Scalzi's Redshirts was a lot of fun.

However, his version of Little Fuzzy made me angry. That series was a favorite of mine as a young teen, and he changed the protagonist from someone I wanted on my side, or on who's team I wanted to be, to someone I wouldn't want to be on the same planet with, while hoping he might never even learn I existed. It was different, and clever, and well-written, and I didn't like it at all.

I don't like audio books, so the characters and narration sound like I want them to. It may make some hard copy books more palatable.

David Duchovny wrote a pandemic novella, too,

I'm sure they weren't the only ones to break through pandemic writer's block by just giving up and writing a completely different book that year!

Not books, but Fall Out Boy and Pink both released blatantly influenced-by-the-pandemic albums.

However, his version of Little Fuzzy made me angry.

Oh, that might be why I wasn't reading him! I didn't read his version, but I looked at the summary and wasn't happy about it. Not that I remember the Fuzzy books all that well from when I read them but it didn't sound right at all.

I'm sure they weren't the only ones to break through pandemic writer's block by just giving up and writing a completely different book that year!

This will make someone a good doctoral thesis, right? How long do you have to wait for it to be properly academic, I wonder

Also, adding Gentle Art of Fortune Hunting to my queue. I keep getting ready to start reading KJ Charles and then getting overwhelmed with all the choices and reading something else, but I am making the decision now that that one I will read soonish

This will make someone a good doctoral thesis, right? How long do you have to wait for it to be properly academic, I wonde

Absolutely. Either comparing the various books or comparing to an authors other books or comparing to previous plague books like the Decameron…

And Principia Mathematica or whatever Newton wrote during his plague, I suppose

Also, adding Gentle Art of Fortune Hunting to my queue. I keep getting ready to start reading KJ Charles and then getting overwhelmed with all the choices and reading something else, but I am making the decision now that that one I will read soonish

That one is so good. There are several GAoFH Easter Eggs in The Gentlemen's Guide to Seducing a Scoundrel. Oh, and also, Wanted: A Gentlemen (which I cannot recommend enough).

Has anyone read Hench? I own it but haven't gotten to it, in the Evil Villain Genre.

I'm currently listening to The Keeper's Six and can say, I am loving these older, badass protagonist ladies.

GAoFH wasn't my favorite of hers, and since it is October I will recommend the Magpie Lord books as an appropriately spooky starting point.