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**low pick** review here: https://debbybrauer.org/#company-town

There were moments I came close to giving up. If I had a trigger, it would be nuclear or radiation and there was a nuclear reactor that played a huge part in the futuristic story. A lot of stuff was happening. Sex workers were being killed in very gruesome ways and even Whitechapel made a visit in an immersion booth (that was pretty cool). If you like AI stories, you may like this one. It was not boring in the least, but I just can't pick it.

I tried to fly through this to return it for #lmpbc. I will mail it out this week. Thanks for sharing this one. Not my normal genre, but interesting.

Finishing this today for #lpmbc! It‘s weird but I ended up liking it!

I finished this #LMPBC #groupw book last night. I spent a fair amount of time confused but once I got into it, I really enjoyed it! @phatsallylee @Victoriahoperose @Kappadeemom I‘m planning to get this in the mail soon. I have not figured out how to set up the postage online so I may end up at the post office. 😷

@phatsallylee I got the #lmpbc book you sent along with your sweet card! To answer your question, we were supposed to get married yesterday but ended up moving our wedding to October. 🤷🏻‍♀️ Looking forward to reading this one! @Kappadeemom @Victoriahoperose

#bookreport

Graphic Novel Week! I read Volume 2 to 6 of Paper Girls. It was my series for the month and I was determined to get it done. I read Giant Days Volume 12. Caught up in that series for now! Then, I read Lumberjanes Volume 1 to 3.

The only novel I finished was Company Town.

I am currently reading A Lesson in Secrets and Starsight (audio).

(Picture is my Disco Dog. lol)

#weekendreads @rachelsbrittain

1. Starsight by Brandon Sanderson (audio), Company Town by Madeline Ashby, and Lesson in Secrets by Jacqueline Winspear.
2. The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep. But the Paper Girls series by Brian K. Vaughan is also a great series overall.
3. Beat up books. I do buy used so it happens, but I try not to crack my spines or bend pages. Sometimes books come in the mail already bent and it drives me nuts.

#weeklyforecast

I picked Company Town in Bookopoly. I need to finish A Lesson in Secrets. I have Volume 12 of Giant Days. And, I want to finish my read through of Paper Girls.

On the audio front, I have Starsight by Brandon Sanderson loaded and ready.

For the second time this weekend, I feel very WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED IN THE FINAL SECTION OF THE BOOK? What? The? Hell? Happened? How was *that* the bad guy? How did [people] survive [thing]? What the hell with the elevator shaft? WHAT THE HELL WITH THE WHITE ROOM? Was this all a dream? This is WILD. But good! But I am really glad we‘ve got a book group session so I can talk about it with other people.

Starting this one for my #sciencefiction book group. Dystopian future where towns are owned by, uh, companies (this town is a former oil rig, and the company is building a nuclear reactor beneath it, and that is most of the plot info I have so far). Protagonist is a kickass young woman with a birth defect, an attitude, and a lot of street smarts.

5 ⭐️s! I really enjoyed this book! I loved the protagonist and the setting and the author‘s idea of a bioengineered future. Reading it has made me want to read more science fiction. Would definitely recommend! #january2019 #canadareads #readthenorth

Went to the bookstore and bought some books! 😀 I‘m not one to have a towering TBR pile. Having too many unread books around makes me anxious about not getting them read. 🤷‍♀️ But I added to it anyway.

I‘m such a slow reader! And I have a feeling this one is going to take me a bit longer to get through, but still enjoying it. Also, the conversations going on around me are super distracting. But very interesting! 😂 #eavesdropping #thethingsyoulearn

Bought this read at a book sale last summer. It‘s totally outside my comfort zone which is why it‘s taken me awhile to attempt it. But I‘m really enjoying it, even though it took me a bit to settle into her writing style. #january2019 #tookachanceon #canadareads

Work day 16 of 16 and all I can think about is bedtime. But first kids‘ dentist and late night at work. Ugh. The silver lining is someone gave me this book and said it sounded like my thing. I‘m going in!

I was sold on this book yesterday saving the last part, November, for today. And unfortunately the spell was broken. The tie together is neat but a bit too neat without any previous threads to provide clues to the mystery that is built. Ashby brings in too much, too late- inter-dimensionality is just over the top and unnecessary. That said this is almost a “pick”, but, and I rarely believe this about a book, it could have used more story.

