The rules are answer the questions below and share a link to your blog in the comments section of Sam’s blog.
What are you currently reading?
What did you recently finish reading?
What do you think you will read next?
Hello
I hope everyone is having a good week so far. Reading is still going well so far this month so I am hoping to make a serious dent in my TBR pile and Goodreads Challenge.
What I am Currently Reading
I started this yesterday and so far I am really enjoying it.
What I have Recently Finished Reading
I can’t quite believe I managed to finish three books in a week but reading shorter books is really helping my pace.
What I Think I will Read Next
Hopefully I will start reading one of these this week.
Please drop me a comment with your WWW Wednesday and I will head over for a visit.
It has a dark past – one in which a number of humans were killed. A past that caused it to christen itself “Murderbot”. But it has only vague memories of the massacre that spawned that title, and it wants to know more.
Teaming up with a Research Transport vessel named ART (you don’t want to know what the “A” stands for), Murderbot heads to the mining facility where it went rogue.
What it discovers will forever change the way it thinks…
Review
Murderbot needs answers, it knows it has a dark past and wants to know why the horrors happened. More importantly Murderbot wants to know whether the deaths were its fault or because of another reason. To find the answers, Murderbot needs to get to the place where the massacre happened and this is why Murderbot is on a ship travelling through space.
The spaceship transport that Murderbot is on, is an artificial intelligence that Murderbot nicknames ART, which is short for something far ruder. Murderbot does not trust ART straightaway and they definitely have a few issues when they first really meet but gradually you can see how their friendship develops and they start to trust each other. This leads to ART helping Murderbot to act and behave more human and less like a sec unit.
Once they get to their destination ART suggests that Murderbot takes a job as a security consultant for a group of humans. This way Murderbot has the perfect excuse to investigate from his past which has been hidden from the public. But as we discovered in All Systems Red, when humans need help Murderbot can’t help but help.
I really enjoyed following Murderbot’s investigation and found it rather sad at times. Murderbot clearly has feelings even though it tries to hide the fact and it is because of these feelings it wants to find out about its past. I also loved the interaction between Murderbot and ART. They don’t realise it and would both deny it if somebody pointed it out but they learn from each other and have a really good friendship.
For such a short read this book really packs a punch and I read it in one sitting. I am absolutely loving this series so far and can’t wait to read the next book in the series. I give this book 5 out of 5 Dragons.
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About the author
Martha Wells has been an SF/F writer since her first fantasy novel was published in 1993, and her work includes The Books of the Raksura series, The Death of the Necromancer, the Fall of Ile-Rien trilogy, The Murderbot Diaries series, media tie-ins for Star Wars, Stargate: Atlantis, and Magic: the Gathering, as well as short fiction, YA novels, and non-fiction. She has won a Nebula Award, two Hugo Awards, two Locus Awards, and her work has appeared on the Philip K. Dick Award ballot, the BSFA Award ballot, the USA Today Bestseller List, and the New York Times Bestseller List. Her books have been published in eighteen languages.
Goodreads Monday is now hosted by Budget Tales Book Club. All you have to do is show off a book from your TBR that you’re looking forward to reading.
Hello!
I hope everyone has had a good Monday so far.
My chosen book this week is by another new author for me, Sir Walter Scott.
Scott’s magnificent historical romance Rob Roy is set against the background of the 1715 Jacobite Rising
In the foreground of the novel we meet young Francis Osbaldistone, who, following a quarrel with his father, has been banished to join his feckless cousins on the Northumbrian estate of Sir Hildebrand Osbaldistone. When Frank discovers that his treacherous cousin Rashleigh, a Jacobite intruder, has designs on beautiful Diana Vernon, and is scheming to bring about the financial ruin of the family, Francis travels to Scotland to enlist the help of the outlaw Rob Roy MacGregor.
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Please drop me a comment if you have taken part in Goodreads Monday and I will head over for a visit.
My chosen poem this week is by a new poet for me and I chose it because it made me laugh.
Astrophysics Lesson
I took an orange and a plum
To demonstrate the Earth and Sun;
held in place by gravity -
Our little planet, you and me.
I grabbed some grapes for all the stars
And cast them out so wide and far;
Distant suns and foreign moons
In all four corners of the room.
The wonders of the galaxy
Spread out before class 2BT.
'Where did they come from?' someone cried;
'From the fruit bowl' I replied.
Ade Hall
My chosen quote for this week is by the American author, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher and lecturer Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910) who was known by his pen name Mark Twain.
“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”
The rules are answer the questions below and share a link to your blog in the comments section of Sam’s blog.
What are you currently reading?
What did you recently finish reading?
What do you think you will read next?
Hello!
I hope everyone is having a good week so far. I have decided that for September I am going to read books that are 300 pages or less because I have so many on TBR pile at the moment.
What I am Currently Reading
I actually started these two books today. The reason I started Cliff’s Descent was because I went to get new tyres for my car and forgot to bring a book so I had to use the Kindle app on my phone. I have almost finished The Winter Ghosts because I have not been able to put it down today.
What I have Recently Finished Reading
I had forgotten just how good Mary Higgins Clark is because I could not put Remember Me down, it was a fantastic read.
What I Think I will Read Next
These are just some of my short books on the TBR pile. Hopefully I will manage quite a few this month.
Please drop me a comment with your WWW Wednesday and I will head over for a visit.
In recent weeks I have been building up my Etsy shop or should I say Lyra’s Etsy shop and we now have some special Halloween themed book boxes. I also have a special discount code for my blog readers. If you use the code BOOKDRAGON10 at the checkout it will get you 10% off your purchase.
– Brand new paperback book (genre of your choice) – Halloween bag – Halloween chocolate – Halloween bookmark – Hot Chocolate – Coffee bag – Tea bag – Lotus biscuit – Border biscuits – Popcorn
– Brand new paperback book (genre of your choice) – Halloween bag – Halloween bookmark – Coffee bag – Tea bag – Vegan Popcorn – Nomo vegan chocolate bar – Candy Kittens Wild Strawberry Vegan Gourmet Sweets
There are more products in the pipeline and they will be added over the next few weeks.
I hope everyone is having a good start to September so far.
My chosen poem this week is by William Wordsworth.
Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802
Earth has not anything to show more fair:
Dull would he be of soul who could pass by
A sight so touching in its majesty:
This City now doth, like a garment, wear
The beauty of the morning; silent, bare,
Ships, towers, domes, theatres, and temples lie
Open unto the fields, and to the sky;
All bright and glittering in the smokeless air,
Never did sun more beautifully steep
In his first splendour, valley, rock, or hill;
Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep!
The river glideth at his own sweet will;
Dear God! the very houses seem asleep;
And all that mighty heart is lying still!
William Worsdworth
Happy Reading
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