@Sarah_Bakewell I'm very late to the party but I just wanted to say I just finished and loved At the Existentialist Cafe! Awaiting your next book with much anticipation. :)
Personally didn't find the Witcher timelines difficult to follow, and honestly do not understand this desire to be spoonfed a linear plotline and have all your thinking done for you. If I wanted that I would watch yet another network police procedural or primetime soap...
The eternal struggle: keeping the volume low enough on the cartoons that I don't go insane, vs high enough that my child doesn't give me a look that says "really? Come on mom..."
How my son's memoirs will start: "I was three years old when I started hiding my mother's keys. She was a midwife and worked long unpredictable hours, a state of affairs I found less than satisfactory."
@dowdyism @imyke have you seen this interview with Neil Gaiman talking about his love of fountain pens? The good stuff starts at 14min in: https://t.co/Y856W3vj6C