the three body problem

today on a whim i reread The Three Body Problem, by Cixin Liu. it's one of my favorite works of science fiction, so if you like sci-fi, i would recommend it for sure! the original novel is in Chinese; the English translation, which i read, is quite good, from what i can tell. it's the first in a trilogy; the other books are also good (though i have not finished the third yet.)

i'm struggling to describe what i like so much about this book without getting into spoiler territory, but i find it very moving, enough to make me cry.

( SPOILERS for The Three Body Problem )

from what i remember, the second book, The Dark Forest, also made me cry at some point, although i'm more fuzzy as to why. i may give that a reread soon as well.

tuesday again

my brother (who is 14) and i have been in a stalemate for the last few days; i want to get him to play zero escape, and he wants to get me to play (more) ace attorney. (i played the first two AA games last year.) hopefully, we're both going to get what we want, by alternating which games we play. or at least that's what i suggested. today we started by playing the first case of the third Ace Attorney game, Trials and Tribulations. which, you know... tutorial case, so not all that interesting, but it was neat to play as Mia.

and hopefully tomorrow (or the next time we decide to play a story-based game, as opposed to like, smash ultimate) i can get him started on the first zero escape game. he's a danganronpa fan (like me; this is also why i got into ze, because lots of DR people seemed to be into it) so i think he'll enjoy it.

tomorrow i have an eye doctor's appointment at 10, so i have to get up early (for me; since i'm on vacation, i tend to get up at 12 at the earliest, and more often later than that.) & then on thursday, dentist appointment. maybe i can finally get my permanent crown seated...?

school starts for me in one (1) week. this semester i'm taking 4 classes: Japanese (my fourth semester), American Literature, World Literature, & a 'class' that actually means i'll be helping edit my community college's literary magazine.

...though... now i'm looking at my degree plan again and maybe i only need one of those lit classes?? heck. well, i should probably meet with an adviser IRL to make sure i'm set to graduate anyways, i'll just... have to make sure i do that early enough to drop one if i need to. (though if the workload isn't too big, it might be worth taking it anyways.)

in any case, if all goes well at the end of this semester i'll have my associate's in creative writing. and after that... well... i don't know. change is scary, and so are big life decisions.