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Outdoor pain day reading. I‘m about 40 pages into THE MEMORY LIBRARIAN, and I‘m feeling it way less than I expected to. Sadness. I hope it‘s just the way Monáe‘s style jives with coauthor Alaya Dawn Johnson‘s and I‘ll like the other stories, co-written with other people, more.

In contrast, I‘ve found Simu Liu to be a really engaging storyteller so far. I hope his memoir keeps up.

Ooh. Thanks #NetGalley. Did NOT expect that to be approved!

Narrated by Janelle Monae and Bahni Turpin.

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#bookhaul day!! I gotta bunch today in the mail most from Thrift books (used) but this one! I was so excited I pre-ordered
The book I got that I am the most exciting to read!

Reading Envy Podcast Episode 246: Unsettling Endings with Yanira

Yanira shares why she deleted Goodreads and how it's improved her reading life, and we talk about rereading books before we dig into books we've read and liked lately.

Listen and subscribe:
https://tinyurl.com/ReadingEnvy246

These stories link back to Dirty Computer the album and Dirty Computer [Emotion Picture] that you can watch in YouTube. Written in collabortion with Yohanca Delgado, Eve L. Ewing, Alaya Dawn Johnson, Danny Lore, and Sheree Renée Thomas, all stories are set in this dystopian tech-totalitarian society where people who are outside the norms (aka Dirty Computers) are hunted down and imprisoned, memories wiped, and more.↘�

I rarely preorder books, because it usually takes me months or even years to get around to reading them anyway! 🙄 But I really wanted a signed edition of this one. My precious. *caresses book* 🤩

Pre-ordered a signed edition of Janelle Monae's book! �
Also ordered The Dark Vault for my wife. It was one of the first books on her Goodreads to-read list, hope she still wants to read it 😬

Singer and actress Janelle Monae brings her Dirty Computer inspiration to life by collaborating with several POC sci-fi/fantasy authors to create a dystopian Afrofuturistic world where AI and humanity is controlled, manipulated, and enslaved. However, each story is a fight for the characters to reach some form of freedom and emotional autonomy. Though an ambitious concept, it falls flat with the overall connection. Only for fans of Janelle Monae.

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