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I've been watching The Handmaid's Tale, and recently noticed it at the Black Friday sale on a bookstore. The story is very well known by now and happens in a dystopian version of our world where fertility rates kept dropping, and a extremist religious group takes over the US and starts calling itself Gilead. It is told by a Handmaid - a fertile woman who is forced to reproduce for commanders who want to have children. The story is on most occasions very similar to the series. Obviously the series has a whole lot more room than a single book, so some things change such as more characters, some have more depth, and some who die or disappear have continuing stories in the series. So the book is good, but that is one of those super rare cases where the TV version is actually better than the book. Still, pretty entertaining and if I had not seen the series I would just be saying that the book was very good.

I recently finished (a couple of times) Sniper Elite 4, and I loved it. So when Sniper Elite 3 went on sale, I decided to try it out. So far it is pretty good, although of course graphics are quite inferior, and look their age. There are also many small changes in 4 that were clever, such as being able to see the stats of guns before you switch in the field. A few things seem nice, such as the number of unlocks you get along the way, including various weapons and weapons parts, as well as having actual weapons that are much better than the first one. Overall, very much worth it at sales prices.

Uncompromising Honor is the latest book in the Honorverse series. It is supposed to be the last Honor Harrington book, which is sad to think about, as I've been reading these for over 20 years (the series is 25 years old!). This felt like it could easily be a couple of books. Personally I would have preferred it that way - it's been 5 years since the last Honor book and I have forgotten many details about what was last happening. As it last ended, the Grand Alliance is at war with the Sollies, after a vicious attack by them to Manticore that utterly failed because of the Sollies' inferior tech. Still, because of the Mesan Alignment simultaneous attack, there was massive destruction in the system. As usual, there are changes in the tech all around. There are many battles, described in what I think are David Webber's pretty weird way (which work very well) and oh so many interludes everywhere breaking up the action, with the maneuvers in the Solly, Mesan and other...