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Finished Strong Poison.

Just finished Foundation and Earth. Quite the romp.

Just finished Foundation’s Edge. Written 30 years after the original Foundation Trilogy, Asimov’s greater writing experience shows. Much better written. You’ll still never get poetic descriptions from Asimov, but the timespan is cut down so that some actual characters emerge.

Finished Second Foundation. So far this has been a reread of the original trilogy which I speed read in one weekend in 1970 while I was moving out of the commune on Evans Street in Dorchester to an apartment on Corbett Street, about a block away, soon after my father died.
As might be expected with a story that spans thousands of years, it’s plot driven rather than character driven.

Finished reading James Tiptree's The Girl Who Was Plugged In.
A little cringey at best. It suffers in places because Tiptree makes use of an extended metaphor comparing characters in the story to characters in William Henry Hudson's book Green Mansions published in 1904. At this point the allusion is a little dated and apt to be lost on most readers.

Finished Cup of Gold In another edition. Read Introduction to The Red Pony.