jay reviewed The Galaxy, and the Ground Within by Becky Chambers (Wayfarers, #4)
With no water, no air, and no native life, the planet Gora is unremarkable. The …
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4 stars
I really like how it centers different access needs and handling them.
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Contains brainfog. I admire people who have a clear definition for what each number of stars means, but I give them out purely intuitively.
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jay rated Record of a Spaceborn Few: 4 stars
Record of a Spaceborn Few by Becky Chambers (Wayfarers, #3)
Centuries after the last humans left Earth, the Exodus Fleet is a living relic, a place many are from but …
jay rated A Closed and Common Orbit: 3 stars
A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers (Wayfarers, #2)
Once, Lovelace had eyes and ears everywhere. She was a ship's artificial intelligence system – possessing a personality and very …
jay rated A Prayer for the Crown-Shy: 3 stars
A Prayer for the Crown-Shy by Becky Chambers (Monk and Robot, #2)
After touring the rural areas of Panga, Sibling Dex (a Tea Monk of some renown) and Mosscap (a robot sent …
jay started reading The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers (Wayfarers, #1)
Follow a motley crew on an exciting journey through space-and one adventurous young explorer who …
another reread
jay rated The Other Wind: 5 stars
Ursula K. Le Guin: The Other Wind (2001, Harcourt)
The Other Wind by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Other Wind is a fantasy novel by the American author Ursula K. Le Guin, published by Harcourt in 2001. …
jay started reading The Other Wind by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Other Wind is a fantasy novel by the American author Ursula K. Le Guin, …
Felt a need to go back to Earthsea.
jay rated Nine Lives: 5 stars
jay rated Emergency Skin: 4 stars
Emergency Skin by N. K. Jemisin (Forward Collection, #3)
What will become of our self-destructed planet? The answer shatters all expectations in this subversive speculation from the Hugo Award–winning …
jay reviewed The ghostway by Tony Hillerman
Old Joseph Joe sees it all. Two strangers spill blood at the Shiprock Wash-O-Mat. One …
The Ghostway
4 stars
A friend recommended this series for the pacing and the important role the landscape plays in the stories, which intrigued me. And it really delivered in these respects. The pacing is truly excellent, unhurried without dropping the reader. The description of the landscapes painted them well enough in my mind, without ever having been in any similar ones. The glimpses into the life and inner worlds of the protagonists were convincing and interesting. The unraveling of the mistery felt engaging and natural, despite the small red herrings.
Books I really love are usually ones that concern themselves with the big questions. This isn't that—not that it leaves them out, it's just not what the book is about. It still was a pleasure to listen to, and made me think about how I acquired this taste and how useful it is at my present point in life.
I listened to …
A friend recommended this series for the pacing and the important role the landscape plays in the stories, which intrigued me. And it really delivered in these respects. The pacing is truly excellent, unhurried without dropping the reader. The description of the landscapes painted them well enough in my mind, without ever having been in any similar ones. The glimpses into the life and inner worlds of the protagonists were convincing and interesting. The unraveling of the mistery felt engaging and natural, despite the small red herrings.
Books I really love are usually ones that concern themselves with the big questions. This isn't that—not that it leaves them out, it's just not what the book is about. It still was a pleasure to listen to, and made me think about how I acquired this taste and how useful it is at my present point in life.
I listened to the audiobook, narrated by George Guidall.
Gifts by Ursula K. Le Guin
When a young man in the Uplands blinds himself rather than use his gift of "unmaking"--a violent talent shared by …
jay started reading The Beginning Place: A Novel by Ursula K. Le Guin
Getting more into non-Hain non-Earthsea LeGuin. I'm past the middle and don't really know where this is going, but I do have the time to find out. On one layer it's an image of US society in the (50s? 60s?).
jay reviewed The Eye of the Heron by Ursula K. Le Guin
In Victoria on a former prison colony, two exiled groups—the farmers of Shantih and the …
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5 stars
jay finished reading The Eye of the Heron by Ursula K. Le Guin
In Victoria on a former prison colony, two exiled groups—the farmers of Shantih and the …
I liked that the story didn't have a hero, and that the book saw the nonviolent ideals through to an end.
jay commented on Jenseits von Hoffnung und Zweifel by ausgeCO2hlt
»Oft ist davon die Rede, dass wir das Klima ›retten‹ müssen. Das klingt so, als …
Gutes Buch bis jetzt.
Ich merke ihm etwas an, dass es von einer größeren Gruppe geschrieben wurde. Außerdem bin ich nicht so ganz die Zielgruppe, ich ringe schon um Hoffnung im Angesicht der Klimakrise, aber es macht mich nicht kaputt.
Schätze ich werde sehr langsam damit weiterkommen, auch okay.