Kingdom of the Blind (Chief Inspector Gamache)

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The mounting evidence of ever more and ever worse skulduggery will pull Tempe deeper and deeper down what even she sees as a rabbit hole before she confronts a ringleader implicated in “Drugs. What other passages about snow are particularly striking, and how does the weather affect the story? She leaves behind no memories worth keeping: her husband is dead, her boss has made no bones about disliking her, and she’s looking forward to new responsibilities and the higher salary underwritten by North Dakota’s sudden oil boom.

In the last couple of years, a number of big complex systems had, like BHP DMS, gotten buggy and weird and had started crashing in inexplicable ways. But I ran a raw compilation of what was in the Seattle database, and compared it to what DMS is reporting.A couple of hours later, Sydney dug out the Wired magazine with the interview with the guy from MIT who thought some systems had become aware.

I was particularly excited to hear you raving about Louise Penny, who I had the pleasure of seeing at a local author night just last week, a few days after her most recent book was released.Although the middle bogged down a bit, the ending was tension filled and contained a couple of plot twists (one of which I predicted).