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CBR15 Bingo: On the Road

A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers

A Prayer for the Crown-Shy by Becky Chambers

September 18, 2023 by Malin 3 Comments

4.5 stars CBR15 Bingo: On the Road On a moon, (that seems quite like Earth in many respects) called Panga, people live peacefully together in harmonious small communities. There are remnants of a previous industrial age, and it’s suggested that there was a near apocalypse way back when, but humanity improved and started thinking about what was better for their environment, possibly helped by the exodus of their robots. At some point, in the distant past, many generations ago, the robots that had been working […]

Dual Narratives That Come Full Circle

A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers

September 5, 2023 by Tracy Leave a Comment

I mentioned at the end of my review of The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet that I was disappointed the rest of the Wayfarers books wouldn’t be about the crew of the Wayfarer. That disappointment disappeared immediately upon starting A Closed and Common Orbit. The book starts very soon after the end of the previous book. The AI Lovelace is in a new (and illegal) body kit and is traveling with Pepper to Pepper and Blue’s home on Port Coriol. Lovelace, who soon […]

Cool Characters and Fantastic World-Building

The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers

August 31, 2023 by Tracy Leave a Comment

What a lovely book. Becky Chambers came across my radar because so many Cannonballers have reviewed her books, and I’m glad I finally got around to reading them. The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet is bookended by the POV of Rosemary Harper, a human woman from Mars who has joined the crew of the spaceship Wayfarer as a clerk for the captain. The ship creates wormholes to aid in space travel. However, the POVs throughout the novel shift among the rest of the […]

“What if it’s enough to just be…Us.”

A Prayer for the Crown-Shy by Becky Chambers

March 17, 2023 by anana 1 Comment

The previous book in the Monk and Robot series by Becky Chambers was one of the first books I read and reviewed in 2023, and I adored it. I immediately put a hold on the second (and so far, last) book in the series, A Prayer for the Crown-Shy. I eagerly waited for it to make it through my queue, fully confident that I would love it based on my feelings for the first book as well as my experiences with Chambers’ Wayfarers series. After […]

It is enough to exist in the world and marvel at it.

A Psalm for the Wild Built by Becky Chambers

March 11, 2023 by KimMiE" Leave a Comment

I had heard so many good things about this book that I decided to put a hold on it at my library back at the beginning of Bingo 2022. Like the characters in the novel, this book must have been on a journey, because I never heard from my library, and after Bingo, I forgot about it. In February 2023, a voice mail saying my hold book was ready for pick up left me slightly perplexed. Upon retrieving it, I found A Psalm for the […]

“It is enough to exist in the world and marvel at it”

A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers

February 2, 2023 by anana 4 Comments

I adored Becky Chambers’ The Wayfarers series, so when I found out that she had a newer series I jumped at the chance to put it in my Libby queue. While it took a while to work its way into my grubby hands (err e-reader), it actually ended up being the absolutely perfect book to read in January: A Psalm for the Wild-Built is a calm, sweet novella in the midst of the “new year, new you” advertisements being hurled my direction elsewhere. Sibling Dex […]

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