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#WeeklyForecast

Have Sonia and Sonny cued up for a listening opportunity. Will likely finish Death and make progress in Red Sky today now that chores are done. I‘m liking the tagged so far for #TOB2026. Caught up with buddy reads.

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Across the Universe follows Amy, who‘s awakened from cryosleep fifty years early aboard the ship Godspeed. She connects with Elder, next in line to lead the ship‘s society, and together they uncover who‘s targeting the other frozen passengers—and the lies running the ship. It starts a bit slow but ramps up fast, and I‘m excited it‘s only the first in a trilogy!

Hello #SheSaid!

I hope this week has been treating you well and that you enjoyed the break/catch-up month. We are back this week with the first section of The Fifth Season! It is a reread for me, but I have to say I still feel as lost in the beginning this time as I did then, even though I know it all makes sense later… how are you making out with this week‘s section?

A strange and disturbing book - despite the cover, this is dark and dystopian. The kind of unexpected book for which I love the TOB. At first I thought I was reading a sort of fairy tale, but the story slowly unfolds and becomes increasingly unsettling. A strong pick. #TOB2026

Life has cut back on my reading time. Finally getting to the second book of this series I promised my oldest I would read.

This was an intriguing audio. It‘s classified as Science Fiction but I didn‘t think of it as Sci-Fi. The characters are brought to a compound in a desert to be filmed for a reality tv show. As time goes on and players are sent home, antics are upped, and trust begins to dwindle.I was most interested in how the game changed the characters personalities and thought processes over time spent within the compound. Kinda creepy.

I took me a while to finish this one. The first half of the book had so many parallels to what is happening right now that I needed time to process. I'm still not sure how I feel about the second half of the book. It was good but it took a turn I was not expecting. It's still a good book though.

A low pick or high so-so. It was fine but I think any boredom or “meh” I feel about it has to do with what I thought it would be vs what it actually was. I wanted more dystopia and climate fiction, and while there are *nods* to those things in here, that‘s not what this is. Rather, it‘s a commentary on reality TV, what‘s real vs what the media wants you to see, and corporate sponsorship of entertainment. It‘s fine-even enjoyable-but WHY…