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The Man Who Fell to Earth | Walter Tevis

#ReadingBracket2024

I kinda hate the bracket because I don‘t know how to compare books that are both excellent but completely different! Killers of a Certain Age was fun and entertaining and well written; the Man Who Fell to Earth was insightful and thought provoking and, of course, well written. How do I compare them head to head??

Anyway, Man Who Fell is the winner for April! #LitsySciFiBookClub

Deblovestoread It is hard! So many things come into play when I'm reading and each book provides a different experience. Mine picks usually have to do with emotion and how long I spend thinking of it after I'm done. 22h

willaful I don't do brackets for this very reason. Too complicated! 22h

Aims42 I gave up doing a bracket this year too for this exact same reason 😆 Now I just pick my favorite from the month and leave it at that. If at the end of the year I have a stand-alone favorite, great. If not, oh well 😇 19h

CSeydel @Deblovestoread Yes! I have to remember just to have fun with it. I just end up doing it by feel and trying not to take it too seriously 😂 19h

CSeydel @willaful @Aims42 Totally! 19h

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BookmarkTavern

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It‘s gonna by May! #BingoBoard time!

#BookSpin NetGalley read, #DoubleSpin The Grace of Kings

#Roll10 The Kitchen God‘s Wife, Beasts made of Night, The Grace of Kings

#PratchettPosse Eric

#AuldLangSpine Pandora‘s Jar, Hester

#ClassicLSFBC Snow Crash

#LitsySciFiBookClub The Three Body Problem

#SeasonalCozies Fudge & Jury

#QueerBC Darius the Great Is Not Okay

Trixie Belden Read The Red Trailer Mystery

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TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! Looks fabulous!! 1d

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Three-Body Problem | Cixin Liu

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The Three-Body Problem is the winner for May's #LitsySciFiBookClub selection. My local library has this available. Kindle price is $11.99 and used from $7.15 on Amazon. I noticed one slightly loved copy on ebay for .99 + 4.87 shipping.

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#BuddyRead

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Karisimo

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April Report! It was a busy school month, so I leaned a little heavier on MG reads. But there were two chunksters too!

6 Bingos
21 books
11 Middle Grade
1 YA
2 NonFiction
4 Graphic novels
9 audiobooks
✅ #Bookspin
✅ #Doublespin
✅ #AuthorAMonth
✅ #Litsyscifibookclub

@thearomaofbooks

BarbaraJean Six bingos!! 🎉🎉 2d

TheAromaofBooks Yay!! Fabulous month!!! 2d

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Happy May! Here are a few of the books I have on the horizon for May. Some are for challenges, some I just want to read. Have a great month!

#SeriesLove2024 @Andrew65 @ClassicSFBC @RamsFan1963 #LitsySciFiBookClub #AuthorAMonth #TwinPeaksReadingChallenge @Yuki_Onna #LitsyLove #LitsyLoveReads @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @TieDyeDude @Read4life #ReadYourKindle @CBee @Soubhiville

TracyReadsBooks That‘s a great lineup! Station Eleven is fantastic. I really enjoyed The Familiar. The Three-Body Problem is good and Snow Crash is also excellent (particularly if you like cyberpunk). Lots of fun reading ahead for you! (edited) 3d

CBee I loved Station Eleven! 3d

Soubhiville Station eleven and snow crash are both faves of mine! Enjoy. 😊 3d

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Decalino Wow, May looks great! Station Eleven, Snow Crash and The Three Body Problem are all really amazing books. 3d

Lesliereadsalot Station Eleven is so good! Also the Three Body Problem will make you want to read the two other books in the trilogy (just finished all 3) 3d

Laughterhp I just finished The Familiar last night and I loved it! It‘s so different from her other works. 3d

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The Calculating Stars: A Lady Astronaut Novel | Mary Robinette Kowal

I hope everyone enjoyed the April selection for #LitsySciFiBookClub Discussion is now open. I have a few questions to get us started. However, feel free to talk about anything. Even though the setting was 75+ years ago, a lot of issues are still relevant today.

