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Ah back to finishing my graphic novel series. In this volume, we learn more about Jayne's past and why he left his hometown and family. The crew of Serenity is in a bind to help monks that have been robbed and chaos ensues. Wonderful story and I even like the new characters. Good graphics as well.

Displaying Ashton‘s signature humor, The Fourth Consort takes place in outer space in a sci-fi light comedy. A short and quick read. Enjoyable but I did wish for a little more substance.

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Happy Publication Day! Staples‘ second novel is actually something of a sequel to THIS TOWN SLEEPS— which I wish I had known before diving into this one! I also wish that I had a physical copy instead… the audio performance is great, but with multiple narrators, dates to keep straight & some abrupt, fever dream feeling transitions, I would‘ve preferred being able to more easily flip pages back as needed for reference in this casino based Inferno.

Ashton‘s latest makes for a quick & fun listen! Dalton Greaves left a lonely life in WV to work for the Unity a space initiative run by a snail-like species looking for other intelligent beings. The book opens when they land on a planet with giant insect-like creatures at the same time as their space rivals, stick-bug like aliens. With humor & heart, this is a genuinely fun & well-performed listen! Can‘t wait for more from Ashton!

A fun novelisation of the 1966 movie by Asimov, who does what he can within the scifi premise to include realistic science as problems to be solved by the crew of scientists and technicians, miniaturised in a nuclear-powered submarine and injected into the bloodstream of a defecting physicist with an inoperable brain tumour to save his life and the knowledge he has in order to maintain a cold war stalemate.
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My sunday afternoon : reading the tagged book and building a book related lego :)

I love a "micronauts" story, and I guess this is one of the most famous (perhaps alongside Matheson's The Incredible Shrinking Man", oh, and Honey I Shrunk the Kids, oh, and Inner Space, ok there's loads!). The trope is ancient, though, being found in folklore tales such as Tom Thumb.
The front cover of my edition (1966 first UK edition, for what that's worth) is slightly boring, but I like the back cover Technicolour movie still.

I did pretty well with my first month of #Roll100 in January—2 books completed and I‘m 2/3 through the third book. Hopefully that bodes well for February! Here are my books corresponding to the numbers.