Weir seems to have one character voice, so his POV characters sound exactly the same from book to book. If you can get past that, Hail Mary is fun, if a bit too long.

Yes, I enjoyed the science fun of Hail Mary, but some sections could have been far more concise.

Also excellent, is Rob Inglis reading The Hobbit and all of The Lord of the Rings. Also good for very long trips and for re-reading in troubled times.

I just recently started Axiom's End and so far I'm really enjoying it, but I'm having some difficulty dealing with the fact that this is an AU period piece set in *2007*. (My assumption that the year is significant because it puts the existance of smartphones and the 2008 financial crash in the book's near-future, but mostly there is no way 2007 was long enough ago to be a setting for a sci-fi AU.)

That’s way too specific and recent. I am intrigued but bewildered

Also checking for narrators y’all have mentioned. Adjoa Andoh, the best part of Bridgerton, is fantastic with Pride and Prejudice and also does Ann Leckie’s books, as well as many books I don’t know but am now tempted to listen to…

I am halfway through The Three Body Problem, and I like it. The characters and their stories, as we're getting them, are interesting to me, and the way they are unfolding the mystery of what's going is keeping my attention.

I also have seven books on deck from the library... the holds didn't quite space out the way I had anticipated. That's OK!

Oh, well, and I started Fifth Business, too, but TTBP is due on Friday, so I am hopping to it. No renewals left.

I watched the series on Netflix and loved it. The book is on my too-long TBR list.

Jeff Hays is a phenomenal audiobook narrator. I'm just listening to Dungeon Crawler Carl series but he has narrated other books. It looks like mostly he has done LitRPG and fantasy books but he is so good. Sometimes his female characters sound too much alike but the main characters are all very distinctive and I forget that he is Mordecai, Carl, Donut and Katia.

Finished Three Body Problem -- thumbs up. I will probably get the next one, too. For whatever reason, I thought the author was a woman until I saw his picture at the very end. Random facts.

I started in on The Crying of Lot 49, but I don't have the fortitude to pay attention to that right now. It may also just not be my thing.

Now I've cracked open the one with Stairs in the title. City of Stairs? That's feeling more my speed right now. I didn't feel like going back to Fifth Business just yet.

I really liked the City of Stairs and its sequels. For some reason it felt very post-WWII for me. Lots of espionage and geopolitical upheaval in the aftermath of war.