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CatLass007 I think that Elma got an education when she made friends with Black people. She was unaware of her own racism until that time and she wasn‘t perfect when she tried not to be racist, but she made every effort to make change in her behavior. 5d

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CatLass007 I‘m not convinced that this was accurate in the way it treated minorities. This was pretty tame. People in the South are pretty blatant about their racism while northerners try to hide it but it‘s definitely still there. Although the fact that only whites were rescued for some time speaks volumes. 5d

Larkken I‘m still working my way through this book, but I like how Elma constantly tries to confront her own biases. She seems like a worthy heroine, and I love the mutual respect in marriage being shown throughout the book. Fairly cozy in its way - but I can‘t tell if that tone is jarring to me given the subject matter? I think the book does tone down the racism that I think would have been present a bit weirdly. 5d

Ruthiella While I enjoyed the story and found it an entertaining read, Elma felt a little too perfect to me and her relationship with her husband as well. I think probably the racism and sexism were even worse than portrayed in this book. At the back of the edition I read, Kowal gave sources for the attitudes expressed in the novel about how women weren‘t fit to be astronauts or pilots from our real history. 5d

kwmg40 I agree with @Ruthiella that Elma seemed a bit too perfect to be completely relatable. As for the racism and sexism, I can believe that they existed and were likely worse than depicted. I'm an Asian-Canadian woman who has studied and worked in tech since the 80's and have told stories to my daughters that made them say, “He actually said that to you? And didn't get fired on the spot?“ Friends and colleagues have relayed even worse incidents. 4d

kwmg40 But things have definitely gotten better, though there's still a long way to go. My daughters' reactions indicate that some of the behaviour would be considered completely unacceptable these days. The biggest change I observe at my tech company is that more of my male colleagues are taking an equal share in the parenting, which means they too are concerned about work-life balance and such issues. 4d

TheSpineView @kwmg40 I agree with both of you also. Elma was a bit too perfect. 4d

TheSpineView @kwmg40 Things have gotten better. For example, I didn't go the CPA route when I finished school. Back in the day it was the good old boys club. Women didn't ever make partner and were just glorified bookkeepers. I ended up being a CMA and worked most of my career in manufacturing. Don't regret it. Still need to see more Women and minorities in upper level positions. 4d

kwmg40 @TheSpineView I agree about more women and minorities in upper-level positions. I consider the company I work for quite progressive but there are still few women in the highest positions. 4d

julesG I think Elma was a bit too perfect, whereas racism and sexism were a bit tame. I don't think much would have changed had Elma had more flaws or there been a more 'accurate' depiction of racism and sexism. 3d

BookmarkTavern I haven‘t finished it yet, but the discrimination feels really tame. That might just be because I‘m comparing that in tone to the gut punch of the initial disaster. 3d

Karisimo I felt that the author did well to acknowledge discrimination issues without it taking over the story and being only about that. 1d

Larkken Off topic, but the rocket innuendos feel like they're CONSTANT. I mean, bully for them and their healthy sex life, but jeez. 1d

TheSpineView @Larkken IK! 22h

TheSpineView @Karisimo yes 👍 22h

TheSpineView @BookmarkTavern I agree. It must have been a 100 times worse 22h

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The Calculating Stars: A Lady Astronaut Novel | Mary Robinette Kowal

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This is my second book finished for the #AwesomeApril readathon hosted by @Andrew65

I reread this book for #LitsySciFiBookClub and loved it just as much this time around. The MC, Elma York, has this charisma about her that draws you in. She fought many uphill battles to reach her dream of becoming an astronaut and did it with a dignity we rarely see today. 5⭐️

TheSpineView #Litsylove #LitsyLoveReads @Read4life @TieDyeDude @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks 5d

Andrew65 Excellent 👏👏👏 This one has good reviews. 5d

TheSpineView @Andrew65 🤩 5d

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Readathon: Occasional List : Geleentheidslys | Gauteng (South Africa). Education Media Service

#ReadAway2024 @Andrew65 @DieAReader @GHABI4ROSES

I finished The Calculating Stars yesterday. Which I reread for #LitsySciFiBookClub. I also started The Siren.

Andrew65 Brilliant 👏👏👏 5d

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Lesliereadsalot

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Death‘s End, book 3 of the Three-Body Problem trilogy.

#weekendreads. @rachelsbrittain

Karisimo Have you watched the tv show? I‘m wondering if the story is true to the book? 7d

Lesliereadsalot The tv show is very true to the first book although a bit of the tv show takes place in the second book. The second book and third book go really interesting places so the next season of the tv show should be great. I loved the first season and watched the whole thing over two days! @Karisimo 6d

Karisimo Thanks @Lesliereadsalot ! We just watched the first season and now the I‘m planning to read the first book for #litsyscifibookclub in May. 6d

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The Three-Body Problem | Cixin Liu

The Three-Body Problem is the winner for May's #LitsySciFiBookClub selection. My local library has this available. Kindle price is $11.99 and used from $7.15 on Amazon. I noticed one slightly loved copy on ebay for .99 + 4.87 shipping.

Open discussion for April's selection, The Calculating Stars, will being in a couple of days.

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Ruthiella I knew it! 😄 1w

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julesG This comes as no surprise. 😀 1w

CatLass007 Great! Thank you. 1w

Lesliereadsalot Such an imaginative book and a great read. 1w

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