts, and goes places in the story that as a western audience I was just not used to. Its a dense read so its not for everyone but its a fantastic book club or friendly discussion book. I read it with my Father, Step Mother, and Brother and all of us enjoyed conversations and discussions related to the books.

    Between Earth and Sky - Rebecca Roanhorse

    • Black Sun
    • Fevered Star
    • Mirrored Heavens

    Like Three Body Problem, Roanhorse offers science fiction and fantasy from a different culture but this one is based on Native American lore and history imagined into a European free future. I have yet to read the 3rd book but I am excited to do so this year as the previous 2 were simply fantastic. I do caution that if you have issues with “woke” then these stories might not be for you as concepts of gender and sexuality are far more fluid as they were in these tribal cultures. Pronouns are important in this series and do not always define sexual or reproductive gender. Relationships, similarly, do not recognize traditional European roles so if either of these concepts make you uncomfortable I would skip this series. That said, I find that they do not take away but rather strongly add to the overall story and freshness that is immuring yourself in a fictional “what if” world of native technology and spiritualism.