Welcome to Litsy!

May was a great reading month and I finally did get a #bookspinbingo!

This was just as lovely as the previous two books. This series is so heartwarming, despite the fact that this book started with thousands of deaths! I loved that the Exodan society‘s way of disposing of their dead was human composting! Magrat was curious about this book (or maybe just about the ice cream I was eating as I finished it). My #bookspin for May @TheAromaofBooks

I enjoyed this but definitely not as much as the others in the Wayfarers series. It was much more like reading 5 separate short stories one chapter at a time than one whole book. It does raise interesting philosophical points, and I will be thinking about some of it for a while.

The tagged book has been on my TBR for about 5 years. I‘ve read the first two books and have been saving it - hopefully starting it this weekend. The other book is an ebook on the Libby App it‘s a #blameitonLitsy #litsylove Readathon

2.5/5⭐ Great if you want a meandering stroll through various themes, as there's almost no plot to speak of. The thematic exploration is done well. Feels more like the author's worldbuilding notes than a book in its own right. #doublespin

4 ⭐ This is barely a 4 stars for me, but the last half of the book edged it to four stars for me. I Becky Chambers Wayfarers series, but this is the weakest to me so far. I just had a hard time getting into the book at the beginning, and I think it would have been even harder for me if I wasn't listening to it on audio. 👇

Becky Chambers has quickly become 1of my favorite authors. This series of loosely connected books is excellent. Each is unique with rich characters all set in the same "world" of her vividly imagined space. Book 3 has less action than 1 & 2 but expands her vision of off earth life with a couple of intertwining stories. The book is still highly readable like a town drama but in space, a meditation of who and why we are.

Not as good as the first two in the series, I suppose, but I enjoyed the world-building and the characters a great deal. Earnest, in the best possible sense of the word. (I know cynicism is in fashion but we need more earnest writers.)

I love Becky chambers so much. The pace with her books is calm and this one particularly was slow (not necessarily in a bad way) for the first half. I was heavily invested in the second half though and the ending was incredible. I also find the ideas around how humans could be perceived by other life forms in space completely fascinating. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

And that's my #BookSpin choice finished! Still not my favourite of the series, but I do appreciate Sawyer's journey a bit better this time -- and Kip's too.

Still planning on working on that middle line: I've started Exhalation, since it's a book club book in my guild on Habitica.

This is my least favourite of the series so far (haven't read the third book), even though it reliably makes me weepy much earlier in the book than the other two. (It's rare that anything makes me weepy, so Becky Chambers is doing something special here.) I think it's the characters... they just don't stick with me as much.

Nothing like an amazing meal in the north end #Boston with a book

I'm not one for valentines day, but I could profess undying love to my heated blanket on this bitterly cold day.

1st read of the year! Majorly different from the previous two, since it splits more definitively into more stories to create more perspectives within a human centric community. Still as interesting, and the world building is still incredible.

The third installment in the Wayfarer universe and wonderful as always. Chambers has a way with weaving characters' stories together subtly. This one was set on the Exodan Fleet, exploring themes of tradition and belonging, finding your own corner of the universe to call home.
I finished this last week but finally getting around to reviewing 🤦🏼‍♀️

#2021Book114
This is my least favorite book from this series so far. It barely mentioned the characters from the first book and had no connection to the characters from the second. It also returned to having multiple narrators, only about half of which had compelling storylines. While the writing was still good, I had a harder time caring about these characters.

Becky Chambers is so good at world building!
This novel follows the daily lives of the humans in the Exodus Fleet. The first Exodus Fleet left Earth when it was no longer habitable. Centuries later, their descendants make choices to leave for alien cities or stay in the carefully regulated environment of the ship. Over time, some stay and some go.
What does humanity mean to people who have never seen Earth and have always lived in the stars……..

These books are not for the reader who is looking for an exciting plot-driven novel. Instead it was a quiet glimpse into the everyday lives of the people on the Exodus Fleet and had some really beautiful musings on life, death and the meaning of it all. I have to be in the right mood for Becky Chambers' books, but they are just soooo good when I'm there.
#audiostitching

Inadvertently spent the evening #audiocrafting - someone donated a TON of scrapbooking materials to my Little Free Library and told me to take what I wanted for myself/ my kids. I turned on the audiobook, intended to just start sorting and organizing... ended up making a bunch of bookmarks. At least I say I used them to make something for the library!

Day 1 results for the #AwesomeAugust readathon hosted by @Andrew65

I meant to post this earlier. I worked on these two books yesterday. Five hours is a good pace to complete 40 hours over the course of the readathon. 💚📖📚💚📖

Re-read.

