Welcome to Litsy!

Here‘s my audiobook stats from Amazon Music. I really enjoyed Project Hail Mary. I want to read The Martian next whenever I get a chance to. This was the first time I listened to audiobooks on Amazon Music.

I‘m going to take a short break from this classic (one that‘s really feeling timely and that I should‘ve read a long time ago) to get to some Christmas-y rom coms before the season‘s gone. PS: I‘m really loving this book…and mildly terrified as I read it.

Reasons why my #AuldLangSpine list from @Karisa is amazing:
1. The first two made my own ALS list
2. 2 others *almost* made the cut (5 & 15)
3. I‘ve been needing some urging to get to the next Louise Penny book
4. 1984 could really use a reread right now
5. The ones I hadn‘t heard of are totally my vibe!
I will be starting with 3, 8, 9, and 14. They are already on the way!

The goriness/sex focus of this was not super my thing, but I did enjoy the way it tried to play with language/orthography (the translators' note about trying to represent the things the original in Korean does is fascinating), and how it's obviously about queerness and gender, really.

I enjoyed this short novella prequel to the Partials series, about one of the cyborg-esque people of the series title. I don‘t remember Heron having a POV in the books and she‘s a really intriguing character so it was fun to learn more about her past. She turns out to be pivotal to the history of her people because the humans designed and trained her to be too smart for them.

I‘m joining all the fun things late!
#10BeforetheEnd
#BookspinBingo (I‘m going to use every book in the picture 2x, my Jolabokaflod gift & books in progress for the last row. ☺️)
I think I signed up for #MidWinterSolace too!

Just trying to finish all the challenges before the end of the year! Last year I read 7 books in December. 🤞🏼

Thank you
@ChaoticMissAdventures
@TheAromaofBooks
@AllDebooks
@TheBookHippie
@Chrissyreadit

Clarke's 2001 is one of my favorite SF books of all time. I think it's even better than the movie, which is saying a lot bc I love Kubrick. This is my second Clarke read & a word that keeps popping up is perihelion: the point of a planet, asteroid, or comet at which it is closest to the sun
#weirdwordswednesday @cbee
Side note: Villeneuve hinted at an adaptation, but typing the definition, I'm reminded of the excellent D. Boyle movie “Sunshine“

Holy crap on a cracker. I did not expect to adore this book. It‘s a cozy, low-stakes sci-fi that is more character-driven than plot-driven. It focuses on identity and found family. I genuinely, truly loved this. I sat up late into the night reading because I didn‘t want to leave. Becky Chambers shared Zoë van Dijk‘s artwork for the folio edition, and it is everything. So many green flags. It‘s thoughtful and thought-provoking. Beautiful.

Four robots reactivate and find themselves in a restaurant, abandoned by the owner, and with lots to still pay on their contracts. So, they work together to create a noodle place. It‘s 2064 California and we get to see where society is and why it‘s transformed. I liked this, especially how clearly it is a metaphor for transness.