Found this one under a pile and pushed on to finish it. It's a bit less structured than I imagined, and doesn't really go much into the mechanics of why screws work better than other devices. I finished wanting more from this short book.
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Technical nonfiction and spec fiction. She/her. Melbourne, Australia. Generation X. Admin of Outside of a Dog. BDFL of Hometown (Mastodon) instance Old Mermaid Town (@futzle@old.mermaid.town). Avatar image is of a book that my dog tried to put on their inside.
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Deborah Pickett finished reading One Good Turn by Witold Rybczynski
Found this one under a pile and pushed on to finish it. It's a bit less structured than I imagined, and doesn't really go much into the mechanics of why screws work better than other devices. I finished wanting more from this short book.
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Deborah Pickett rated A Prayer for the Crown-Shy: 3 stars
A Prayer for the Crown-Shy by Becky Chambers (Monk and Robot, #2)
After touring the rural areas of Panga, Sibling Dex (a Tea Monk of some renown) and Mosscap (a robot sent …
Deborah Pickett finished reading A Prayer for the Crown-Shy by Becky Chambers (Monk and Robot, #2)
After touring the rural areas of Panga, Sibling Dex (a Tea Monk of some renown) …
Well, that ended suddenly.
I learned from the acknowledgments that Chambers wrote these two books during the early pandemic. I have a sinking feeling that they were a product of the zeitgeist of social distancing and lockdowns and that the opportunity to complete this story may now have passed.
Deborah Pickett started reading A Prayer for the Crown-Shy by Becky Chambers (Monk and Robot, #2)
A Prayer for the Crown-Shy by Becky Chambers (Monk and Robot, #2)
After touring the rural areas of Panga, Sibling Dex (a Tea Monk of some renown) and Mosscap (a robot sent …
Deborah Pickett rated A Psalm for the Wild-Built: 4 stars
A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers (Monk and Robot, #1)
It's been centuries since the robots of Panga gained self-awareness and laid down their tools; centuries since they wandered, en …
Deborah Pickett finished reading A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers (Monk and Robot, #1)
It's been centuries since the robots of Panga gained self-awareness and laid down their tools; …
Chambers is easy to read, and fortunately this one is not as Californian as some of her prior work. A Psalm for the Wild-Built is short, and clearly just the first episode in the Monk and Robot series.
I do wish that she had an editor, though, or at least a proofreader. Sometimes Chambers uses a word which I can only conclude is a malapropism—In this book, "erstwhile" (where I think she meant "estimable"? It's hard to know). Also one sentence which uses "they" pronouns for Mosscap, who is referred to throughout with "it".
Chambers is easy to read, and fortunately this one is not as Californian as some of her prior work. A Psalm for the Wild-Built is short, and clearly just the first episode in the Monk and Robot series.
I do wish that she had an editor, though, or at least a proofreader. Sometimes Chambers uses a word which I can only conclude is a malapropism—In this book, "erstwhile" (where I think she meant "estimable"? It's hard to know). Also one sentence which uses "they" pronouns for Mosscap, who is referred to throughout with "it".
Deborah Pickett started reading A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers (Monk and Robot, #1)
It's been centuries since the robots of Panga gained self-awareness and laid down their tools; …
Need some cosy words.
Deborah Pickett rated Before the Coffee Gets Cold: 3 stars
Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a café which has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more …
Deborah Pickett finished reading Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a café which has been serving …
This was fine. I didn't really get emotionally attached to any of the characters, and the premise was getting a bit worn by the end.
This was fine. I didn't really get emotionally attached to any of the characters, and the premise was getting a bit worn by the end.
Deborah Pickett finished reading Crocheting Adventures with Hyperbolic Planes by Daina Taimina
This richly illustrated book discusses non-Euclidean geometry and the hyperbolic plane in an accessible way. …
This got buried, I have no idea which pile it's in, haven't seen it for months.
This got buried, I have no idea which pile it's in, haven't seen it for months.
Deborah Pickett wants to read Gardens of the sun by Paul J. McAuley
Borrowed from Mum in case I bomb out on Before the Coffee Gets Cold.
Deborah Pickett started reading Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a café which has been serving …
Another small translated-from-Japanese novel Mum loaned me. It’s a riff on the time travel genre. Not sold on the concept yet, and the writing is merely OK.
Deborah Pickett rated Convenience Store Woman: 2 stars
Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata
Keiko Furukura had always been considered a strange child, and her parents always worried how she would get on in …