I enjoyed the continued worldbuilding of Exodans, but this one felt way less cohesive than the others in the series.

Yay for archivists, though!

STOP MAKING ME CRY BECKY CHAMBERS!
I promised myself before I started this books that I wouldn't get attached to anyone or anything, like I did in the first two books because I knew exactly how it would end for me... but that failed within the first couple of chapters because I was super invested in all of them.
I adored this story; it gave me hope, made me feel at home, broke my heart and put it back together again.
Highly recommend!

I've been rereading Becky Chambers' Wayfarer series in anticipation of book 4 just out this month. Loving every moment of revisiting her Exodan world!

#AwesomeApril #readathon @Andrew65

About 6 hours so far in 4 different books. 😁

Started the tagged book this morning.

Loving this #sliceoflife series set in #space.

Thanks to @ReadingEnvy for talking about this series on her podcast.

It‘s difficult to rate this trilogy. First one was amazing. I loved the characters and was looking forward to seeing them again in the second. I was disappointed that the story went another direction which made me rate it lower. This book went yet another direction and on its own merits was an okay book but was another disappointment for the series.

#bookhaul!! I‘m super excited about these, most of them I‘ve wanted to read for a while

Re-read, I love this one more every time.

Here is a book I did finish a few months ago! The third book of the Wayfarer series---told from multiple perspectives. Probably my least favorite of the three--I absolutely adored Long Way to A Small Angry Planet and Closed and Common Orbit. I found this one highly enjoyable and related most to Eyas--who's work is highly meaningful but just doesn't bring her enough personal fulfillment. Highly recommend if you like SciFi

Book 3 in the trilogy. Each book has a different aspect of living in space in the future. All books somewhat linked but I would read them in order. We will never get to space if we can‘t even get the flying cars going! 🛸

Love her books!!!

The third in The Wayfarer Series records the experiences of the Exodans who live on generation ships. The first two books in this series are delightful. This entry also has hope in the goodness of humanity and other sentient beings, although I had a bit of a problem with the multiple viewpoints. Some characters and stories were more compelling than others. Still, the universe that Chambers has created is a good place to be.

Another great installment of the Wayfarers series following various inhabitants of the Exoden fleet as they weather life and change aboard the aging vessels. A+ sci-fi and storytelling as always from Chambers

4 stars / ⭐⭐⭐⭐

1. Record of a Spaceborn Few, The Bone Witch, Magnificent Ms. Marvel, Burn Our Bodies Down, and Otaku

2. Crocheting

3. Hollow Kingdom

#weekendreads

The guilt lingered, even so. Ghosts were imaginary, but hauntings were real.

January Stats

9 books
2,677 pages
Longest: Dangerous Alliance
Shortest: a short story by Rachel Brittain
Favorites: Record of a Spaceborn Few

#audiobaking last night--Cinnamon Toast Crunch cupcakes! ❤😊🎂 & I finished the book! Thoroughly enjoyed it, but I still liked the first in the trilogy best.

Hmm.

I liked this book! I enjoyed the experience of reading it. But. Parts of it felt kind of meandering at times. I could tell that the various threads were going to come together eventually, but they took a little too long to do so. It was a pleasant journey but it felt a bit pointless at times and I'd have preferred a tighter narrative.

Truly this is a perfect pastiche of every conversation I have ever had with a toddler

5/5

No one else writes science fiction like Becky Chambers. In this novel, we get follow the intersecting lives of 5 humans living aboard one of the human space ships. One of the humans, Tessa, is Ashby's sister, but that's the only direct link to the rest of the series.

It's such a good novel, and I really recommend reading it.

I've spent very nice weekend #audioknitting

Finished this one as I‘m getting ready for NYE. Two of my dearest friends got married six years ago, so now we always have an excuse to have a small gathering at their house rather than navigate bigger shenanigans out on the town. Xander is warming my dress for me. 🙄😻 #catsoflitsy #whatareyoudoingNYE

Really interesting take on parallels between post-mortem care and sex work.

“...(she knew the crying hadn‘t been in response to her lack of pants, but still).”
😂

A disappointing and boring record of space. For the full review, please visit http://benjamin-m-weilert.com/index.php/2019/12/11/book-record-of-a-spaceborn-fe...

So beautiful.

TEN (days to go)

It‘s time to count down to #SciFiMonth! Our annual geek out over books, movies and other media will be running through November - including a read-along of Record of a Spaceborn Few, a twice as nice giveaway to get us started and a heap of fun along the way! Fancy joining us?

Details and sign up link - https://onemore.org/2019/10/17/scifimonth-2019-plot-your-course/