Enjoying this super read! Been a while since I‘ve spent all day reading a book... well at least a good week or two...

Lightyear, by Didrik Hallstrøm is a short piece of #scifi touching on climate change, interstellar travel and mental health. It isn't perfect, and I have questions, but it's by far the best Norwegian-language sci-fi I've read in a long time.

(How do I add books that aren't in the database? Added another book to post this.)

I really liked this story which was part about a woman who acts as a body guard and part mystery. Really cool and unique setting.

This book hooked me from the start. Hwa works as a bodyguard in a town that has just come under new ownership. She is one of the few residents without augmentation, a fact that leads to a job opportunity with the new owners. This dark, fascinating story took twists and turns I did not see coming, and I will be thinking about that wild conclusion for a long time.

In honor of Canada Day Saturday and thanks to @Jenshootsweddings , I read this gem. Picked as one of Canada Reads, this is one to not judge a book by its cover. This is about espionage, murder, fighting, and a plot to kill a wealthy heir. In a world filled with augmented people, Hwa is unique because she has no augs. What a great action filled book. I liked it better than this year's CR winner- Fifteen Dogs

A finalist for Canada Reads, this book set in a world of enhancements and body modifications follows Hwa, a young woman with an ugly birthmark and no enhancements, who makes her living as a bodyguard to sex workers. When she's hired to protect the heir of the family who owns the town she lives in, sex workers start dying. A great SF murder mystery.

I REALLY wanted to be able to give this book a pick. I loved the first 3/4 of the book. But then it kind of went off the rails for me. I found myself dissatisfied with the ending, a rather deus-ex-machina-esque conclusion to what had been an interesting story. I think it deserved more. 😔

Hubby and kidlets all feeling a bit under the weather and in bed early. So it's the perfect time to start a new read. Now for the tough decision: beer or wine?

#currentlyreading

So Madeline Ashby is a Canadian writer and futurist. I don't know what being a career futurist entails exactly, but there were a lot of really interesting ideas in this science fiction/mystery. Nano-machines and programmable tissue...There was also a bad-ass female protagonist. As a mystery, however, not so much. So many loose ends and red herrings and a beyond-implausible ending. #sciencefiction #canadianauthors #yourmysteryneedswork

What are you reading right now? I'm reading a book set way in the future while my bf watches a show set hundreds of years in the past. 📚❤️ #readathon - @Liberty

Loved this! I can't wait to read it again.

My reading view #bathandbooks

What should I read next?!??

#aprilbookshowers Muscles. The main character in this story Hwa is a body guard. She is strong and knows how to work her muscles!

My Book Outlet order arrived 🎉🎉😂😂

Company Town.... Ugh! Is it me? Not getting it. Please tell me why you liked this book.

I had a hard time caring about pretty much any character in Company Town, and felt that the SCI behind the FI was poorly explained, or not at all. A really intriguing premise that fell entirely flat for me, sadly I have to give it a thumbs down.

Possible #AprilTBR plus

Love that Company Town is still in the running for CBC's Canada Reads! #canadareads #canadianauthor #scifi #breakfastread

I'm starting with Company Town for #canadareads. Excuse the gratuitous knitting shot. I love this contest and look forward to it every year...next up is The Break. #iamcanadian #booknerd #knittersoflitsy

Let's go #canadareads ! Contenders are Company Town, The Break, Fifteen Dogs, The Right to be Cold, and Nostalgia

Guess who? 🤔🤣 #currentlyreading #CanadaReads2017

I finally have it in my hands! It's 5/5 for #CanadaReads. #currentlyreading

This means for the FIRST TIME EVER I'll be able to read all of the contenders for #CanadaReads. 😀 #libraryforthewin

#whyistherenoredfortextcolours ??🖍🤔

Just picked my fifth round of our #tenatatime tbr project! When you have this many stacks of unread books, this really keeps you focused.

An interesting concept, but not the best execution. This book suffered from an identity crisis, but I didn't enjoy some of its social commentary.

Full review: https://reneereadsbooks.wordpress.com/2017/03/08/book-review-canada-reads-2-comp...

Very interesting protagonist- and the premise of bio-engineering, urban development and AI is spell binding. Near future sci-fi kind of thing. Page turner - ending a bit much but well worth the read

Getting a head start on the #CanadaReads 2017 short list.

It's time I got back
It's time I got back
And I don't even know how I got off the track