I'm glad that The Dangerous Summer is more novella than novel: it's just as long as it needs to be and no longer. (James Michener's introduction tells us that Hemingway originally wrote some 120,000 words, which were cut to 70,000 for publication in Life magazine in 1960; the published version which I read is 45,000 words.
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Michener's introduction is interesting in its own right. Among other things, he makes it clear that we should go into the book expecting Hemingway to be partial to Antonio Ordóñez over his brother-in-law and rival, Luis Miguel Dominguín. It's possible to read the book against that interpretation, but I think Michener's reading holds up.
The Ability Scores section of the character sheet now contains an attack roll calculator. If you enter an adjusted attack roll, the calculator displays what AC you hit given your current THAC0. (#195)
In the Identity section of the character sheet, next to your current XP and the XP required for your next level, you now also see the difference of those values, i.e. remaining XP to the next level. (#199)
User Interface
Tables and other wide UI elements no longer run off-screen at narrow screen widths. (#34, #201)
Text labels in the Identity section of the site are shorter to better suit narrow screens.
Anchorwick is written in a deliberately old-fashioned style (that of the early 20th century, perhaps) and it feels very English, as in England. The best compliment I can pay the author is that, despite the book having been published in 2007, the writing feels authentically old throughout. Unfortunately, he also imitates the wordiness of his inspirations: the narrator goes on a few too many paragraph-long digressions about the contents of a room, or the way someone dresses or behaves.
The plot is interesting but not intriguing, and it's too thin for the length of the book and for the slowness with which new information drips out between the cracks of overwritten sentences.
You can now create and manage real estate: parcels of land and buildings alike. Most importantly, you can move items to parcels/buildings.
Zingor now has an importer for Alexis Smolensk's trade table spreadsheets, which contain weights, prices, sale units, descriptions, and other aspects of player-purchasable tradegoods.
User Interface
The navbar now sticks to the top of the page as you scroll down, allowing access to it without having to go scroll all the way up.
Various links and buttons have had their heights and shapes standardized.
For small screen widths, including mobile devices, the navbar now condenses down to a fold-out menu.
This osprey was hovering above the Yellowstone River in southern Montana, looking for something to catch. Although the picture isn't perfectly focused, I like the bird's pose.
