Fugitive Telemetry: Murderbot + murder mystery, is it my birthday? Love.

I ended up listening to most of Murderbot in the last week or so (my initial plan from ages ago to listen to all of it bit by bit while I did chores did not work out mainly because I kept finding that the chores distracted me too much from the story, so I have been listening on my breaks recently and I have to say there is something very satisfying about listening to Murderbot talk about watching media while it does whatever tasks in between doing my tasks) and I kinda wish I had known that Fugitive Telemetry takes place before Network Effect. Not that that is a problem, exactly, but next time (and I'm pretty sure there will be a next time before too long) I will try chronological order

Now, of course, I just want to curl up and watch Sanctuary Moon.

I'm reading this thriller by Alyssa Cole, and it's good, but the back says "Rear Window meets Get Out" and I just feel like that is too much information! Like, I don't think the plot is exactly Get Out, but I'm pretty sure now I know what it is, which is the part that's supposed to be suspenseful, you know?

Oh, I hate when blurbs do that!

I signed up for a "one book a week" club at work to see if external pressure would help me start reading actual books again, and it seems to be working. I made it through Fugitive Telemetry and Boyfriend Material and enjoyed them both. Then I read Bonds of Brass because the author supposedly was inspired by Finn/Poe. Perhaps I would have enjoyed the book more if I had gone into it without expectations, but I didn't get any Finn/Poe feels from it and felt misled. I probably should have read Renay's review first.

Perhaps I would have enjoyed the book more if I had gone into it without expectations, but I didn't get any Finn/Poe feels from it and felt misled.

BOOOOO. That's disappointing.

I have Boyfriend Material on my Kindle. I'll get to it...at some point.

I have a bunch of books on my reader waiting for me to get to them. Since I no longer spend significant time on my commute (yay new neighborhood), I don't get to them as quickly as I once did. I buy a number from the Smart Bitches daily sale listing, and sometimes they're disappointing, but a lot of them I enjoy enough to finish and some ... sigh ... get me hooked on another writer.

I’ve had a hard time finishing books. But I also have book club Sunday and have only read like 10% of it so far.

And also one of the books I DNF’d was Bomds of Brass.

I have Boyfriend Material on my Kindle. I'll get to it...at some point.

If you are into audiobooks, I cannot recommend the audio version highly enough. It is narrated PERFECTLY.

Ooh, good to know! Also have that in my TBR but only as a sample so switching to audiobook might work out well for me

I just finished A Desolation Called Peace and dear lord I remember NOTHING from A Memory Called Empire but the good news is that Desolation seems to work fine as a standalone novel. One of these days I will have to go back and read them both one after the other and no doubt experience that universe very differently.