Elizabeth Culmer (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
edenfalling) wrote2018-11-03 10:23 pm
edenfalling) wrote2018-11-03 10:23 pm
Entry tags:
book list, August, September, and October 2018
It's time for the continuing adventures of Liz and her reading list! These are the books I read in August through October, 2018. Click on the cuts for summaries and reactions. I reserve the right to spoil all hell out of any book if spoilery bits are what I feel like talking about.
Rogue Protocol, by Martha Wells
-----Murderbot Diaries #3, in which Murderbot goes on a quest to uncover more evidence against GrayCris, the corporation responsible for the disaster in All Systems Red, and continues to develop as a person while being confused and unhappy about almost every step of that process. ♥
Exit Strategy, by Martha Wells
-----Murderbot Diaries #4, in which Murderbot realizes that its actions have accidentally contributed to Mensah being kidnapped and held hostage by GrayCris, and goes on a high-risk rescue mission. Somehow this results in a happy... not ending, exactly, but resting place while Murderbot takes some time to process the realization that it is a person and has emotions (and friends), and start figuring out what it wants to do next. ♥ I love this series so much, and apparently Wells is in process of writing a traditional novel about Murderbot's next adventures. I can't wait!
Annnnnnnd... I didn't read any other books qua books, though I did read a metric shit-ton of fanfic, plus a lot of magazine and newspaper articles, a couple short-story ebooks by Diane Duane, and two-thirds of my State and Local Government textbook.
Also I listened to 75% of a 36-lecture Great Courses series on the Italian Renaissance, and the entirety of a 24-lecture Great Courses series on the Etruscans. So it's not like I've been a slug or something. I have just been directing my attention and efforts in other directions. *shrug*
Rogue Protocol, by Martha Wells
-----Murderbot Diaries #3, in which Murderbot goes on a quest to uncover more evidence against GrayCris, the corporation responsible for the disaster in All Systems Red, and continues to develop as a person while being confused and unhappy about almost every step of that process. ♥
Exit Strategy, by Martha Wells
-----Murderbot Diaries #4, in which Murderbot realizes that its actions have accidentally contributed to Mensah being kidnapped and held hostage by GrayCris, and goes on a high-risk rescue mission. Somehow this results in a happy... not ending, exactly, but resting place while Murderbot takes some time to process the realization that it is a person and has emotions (and friends), and start figuring out what it wants to do next. ♥ I love this series so much, and apparently Wells is in process of writing a traditional novel about Murderbot's next adventures. I can't wait!
Annnnnnnd... I didn't read any other books qua books, though I did read a metric shit-ton of fanfic, plus a lot of magazine and newspaper articles, a couple short-story ebooks by Diane Duane, and two-thirds of my State and Local Government textbook.
Also I listened to 75% of a 36-lecture Great Courses series on the Italian Renaissance, and the entirety of a 24-lecture Great Courses series on the Etruscans. So it's not like I've been a slug or something. I have just been directing my attention and efforts in other directions. *shrug*