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KathyWheeler
Blackout | Connie Willis
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Arrrrghh! I did not know the story was not complete in one book! I had to get All Clear and start listening to it since I finished Blackout in the middle of my walk. I was far too invested in the story not to continue it. #audiowalk

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Teresereading
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On the road to Roswell!
#whereareyouMonday
@Cupcake12

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Graciouswarriorlibrarian
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I completed the quarterly bingo challenge from the Uncorked Librarian.

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Luke-XVX
The Strange | Nathan Ballingrud
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Le splurge.

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Melismatic
Wild Seed | Octavia E Butler
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Did a ton of reorganizing yesterday. Now my body hurts but my brand new bookshelf for my TBR is done! 😂🤷🏻‍♀️

Ruthiella Nice! And room for more books, just in case! 😜 1d
Melismatic @Ruthiella exactly! 😂🤷🏻‍♀️ 1d
dabbe 🤩😍🤩 1d
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Smarkies
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Liked the concepts of some of the stories - and for that it gets a pick.
However, I am learning that short stories may not be for me as it sometimes feels a little too "short". Enjoyed Tower of Babylon, Story of your Life and Liking What You See.
#roll100

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KathyWheeler
Blackout | Connie Willis
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Our fake autumn is beginning now. The temps are in the 60s in the mornings but jump to low 80s in the afternoon. The breezes make for lovely walks. I still am not sure how all the stories are going to converge, but I‘m beginning to see possibilities. #audiowalk

lauraisntwilder The weather was so nice today! My son had an XC meet and it was the perfect morning for it. 2d
KathyWheeler @lauraisntwilder I bet! It was so lovely. 1d
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vlwelser
Kindred | Octavia Butler
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This is so good. Everyone should read it. Not sure how I got tricked into another time travel book but this is probably the best.

#AuthorAMonth @Soubhiville

#BookSpinBingo @TheAromaofBooks

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 1d
MallenNC Such a good book. 1d
Melismatic I read this the first time during peak covid and ugly cried through most of it. It‘s so well written. 5h
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Bookwomble
The Killing Thing | Kate Wilhelm
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Written in 1967 at the height of the Vietnam War, this starts out as good-guy-vs-evil-robot Heinleinian military sci-fi, but through flashbacks we quickly see that the human MC is a symbol for US imperialist aggression, & the "good guy" is as much a Killing Thing as the robot, which is reacting (albeit with overwhelming violence) to threats made to its existence.
There's a general styled on Curtis "bomb them back into the Stone Age" LeMay, who ⬇️

Bookwomble ... also inspired the mad general in Kubrick's "Strangelove", and who objected to Operation Rolling Thunder as he felt it wasn't intensive enough.
Anyway, Wilhelm's novel has an intense, claustrophobic atmosphere that leans into the adventure element, without losing sight of her more serious subtexts: imperialism, colonialism, capitalism, oppression, sexism, militarism, totalitarianism, pacifism -ism, -ism, -ism. 4?
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RamsFan1963
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I really wanted to like this, the premise was very interesting, but I just couldn't get into it. After almost a month, I've only finished 100 pages, so it's time to quit. I'll hold on to it and maybe take another run at it in 2026. #hailthebail

BkClubCare All good, a book might need a different season. 👍 2d
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