Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

new aspirational character alert: mad catlady with speedboat and collection of vintage pornography

A Prayer for the Crown-Shy by Becky Chambers

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…and yes, she drives that boat too fast and befriends a robot! What else could I need? Once again, I am utterly in love with the newest Becky Chambers. A Prayer for the Crown-Shy, a much awaited sequel to A Psalm for the Wild-Built, was calling my name from the second that I finished the first entry. I always need to point this out, but if this isn’t the place to do then what is; I would not have found myself in the cozy companionship […]

Wayfarer’s Series #3 and 4

Record of a Spaceborn Few by Becky Chambers

The Galaxy and the Ground Within by Becky Chambers

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Stars, this series was so good. Record of a Spaceborn Few is my favorite book of the series, although I did love them all. I cannot recommend them highly enough – but this third book was my favorite. The Wayfarer’s series presents the most humane version of a Universe in which humans have finally shuffled off their earthly coils and set sail for the Great Beyond. In books 1 and 2, the reasons for doing so are hinted at (climate crises, war, etc) and there is […]

Hope for the future

A Pslam For The Wild Built by Becky Chambers

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Would you like a soothing balm for your mind right now? Dive into another charming book by Becky Chambers – the first in the Monk and Robot series. In this novel, the world has moved past the rise of sentient robots. While machines were once used for all sorts of labor, and the environment was neglected, the world that we are dropped into in this series has moved past that sort of behavior. Robots and humans live separately, and both do their best to avoid […]

Wayfarer’s Series #1 and 2

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

A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers

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I loved To Be Taught, If Fortunate, and I am excited to begin the Wayfarer’s series. I am reviewing books 1 and 2 here,  though I am pausing the series for a bit because I need to shuffle my TBR due to library books being due – plus, I have found that while I really enjoy the world that Chambers has built with this series, I don’t mind stepping out of it for a moment to read something else.  I also really want to share this […]

“If trying something new was valid, then keeping something old was, too…. Life meant death, always. But by the same token, death meant life.”

Record of a Spaceborn Few by Becky Chambers

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Becky Chambers continues to keep me in awe of her writing.  Record of a Spaceborn Few is the third book in the “Wayfarer Series”.  It tangentially ties into the first book as one of the main characters, Tessa Santoso, is sister to Captain Ashby Santoso, of the spaceship Wayfarer, in A Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet.  This book is centered on The Exodus Fleet, the last humans to leave Earth when the environment collapsed hundreds of years ago.  They wandered for generations until […]

What is space to you?

To Be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky Chambers

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This is very much my preferred type of science fiction – give me more character development and philosophical musings, and less dramatic space wars. If you are someone who enjoys science fiction generally, but finds yourself loving the middle act scene setting and sort of skimming the inevitable third act fight scenes, this book is for you, too. I have not had the pleasure of reading Becky Chambers’ Wayaferers series – and now these books are on my library queue, eagerly awaited. Chambers gives us […]



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