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A few books
Mar. 14th, 2022 05:00 amSo thanks to reality being *gestures, at a lot*
I have read A Few Books lately, just cover to cover at once sometimes.
So I read 3 books by Seanan McGuire, under two names, and one by Becky Chambers.
Becky Chambers' 'The Galaxy and the Ground Within' is a very good book, but my copy is going to have to go back to the shop because 10ish pages fell out.
I loved all the depth packed in about choice and biology and how a multi species society would even work. And the lockdown vibe of everyone in their ships was evocative. I liked it. Packed a lot of politics into a lot of practical everyday moments. Very good. Will reread when I (a) have all the pages in one piece and (b) have read the earlier books over again.
Seanan McGuire as Deborah Baker wrote a book that did what it set out to do but wasn't my sort of thing really. Good, but not for me.
Seanan McGuire in 'Where the Drowned Girls Go' and 'Spelunking through Hell' wrote two books that are very much for me, and I am very glad to have read them.
They're books that the series leads up to and then surprises you. I'm looking forwards to What Happens Next in both 'verses.
But I dont have much to say about any of them, because, you know, A Lot is happening, so mostly I have been trying not to doomscroll.
But the books very capably kept my attention, so, that was skill.
I have read A Few Books lately, just cover to cover at once sometimes.
So I read 3 books by Seanan McGuire, under two names, and one by Becky Chambers.
Becky Chambers' 'The Galaxy and the Ground Within' is a very good book, but my copy is going to have to go back to the shop because 10ish pages fell out.
I loved all the depth packed in about choice and biology and how a multi species society would even work. And the lockdown vibe of everyone in their ships was evocative. I liked it. Packed a lot of politics into a lot of practical everyday moments. Very good. Will reread when I (a) have all the pages in one piece and (b) have read the earlier books over again.
Seanan McGuire as Deborah Baker wrote a book that did what it set out to do but wasn't my sort of thing really. Good, but not for me.
Seanan McGuire in 'Where the Drowned Girls Go' and 'Spelunking through Hell' wrote two books that are very much for me, and I am very glad to have read them.
They're books that the series leads up to and then surprises you. I'm looking forwards to What Happens Next in both 'verses.
But I dont have much to say about any of them, because, you know, A Lot is happening, so mostly I have been trying not to doomscroll.
But the books very capably kept my attention, so, that was skill.