Listening to Terry Pratchett's "Equal Rites" audiobook for the first time (have read most all of the Discworld books and now re-experiencing in audio form).

Only... the lead character Eskarina is referred to as Esk, and every time it hears it my brain tries to map it to One Esk Nineteen, which is a... very different character on so many levels from a very different universe.

Though... I think Breq would like Granny Weatherwax, particularly her definition of sin.

#discworld #radch

I figured out how to summarize a discussion we had a while back

I prefer the #Radch to the #Culture because the Radch has culture.

that is, both are massive imperial societies with a complacent core and an expanding, appropriative edge. But in the Radch, there's still a sense that people believe in something, or at least have forgotten that the soap operas repeat every millennium or so.