Sometimes I can‘t tell whether an author‘s writing reminds me of other media, or if a shared narrator brings those previously-listened-to titles more easily to mind, but I‘m getting hints of N K Jemisin‘s Broken Earth for sure, as well as Octavia Butler and Martha Wells.
My current read & my next one. Maybe🤔That‘s the problem with having such a massive TBR, too many to choose from makes for indecision. I‘ve already started Translation State & loving being back in the Imperial Radch Universe. Vanished Birds is also SciFi but I‘ll probably change my mind & switch to another genre knowing me lately🤷🏻♀️
#WeekendReads
pickI really like this. Leckie does an incredible job of creating truly alien pov and then drawing the reader into them. The story deals with rape culture, trans identities, gender, and adoption in ways that makes me think this is going to be a book the young adults are going to continue to find and find solace in while the US loses its mind. Just an fyi, there is a scene that reads like and is treated like sexual assault.
“If it was explained to them that I don‘t want-“
“No one is going to explain that to anyone. After all things are working out just fine for those of us in authority.”
pickA welcome return to the Imperial Radch universe. Clever and twisty read.
pickAnything Ann Leckie writes, I read! So much to pay attention to: intricate interstellar politics, internecine conflict, and shaking up of assumptions of identity. I confess sometimes I start with an idea of who/what a character presents as only to keep revising until it really doesn‘t matter in the end: Leckie is a master of making you care about the person-AI, human, alien, or bot-until the current IRL gender issues are seen as BS f—kery!
1. Florence! Not from a book, but I'm going to Italy next summer!
2. Yes, if you're a science fiction fan. (the tagged title - back to the Imperial Radch)
3. Umm. . . Got two on the go - The baby on the fire escape and Islands of abandonment.
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Got the new book in the imperial radch universe. I ALSO got the audiobook. I just love Adjoa Andoh's voice and interpretation in this series. She is one of my favorite narrators. It is a wonderful treat to read the words while Adjoa wisperes in your ear
No2 in my #BookMail is the new novel from Ann Leckie. Set in the same galaxy as the Ancillary Justice trilogy, a missing translator sets 3 lives on a collision course that will affect galaxies. Enae is on a diplomatic assignment to track down a fugitive missing for 200yrs, Reet is told he has ties to a genetically mysterious family & Qven was created to be a Presgr translator. The paths of all 3 will collide with a ripple effect across worlds.
pickSo good. Leckie writes such smart science fiction (I really have to pay attention when I‘m reading her work), stories that interrogate what it means to be human and/or alien, the nature—past, present, future—of our relationship with technology, including sentient technology, existence, identity & more. I loved this return to the world of the Imperial Radch, this story focused on the Presgar, & I hope we get more soon. Excellent.
Spending Saturday afternoon with my matchy-matchy book and water bottle. A few chapters in and of course it‘s just as good as expected. Leckie‘s books are always fantastic.
Translation State | 
