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osprey_archer) wrote2021-04-14 07:44 am
osprey_archer) wrote2021-04-14 07:44 am
Wednesday Reading Meme
What I’ve Just Finished Reading
I am deeply annoyed to inform you that I loved Martha Wells’ All Systems Red just as much as everyone told me I would. I’ve already finished Artificial Condition, I’m reading Rogue Protocol, and I’ve got Exit Strategy on deck. I hope you are all VERY proud of yourselves.
Murderbot ended up rather overshadowing the other space book I read this week, Becky Chambers’ To Be Taught, If Fortunate. This is not really fair, as they are such different types of space book that except for the fact that I read them back to back, I probably wouldn’t have compared them. Murderbot is a shot directly to the feels; To Be Taught, If Fortunate is a quiet, meditative book about space exploration, with professional and mostly emotionally balanced scientist protagonists who eagerly log the strange and lovely life forms of the solar system they are exploring.
Ever sincechantefable posted a link to the Youtube channel “How to Cook the Victorian Way” I have been a devotee, so when I saw that there was a book version, How to Cook the Victorian Way with Mrs. Crocombe, I gobbled it right up. None of these recipes are ones I would cook myself (well, maybe some of the biscuits?), but the book is chock full of interesting tidbits about Victorian cookery, so well worth a read.
AND FINALLY (these are all pretty short books, so there are a lot of them) I zoomed through the latest Baby-sitters Club graphic novel, Claudia and the New Girl, which is based on my favorite Baby-sitters Club book and as such almost inevitably couldn’t quite live up to its source material… but I’m so glad that these graphic novel adaptations exist to introduce the Baby-sitters Club to a new generation.
What I’m Reading Now
As aforementioned, the third Murderbot novella, Rogue Protocol. I kind of love Miki, the world’s most enthusiastically perky robot, and even more I love watching Murderbot go OH GOD STOP.
Also continuing my Newbery Honor project with Walter Dean Myers’ Somewhere in the Darkness from 1993. Myers has a sort of Hemingwayvian telegraphic style that I don’t find very appealing, but the book is at least pretty short.
What I Plan to Read Next
If I can wrench myself away from Murderbot for a bit, I’d really like to read Kikuko Tsumura’s There’s No Such Thing as an Easy Job, so the five people who have it on hold after me can get a crack at it.
I am deeply annoyed to inform you that I loved Martha Wells’ All Systems Red just as much as everyone told me I would. I’ve already finished Artificial Condition, I’m reading Rogue Protocol, and I’ve got Exit Strategy on deck. I hope you are all VERY proud of yourselves.
Murderbot ended up rather overshadowing the other space book I read this week, Becky Chambers’ To Be Taught, If Fortunate. This is not really fair, as they are such different types of space book that except for the fact that I read them back to back, I probably wouldn’t have compared them. Murderbot is a shot directly to the feels; To Be Taught, If Fortunate is a quiet, meditative book about space exploration, with professional and mostly emotionally balanced scientist protagonists who eagerly log the strange and lovely life forms of the solar system they are exploring.
Ever since
chantefable posted a link to the Youtube channel “How to Cook the Victorian Way” I have been a devotee, so when I saw that there was a book version, How to Cook the Victorian Way with Mrs. Crocombe, I gobbled it right up. None of these recipes are ones I would cook myself (well, maybe some of the biscuits?), but the book is chock full of interesting tidbits about Victorian cookery, so well worth a read. AND FINALLY (these are all pretty short books, so there are a lot of them) I zoomed through the latest Baby-sitters Club graphic novel, Claudia and the New Girl, which is based on my favorite Baby-sitters Club book and as such almost inevitably couldn’t quite live up to its source material… but I’m so glad that these graphic novel adaptations exist to introduce the Baby-sitters Club to a new generation.
What I’m Reading Now
As aforementioned, the third Murderbot novella, Rogue Protocol. I kind of love Miki, the world’s most enthusiastically perky robot, and even more I love watching Murderbot go OH GOD STOP.
Also continuing my Newbery Honor project with Walter Dean Myers’ Somewhere in the Darkness from 1993. Myers has a sort of Hemingwayvian telegraphic style that I don’t find very appealing, but the book is at least pretty short.
What I Plan to Read Next
If I can wrench myself away from Murderbot for a bit, I’d really like to read Kikuko Tsumura’s There’s No Such Thing as an Easy Job, so the five people who have it on hold after me can get a crack at it.
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Welcome to the Corporate Rim, baby! Oh the fanfics that can be written!
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"I am deeply annoyed to inform you that I loved Martha Wells’ All Systems Red just as much as everyone told me I would."
Hurrah, that is excellent news, and also you being annoyed is exactly appropriate for this series :-P
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If you don't object to e-books, you might be interested to sign up for Tor's mailing list. It's not spammy and there's a free book to download every month. *cough* As a promo before the Murderbot novel came out subscribers could get all the novellas for free.
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Also, Claudia and the New Girl was exactly the Babysitters book I was thinking of in your girl crush post the other day! It's been so long I couldn't remember the title, but yessss, all those rapturious descriptions of Ashley's style. I might try and check out the new graphic novels myself. Just glancing at the covers, they look adorable.
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