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Rated Yesteryear 6/10
I didn’t exactly love this book, but it’s an easy quick read if you want to hate basically every single character!
Rated The Call of Cthulhu 9/10
Finished reading Record of a Spaceborn Few
Finished reading The Yiddish Policemen's Union
Magic can give you just one thing. Choose wisely:
Knowledge?
Courage?
Love?
Or simply more time at home?
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Finished reading Parable of the Talents
Rated The Infinite and the Divine 8/10
Rated Spark 6/10
SPARK is a somewhat disorienting little book. What starts out as a fairly straightforward story turns into a darker, mysterious world.<br><br>The trouble I had with these mysterious occurrences was that I wasn't entirely sure that they were real. Now, maybe the issue is that I was reading the book while tired, before bed, and maybe there were clues that I did not notice. If Mauk intended to makes these experiences surreal, I cannot say for certain if that's how they come across.<br><br>I'd be curious to hear other readers' impressions. SPARK is definitely a novel that merits discussion, and I hope that it gets it.<br><br>(My full review appears on <a href="http://glorifiedloveletters.blogspot.com/2012/09/spark-by-courtney-elizabeth-mauk.html">Glorified Love Letters</a>.)
Rated Spore 8/10
This was way better than the 50th Anniversary re-issue of EARTHWORLD, which also features the Eighth Doctor, but I wondered how much of the audio adventures Scarrow had listened to because the first half of the story sounded like the Eighth Doctor, and the second half, a bit less so -- A bit more like the Fifth, maybe. Still sounded like the Doctor, but less about the specific incarnation.<br><br>The pacing was good except in that the story just seems to suddenly be done. Partially, this is a problem with the short story format combined with the breadth of DW history, but it did leave me somewhat with the feeling of, "Oh. So we're done now."<br><br>However, this story overall would have made a really great episode too. Maybe one day we'll get a Big Finish audio of it, depending upon how the BBC licenses such things.
Finished reading The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
Rated The Small Backs of Children 10/10
Art is a weapon. Lidia Yuknavitch's latest novel explores the lives of people either directly or indirectly related to a photographer who has taken a very famous photo of a girl from war-torn Eastern Europe. There's a performance artist, a poet, and a filmmaker married to a writer who has fallen into a deep depression, and all the words are wrapped up in the bodily reactions people have in the face of trauma.<br><br>The narrative blurs the line between a story once told, a story repeatedly told, and the fractured fourth wall between creator and audience. It's an interesting way to approach complex themes, and though the subject matter may be tough, it's not a tough read.<br><br>(See the rest of my Top 10 Favorites read in 2015 at <a href="http://glorifiedloveletters.blogspot.com/2015/12/glorified-love-letters-top-10-favorite.html">Glorified Love Letters</a>.)
Finished reading The Kingdom of Copper
Finished reading The Empire of Gold
The English poet Roger McGough sends readers’ eyes travelling to and fro the way a tennis ball would across a net when they read 40-Love. Indeed, the poem itself – like the “middle aged couple” he writes about – is split by such a ‘net.’
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Rated Fugitive Telemetry 8/10
I enjoyed this story but damn it was very confusing trying to work out if the details around the GrayCris assassination attempt also on Preservation Station. <br/><br/>Furthermore this is the sixth book but happens between Exit Strategy (four) and Network Effect (five). I’m definitely going to need to relisten all three audio books in chronological order order.<br/><br/>Really enjoying the switch to detective story style and as always I enjoy seeing Murderbot/Sec Unit grow.
Rated System Collapse 10/10
Wow this was a fab story. I love watching Murderbot and ART’s humans working together and fighting the Barish-Estranza corporation. The surprise for me was that Murderbot came up with its own media ( inspired by Murderbot 2.0’s own SecUnit freedom message) and that it worked was pretty cool too. Keep growing Murderbot!