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Scalzi is one of the authors that I\u00a0 automatically read.\u00a0 It’s not spoiling anything to say that the premise of the book is that Earth’s Moon is suddenly turned into…cheese.\u00a0 I will note that at the end of this post I will have a fairly large spoiler, so don’t read the last paragraph if you haven’t already read the book.<\/p>\n
I read the book fairly quickly, and didn’t realize that each chapter was a day in the cheese-lunar cycle although the chapter headings should have been the clear tip-off.\u00a0 I was more concerned with tracking the various characters and situations described.\u00a0 If you like the patented Scalzi Snark, there’s no shortage of it in this book.<\/p>\n
About the various characters–there are many to like, and a couple to despise. Surprisingly, even for something taking place over such a short time, there are some wonderful character arcs.<\/p>\n
SPOILER ALERT:<\/strong><\/p>\n I mean it.<\/p>\n Really, gonna just talk about the end here.<\/p>\n Nah-Nah-Nah-Nah-Nah-Nah-Nah-Nah<\/p>\n OK, if you scrolled this far, you meant to, so here’s my last bit of commentary.\u00a0 More than any Scalzi book in recent memory, this book’s end disappointed me.\u00a0 I suppose it should be viewed as a modern fable, but the moon reverting (or coming back) to its normal state felt hugely disappointing to me coming without an explanation.<\/p>\n I will say that the story of the men in the diner, and the has-been rocker and his ex-wife are wonderful writing and worth the telling.\u00a0 Also, the advice to the young writer given at a workshop seemed pulled from experience and I wasn’t surprised to read about its origins in the Afterward.<\/p>\n I will be curious to read other reviews and interviews about this book to see if others were reading in\u00a0 more levels to it than I saw.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Scalzi is one of the authors that I\u00a0 automatically read.\u00a0 It’s not spoiling anything to say that the premise of the book is that Earth’s Moon is suddenly turned into…cheese.\u00a0 I will note that at the end of this post I will have a fairly large spoiler, so don’t read the last paragraph if you … Continue reading “When the Moon Hits your Eye<\/i> by John Scalzi (2025)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[30],"class_list":["post-378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-short-take","tag-book"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=378"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":381,"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378\/revisions\/381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}