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#bookreport includes two books with small town sheriffs, both of which were beat out by a floating near-future city full of refugees. I'm also ready for the next book in Gray's Austen-inspired murder romp series!

September! Cozy vibes!! Apple picking and crafting and reading buddy reads on the deck with hot coffee!!!
I have my beady little eyes on 14-16, which are still on hold from the library (*grabby hands*)
Oh, and I really need to figure out what‘s happening with way too many half-reads (looking at you, tagged book. And the #bookspin from January… yikes 🫣). Happy fall, everyone! 🍁🍎🧙‍♀️

top four I had on hold… bottom 2 were #impulse

#library #toomanybooksnotenoughtime

Honestly, I don't think I was in the right mindset for this book. I did enjoy the use of nanites to be able to bond with animals. I got a huge "omega" feel from this city/station. I felt no connection to any character. There seemed to only be bad guys. They were either a crime lord or working for one. And when one turned sides you didn't care anymore.

#TBRPile 📚 “People would say she came to Qaanaaq in a skiff towed by a killer whale harnessed to the front like a horse.”

As usual, finish 1 book; find 5 more! Uplifting apocalyptic fiction = a new microgenre for me to explore.
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https://www.tor.com/2020/05/29/five-books-about-finding-hope-at-the-end-of-the-w...
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#toread #scifi #booklist #readinglist #hopepunk

Interesting concept and characters. Enough action and intrigue to keep you interested. However a few of the more major side characters get shafted in their development due to switching narratives.

It took me a bit to get into this but by the end it was so good. It was around page 140 when I started to see the threads pull together and the interconnectedness of the multiple povs. This is an apocalyptic world but in many ways is a good extrapolation of the way our world today is headed. This is book nine for #BookSpinBonanza.
#BuriedAliveChallenge

This hits a little too close to home with the world today. It‘s a fictional world but so easily relatable to the real one.

Here is my list for May's #BookSpin. I have a couple of chunksters but I want to see how far I can go with the #BookSpinBonanza! I have no illusions of finishing all 20 but it will be nice to get a fair amount off my TBR. Thanks as always to @TheAromaofBooks for hosting.

Interesting ideas. Believable to an extent but seemed as though there was something missing to me. The story built up quite nicely, but seemed to plateau and fizzle out in my opinion.

Didn't like it.

Imaginative, but it drags and there's not enough literary insight to make up for the boring plot and unpleasant characters.

Can't clearly explain why but the underlying morality seems rather gross.

Really liked the world and the characters, but felt the story was wrapped up a little too quickly and neatly. 3.5/5

After war & the irrevocable march of climate change leads to environmental disaster(s), people flee to floating cities in the Arctic. A woman riding an orca accompanied by a polar bear arrives in one such city & changes everything. Miller‘s writing is assured & the worldbuilding is phenomenal in this story populated with intriguing characters living in a fascinating (possible but let‘s hope not) future. I really enjoyed this book. Great SF read.

Sleeping isn‘t happening so I guess reading is...Honestly, I‘m ok with that!

Next up.

A lot of moving parts here, & it somehow mostly works. Convincingly terrifying post-climate change dystopian city? Check. Mysterious yet conveniently exposition-y plague ravaging said city? Check. Technology that's basically magic but not quite? Check. Getting the rag-tag band together to pull off the impossible? Check & check. Throw in a woman riding a killer whale & this is pretty much as advertised on the back cover. I enjoyed it a lot.

“Kaev went to the railing, watched the sea slosh at the struts underneath him, sipped his milk tea, smiled at the weird good fortune of being alive and unmiserable while so many people were not.”

It had just moments but ultimately left me a little underwhelmed.

I love reading with my calico lady. #bookswithmycalico

#bookfitnesschallenge #bfc I‘ve been doing well with some goals, and others not as much. I‘ve been keeping up with exercise and have been steadily cutting out the bunches of coffee cups I drink every day. The goal to go teeto isn‘t doing as well, but I‘m cutting back, so there‘s that! I started swimming again this week and remembered how much I love it! I‘m slow, but it‘s so relaxing and I still feel like I get a good workout.

