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kitewithfish) wrote2023-10-25 04:44 pm
kitewithfish) wrote2023-10-25 04:44 pm
Wednesday Reading Meme - October 25, 2023
What I’ve Read:
Murderbot 2-5, in anticipation of Martha Wells’s newest addition to the series. The audiobooks narrated by Kevin R. Free are just great – they really give the books intonation and depth that adds something to the re-read process. This is my third time thru the series and I really adored them.
I will say, Network Effect, the fifth entry and the first full length novel, does have a different tempo – there’s more time and space to flesh things out, and to establish who Murderbot has become. I will say, I feel like the end came together a bit fast – really good and interesting conclusions and discoveries but I could totally spend another book with the people we meet in the last third of Network Effect. (Heck, maybe we will!)
It’s been a great year to be reading Martha Wells’s work.
What I’m Reading:
Fugitive Telemetry – Murderbot Diaries #6 – about halfway thru. It falls chronologically before Network Effect and it SHOWS – Murderbot is just uncomfortable in a way that is less about choosing to be different than people expect it to be, and more because it is actually uncomfortable.
What I’ll Read Next:
I need to finish The Last Binding re-read before the final book in the trilogy comes out, but I’m low on eyeball energy bc of the day job and the knitting I’ve picked back up. We’ll see what I can do!
House of Leaves – The Discord book group has picked this to read next! We’ll see how it goes!
Murderbot Diaries2 for Xing Book club
City of Blades – Robert Jackson Bennett Xing Book Club
Hugos Lingerers – Stuff I haven’t gotten to yet!
“The Difference Between Love and Time” Catherynne M. Valente (Someone in Time: Tales of Time-Crossed
“A Dream of Electric Mothers” Wole Talabi (Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction
“Resurrection” Ren Qing (Future Fiction/Science Fiction World
“The Ghost of Workshops Past” S.L. Huang (Tordotcom)
“D.I.Y.” John Wiswell
Owned and need to read: California Bones, Raven Song by IA Ashcroft, Kraken's Sacrifice by Katee Robert, At The Feet of the Sun by Victoria Goddard, Tamryn Eradani's Enchanting Encounters Books 2 and 3, Tom Stoppard, Invention of love, "You Just Need to Lose Weight" and Other Myths about Fatness by Aubrey Gordon, Alisha Rai Partners in Crime, the Right Swipe, Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle
Murderbot 2-5, in anticipation of Martha Wells’s newest addition to the series. The audiobooks narrated by Kevin R. Free are just great – they really give the books intonation and depth that adds something to the re-read process. This is my third time thru the series and I really adored them.
I will say, Network Effect, the fifth entry and the first full length novel, does have a different tempo – there’s more time and space to flesh things out, and to establish who Murderbot has become. I will say, I feel like the end came together a bit fast – really good and interesting conclusions and discoveries but I could totally spend another book with the people we meet in the last third of Network Effect. (Heck, maybe we will!)
It’s been a great year to be reading Martha Wells’s work.
What I’m Reading:
Fugitive Telemetry – Murderbot Diaries #6 – about halfway thru. It falls chronologically before Network Effect and it SHOWS – Murderbot is just uncomfortable in a way that is less about choosing to be different than people expect it to be, and more because it is actually uncomfortable.
What I’ll Read Next:
I need to finish The Last Binding re-read before the final book in the trilogy comes out, but I’m low on eyeball energy bc of the day job and the knitting I’ve picked back up. We’ll see what I can do!
House of Leaves – The Discord book group has picked this to read next! We’ll see how it goes!
Murderbot Diaries2 for Xing Book club
City of Blades – Robert Jackson Bennett Xing Book Club
Hugos Lingerers – Stuff I haven’t gotten to yet!
“The Difference Between Love and Time” Catherynne M. Valente (Someone in Time: Tales of Time-Crossed
“A Dream of Electric Mothers” Wole Talabi (Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction
“Resurrection” Ren Qing (Future Fiction/Science Fiction World
“The Ghost of Workshops Past” S.L. Huang (Tordotcom)
“D.I.Y.” John Wiswell
Owned and need to read: California Bones, Raven Song by IA Ashcroft, Kraken's Sacrifice by Katee Robert, At The Feet of the Sun by Victoria Goddard, Tamryn Eradani's Enchanting Encounters Books 2 and 3, Tom Stoppard, Invention of love, "You Just Need to Lose Weight" and Other Myths about Fatness by Aubrey Gordon, Alisha Rai Partners in Crime, the Right Swipe, Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle