I really want ART to be played by David Hewlett.

I can see that.

I had a complete and total mental block about who could possibly be cast to play Murderbot. Just refused to think about it. I'm ok with Skarsgard, though, at least until I can see it on screen. Then I will judge.

this is an amazing story: [link]

Wow, what a dumbass.

Well, I've never DNF'd an Alexis Hall before but I truly don't think I can make it to end end of his latest. 25% in and I don't care what happens to either MC, and I *hate* the amnesia plot.

Did you stick with it? I never did warm to the amnesia business (I can kind of see why “Overboard but Goldie Hawn is faking it” might have seemed like a good idea in the abstract but I think it’s just too, I don’t know, icky. I spent the first half of the book dreading that our narrator would also turn out to be awful. But I eventually did get invested in the characters and their romance, and immediately listened to the audiobook which I enjoyed much more (since I already liked the characters when it started, presumably). Was halfway through that listen before I understood that it’s labeled as “part of Material World” because of Boyfriend Material et al, not because of, I don’t even know, something about bathroom fixtures or capitalism?

I seem to run hot and cold on Alexis Hall. I looovvved The Affair of the Mysterious Letter, but then the Kate Kane books didn’t grab me (possibly I am over saturated with urban fantasy detectives) and then they fell off my radar for a while. Not that I have actively disliked any, just some I loved and some I didn’t love as much and some I have looked at the titles/covers/descriptions and couldn’t tell if I would like them. Just finishing up Mortal Follies and I love the premise/setting but am not very invested in the MCs or romance and trying to figure out what that tells me. If anything.

Did you stick with it?

I did not - pretty much abandoned it as soon as I posted that and haven't had any desire to go back. AH has been diminishing returns for me since Rosaline Palmer, more or less. (I did really love Husband Material, but all of his other recent ones have been somewhere on a spectrum from Meh to Nope.)

Fair enough. I keep poking at what I did and didn't like about it, for some reason, and having someone else's reactions to consider seems helpful.

Humble Bundle currently has 38 of the Discworld books in its current bundle (for the Kobo reader) for $18 or more: [link] .

For the Bujold fans, there's a new Penric & Desdemona novella out, called Demon Daughter.

Thanks for the info Susan, I wouldn’t have known otherwise! I feel like Amazon is shockingly bad at telling me “hey there’s a new book in that series you like” or even having a way to sign up to tell me that.

I feel like Amazon is shockingly bad at telling me “hey there’s a new book in that series you like” or even having a way to sign up to tell me that.

The team that would have pushed this feature out was laid off exactly one year ago today. (RIP Comixology...)