Thanks! Probably; I've been thinking about it for a while but never seem to get my act together on the alliterative days or their weekend alternates. I'm figuring I'll go for Mondays.

Yeah, so far Legend and I are having a rocky but not entirely unsuccessful start. I'm allergic to instalove, which isn't helping.

Dodger is sweet and cute and absolutely chock-full of cameos from various famous Victorian figures. It's not suspenseful--it's entirely clear from the first scene that Dodger will achieve all--but it's fun watching him stumble into serendipitous good-fortune. It reminds me a lot of vintage children's stories--Cheaper By The Dozen or Enchanted Castle or Story Girl or something.

It's very different than a typical Pratchett book, even when contrasted with Amazing Maurice or the Wee Free Men. It's got footnotes, but far less incisive wordplay. The humour and plot are softer around the edges, I think. It's a gentler story than I expected.

See, now I definitely want to read Dodger, that sounds good! Legend got better for me. I started it a couple times before I stuck with it, had the same problem. But it picked up. I'm playing around with how I read this year, trying to figure out the method I enjoy most. So I'm going to start to read completed series in their entirety instead of spacing them out . For example, I remember Legend and now want to finish the series but am afraid I forgot things. May have to reread.

I think it might be, although it depends how much pop data science you get through. It's a bit heavier on the rhetoric and anecdotes than hard science, but the core idea--that the accepted ideas of today have measurable half-lives-- is great.