A fascinating sci-fi book set after the collapse of civilization as we know it on a multi-cultural floating city. Several POVs intertwine, giving us a glimpse into the difficult lives of the people living in this corporate-run city where landlords have no restrictions & masses are dying from a mysterious new disease. Other highlights: epic worldbuilding, a woman bonded to an orca, seeing how all these characters fit together.

4.5 stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Audio dog walking 😅 (with a truly amazing audiobook btw)

I appreciate the humanity of the characters in this book. Some of them hurt other people, but they do it for such understandable reasons that it‘s hard to hate them.
”Stories prime us to search for villains. Because villains can be punished. Villains can be stopped. But villains are oversimplifications.”

@Readergrrl thank you so much! I have not read any of these books but they are all totally books I would (and will) read. I also love the socks, bookmark, and journal. P.S. I think we got each other one thing that is the same!
@Avanders thank you for putting this together! It was a blast.
#sffs #SciFiFantasySwap

Started this #dystopian #scifi this weekend. #sciencefiction

3.5/5 I spent half the book without a clue what's going on, but kept on reading because it was just so interesting and I wanted to know more. The next half when the story started to unveil was more disappointing, as the great elements introduced in the first half just didn't come together as great.
I certainly enjoyed the story, but it could've been so much.more.

#KindleDailyDeal picked this up today as a possible alternate for #Booked2019 #CliFi
I‘ve seen really good Litsy reviews 🤞🏼🤞🏼

I‘m the wrong audience, I suspect. Waterworld + cyberpunk + First Peoples. I read fiction for escapism, and dystopia doesn‘t do it for me. The book is well-done, and skillfully plays with shifting narratives. I also liked the inclusion of older adults, and the unconventional lifespan of one of the main characters.

"Stories are where we find ourselves, where we find the others who are like us. Gather enough stories and soon you're not alone; you are an army."

"People who only know suffering from stories are never prepared to find themselves inside one."

This #ebookdeal looks interesting!

A really enjoyable Sci-Fi story. How could I not read a book where a woman shows up to a floating city, riding a killer whale, and has a polar bear with her?

I love CMM‘s quote here, “a gorgeous, queer, muscular novel.” That‘s an accurate summary of Blackfish City. Let this story weave a fine net around you. Let it ensnare you. And may you be bewildered, dumbfounded, mute with heart-joy. 🐳🕸

1 Blackfish City 🌃 just got it and can‘t wait to dig in!
2 Giving the dog 🐾 a bath in the backyard
3 I‘m a fan of briny side dishes. Pickles!
#manicmonday @JoScho

@amyrohn This #bottleandbookswap box of goodies was TOO MUCH!! OMG look at all the books AND the gorgeous bottle!! Thank you for such thoughtful gifts! Look in the mail later this week for another little package as a token of my gratitude 🤓 Thank you @JoScho for organizing such a wonderful #bookswap!!! 📚📦🎉

In Blackfish City, there is no #hometownglory . The USA no longer exists, having self-imploded decades after the climate wars. The refugees find themselves in Qaanaaq, a floating city in the Arctic Circle ran by A.I. and shareholders. The story begins after the arrival of a mysterious woman riding an orca with a caged polar bear by her side. It's a beautiful story told through multiple narrators. #AdelesMayMashup @vkois88 @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Just picked this up between shifts. Gonna give it a quick sampling before heading back to work and dig into it proper like later tonight!

All I know is it's supposed to be 'cyberpunkish', takes place in the Arctic and it has orca whales and polar bears in it.

Color me interested! 😍

This week‘s roundup is speculative fiction! Dystopian, fairy tale retellings, sci-if. Descriptions on my blog or looks the titles up here https://www.bethfishreads.com/2018/04/7-new-books-for-speculative-fiction-fans.h...