@CiaraNi These books were some of my favorites, I’ve given them as gifts.
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@CiaraNi @petros @radundtat If you’re ever in the mood for spaceships, try her “Wayfarers” books, starting with “The Long Way To A Small Angry Planet”. Again, optimistic and full of community, I love them.
(Edited to correct the book’s title)
@baz @petros @radundtat Sounds good - I am already looking forward to reading more by her. Optimistic and full of community - that's it. Thanks for the tip.
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@CiaraNi Whenever I visit a new city, I try to find a bookshop and buy something as a souvenir. This is the book I chose at Powell's City of Books in Portland, Oregon. It's wonderful.
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@CiaraNi Been waiting to get my hands on that! Big fan of her other books, highly recommended if you haven't read them yet!
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@CiaraNi Been waiting to get my hands on that! Big fan of her other books, highly recommended if you haven't read them yet!
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@CiaraNi I feel like that quote is somehow controversial even though it really shouldn't be.
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@CiaraNi Whenever I visit a new city, I try to find a bookshop and buy something as a souvenir. This is the book I chose at Powell's City of Books in Portland, Oregon. It's wonderful.
Powells is indeed great. I'm visiting Portland again in October and that is high on the agenda.
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@CiaraNi A personal favourite!
@TashTaylor It's gone straight on to my favourite list too! I look forward to reading more by her.
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@CiaraNi beautiful book!
@ownlife Agreed. It really is.
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@CiaraNi Whenever I visit a new city, I try to find a bookshop and buy something as a souvenir. This is the book I chose at Powell's City of Books in Portland, Oregon. It's wonderful.
@stepschwarz Ah, snap! I do that too - a book as a souvenir, and then years and decades later, I can always remember where I bought it. That bookshop sounds good.
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@CiaraNi Been waiting to get my hands on that! Big fan of her other books, highly recommended if you haven't read them yet!
@alex_oe It's the first one I've read of hers. Good to hear the others are great too - I am already looking forward to the next one.
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@CiaraNi I feel like that quote is somehow controversial even though it really shouldn't be.
@benjaminlj That's an interesting observation. Yes.
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“We don’t have to fall into the same category to be of equal value.”
“We’re all just trying to be comfortable, and well fed, and unafraid.”
“There’s just some things in the universe that are better left un-fucked-with.”
So many Becky Chambers sentences getting jotted down in my reader's notebook. Some of them should feel twee, but don't, which says something about both the world she's written and the world we're living in.
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@CiaraNi yes! Fantastic book by a fantastic author! Do try her other stuff. I won’t spoil it, but there is a paragraph in the last wayfarers book where aliens are discussing cheese and I have never laughed so hard.
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“We don’t have to fall into the same category to be of equal value.”
“We’re all just trying to be comfortable, and well fed, and unafraid.”
“There’s just some things in the universe that are better left un-fucked-with.”
So many Becky Chambers sentences getting jotted down in my reader's notebook. Some of them should feel twee, but don't, which says something about both the world she's written and the world we're living in.
@CiaraNi Becky Chambers - a gospel for our times
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@CiaraNi This is such a good book
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@CiaraNi read this book this winter after stumbling across it at the book store. Really fun read!
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@CiaraNi Looks really interesting. The lists this book is on at #bookwyrm made me more curious to read it: Books where people are nice to each other, Systems-Flipping Fiction, Solarpunk, Ecosocialism, Degrowth etc. I never read fiction but this might be for me. https://bookwyrm.social/book/102058/s/a-psalm-for-the-wild-built
