Welcome to Litsy!

Loving this NK Jemisin graphic novel.

My #AAM choice for Kurt Vonnegut was a bit of a miss for me. Strange and quirky, it was a little too out there for me, the wild twists and turns kept taking me out of the story. I‘ve really enjoyed Breakfast of Champions when I read it years ago so this one might just not have been for me. #audio @Soubhiville

And I managed to finish it in our 2-night stay at this lodge. It's a fast read. Perfect rainforest reading. Enjoyed it as much as I did when I read it about 10 times as a teenager.

I want more! Really my only gripe is that this novella simply whetted my appetite for further stories in the same place.
Newitz did a great job of setting up the characters, their personalities, their woes and hopes, as well as an engaging but not overwhelming amount of world-building exploring how things function in this post-war slightly futuristic California 1/?

This one‘s hard to review because some of the short stories I really enjoyed, and some had me very bored. In general, I like sci-fi that reads more like fantasy, and am less drawn to “hard sci-fi” that gets in the weeds with theoretical and technological descriptions of the science. Many of the stories in this collection felt like they were written by different people because of how much the styles varied.

A MASTERFUL conclusion to the trilogy that has now risen to the top of my all-time favorites!!

Sorry in advance to all the people I talk to in the next year who will get sick of hearing me preach about it 😄 “All rejoice!”

80/100 I found this delightful, both in the characters and the world building. My only complaint is it's too short, it's only scratched the surface of the characters' histories and the wrecked world they live in, before it suddenly over. If the author wanted to do a series of novellas, like the Murderbot Diaries, with these characters, I'd be very interested to read more about the Automatic Noodle restaurant. 4/5 ⭐ #Read2025

New books from a Silent Reading event last night. Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir and The Midnight Library by Matt Haig. That was a DNF for me a few years ago, but I‘ve decided to give it a second chance.

I'd be lying if I said the idea of finding a hole in a green space to hide from the world for a bit never occurred or appealed to me. Suppose this comes under the heading of 'forest bathing'? 🤔😅

Here's to a little joyful excess.