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I'm a bit ashamed to admit this as a #sf fan, but I haven't read anything by Octavia Butler before, so I decided to dip my toes into something short. Here are two of her early works, and if that's how she wrote when still inexperienced, then oh boy, do I have a lot of catch up reading to do. It's not ideal, and you can sort of feel the lack of confidence under the storyteling, but the flow, the ideas, and her style—those really vibe with me. 3.5/5

Thank you, Michelle (@Chelleo) for this card and bookmark but most of all, thank you for being the amazing host of the Black History Month Swap. #bhms #blitsyswap

What makes Butler‘s writing so engaging is present here, but as the stories are so short, the ideas are compressed and don‘t get to truly flourish.
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These stories were found and published posthumously. Not my favorite but that has more to do with it being outside my genre than with Butler

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Not familiar with speculative fiction, so I chose Butler's short stories.
An unexpected surprise!
Perfect for night & I had to restrain from continuing in the day 😉😆

A Necessary Being succinctly captures paradoxical hierarchy, where the Hao is apprehended to rule the captors.
The second, A Childfinder, is a brief tale of budding telepaths and their mentor facing danger.

Looking forward to more of her books.

🎉 It‘s the weekend! 🎉 I have my reading nest all set up, and what I hope to read all picked out. (And now I also have an apple with nose smudges from Farrokh.🤣) What are your reading plans this weekend? 📚

I've loved her short stories so far. So excited to read one her full novels.

I wasn't ready. LOL I don't know what I thought these short stories would be about, but I wasn't expecting what they were. Very good, interesting stories.

Finished The Hate U Give with four hours to go in my flight... thank goodness I never travel without my #Kindle! (I have two more hardcovers in my checked luggage too. 😉)

I actually finished this novella within an hour or so of starting it (review to come🤞🏻), and am currently halfway through Akata Witch as we touch down in AZ, site of my SIL-to-be‘s bachelorette weekend. My first trip away from Little Dude! 🌵🌵🌵

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#AustenInAugust #Stats

Read two physical books
Listened to two audiobooks
Listened to three LeVar Burton Reads podcast episodes

Thank you @Crinoline_Laphroaig for hosting this month; I had a great time admiring all your Jane Austen paraphernalia!!!

It's Octavia Butler, of course it was good. This book was made up of two stories discovered after her death and I especially enjoyed the first (and much longer) story, A Necessary Being. I just read my first Butler last year (the Xenogenesis trilogy) and I look forward to exploring all of her work in the future.

This will FINALLY start my #readharder challenge (a posthumously published work). I like to go at challenges strictly in order for an extra challenge and could not get into this first prompt until now. I LOVED Xenogenesis trilogy last year when I did titles track for #litsyAtoZ so I expect great things here (so far so good!)

Two little short stories that were found in the authors paperwork after her passing. I enjoyed both and wish there were more.

😂😂Sadly I have to agree completely Ms Butler, how we've managed to survive this long as a species is down right amazing when you think about some of the difficulties we bring on ourselves.

The afterward of a little collections of two short stories by Octavia Butler found in her papers after her passing.

I love the added parentheses remake.

SF/F readers: we've got a fantastic Humble Bundle going right now. The charity we're supporting is First Book, a great literacy organization. Bundle runs through March 28th. Link: https://www.humblebundle.com/books/women-of-scifi-and-fantasy-book-bundle

First book read in 2017, and last Octavia Butler book I had left to read. I am so sad. The first Octavia Butler book I read was Parable of the Sower and I read all of the rest of her books rather quickly. She got me in to sci-fi. I waited over two years to read this collection (it's been sitting in my kindle since 2014) because I didn't want to really be done with all her books. No one compares to #octaviaebutler. #diversebooks2017