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Various interstellar travellers of different species are stranded in a hotel together for a few days when satellites are destroyed in an accident.

It took me a while at first trying to remember who was what species and their characteristics but once I got that sorted out, it was an enjoyable ride, if a little didactic in an “AUTHOR'S MESSAGE“ way at times. But I found myself on the edge of my seat during the medical emergency towards the end.

Another fairly quick choice for #readingbracket2024… Much as I loved Galaxy and it warmed my heart, the long and magical search for Lyra‘s father has a tight grip on me. The Secret Commonwealth might end up grabbing one of the bonus slots, too. In fact, I think the only reason it didn‘t get the top slot is that it ended!

Once again, Becky Chambers manages to make a disaster cozy and sweet. Five people of four different alien species are trapped in a small waystation for several days. They are forced to get to know one another and learn to understand one another‘s species. Despite early prejudices, they all become friends.

Yes, I‘m spending a lot of time in a bathrobe with a cat on my lap lately 😂 Chemo takes it out of you!

@ShyBookOwl
#FirstLineFridays

#coffeeandabook

Yes, yes I did go buy the whole series, since I just finished the latest published (next in May 2025!). I feel like it's too easy to associate sci fi with the coldness of space. The Wayfarers books hold such warmth, this latest is no exception, not that it's without friction. Interpersonal sharing and understanding, managing conflict, discussing gender and reproductive rights, touching on the harms of colonialism. Above all they make me happy. ❤️

When the sci-fi just elegantly summarizes a major problem of the modern world. 👌🏻

While I maintain my stance of 'you're never getting ME on a space ship", I think if my life were going to be on a vessel, having art everywhere would help. ?

Spending a relaxing birthday afternoon reading with my kitty Watney!

#thingsincommon - covers list previous author books

I am grasping at straws to connect my most recent reads!

This is the 4th book in the wayfarer series. It wasn‘t my favorite of the 4 books but still just as lovely. This one is set on a planet where people only visit when waiting. A bunch of different people/species are on this planet and stuck when all communications come down. And have to work together and deal with different issues.

Book #8 of the year: “The Galaxy, and the Ground Within” by Becky Chambers

This one was a gift. I liked the creativity of the creatures and the lack of a human-centered storyline. Several very different characters are brought together through unexpected circumstances. Over the course of 5 days they learn about each other, the diversity of the universe, and their own biases and areas of ignorance. It wasn‘t my favorite but it was easy and unique.

How can a book where almost nothing actually happens pull at your heart so much? Like, there were maybe five pages of action total, and I still ended up crying in the carport. I am so in love with these books and the magical everyday HopeCore that Becky Chambers writes.

It feels almost unfair to rate this only 3 stars because it‘s still leagues better than so many works in this realm but compared to the rest of the series I found it very meh.

Here are my March #Roll100 picks! I think I‘m most looking forward to the tagged book, but we‘ll see what I actually end up reading in March. 🤪

3/5⭐ As with the previous book in the series (Record of a Spaceborn Few), there are some interesting relationships and issues touched on, but ultimately the book feels more like the author's worldbuilding notes than anything else. #bookspin

It has been a very long time since I have read more than one book in a series and this year I have stumbled on 2 favorite series! Chambers is brilliant in the world she has created here and I love how there is always one character that bridges each book with another. The characters are richly drawn and each species is given creative care having a vivid look and culture. Truly love these books.

#weeklyforecast
Almost done with Stay With Me.
Still working on Warmth of Suns, taking it at about 25 pages a day, going to finish by end of the month. I got the tagged on audio from the library.
Hoping for a good week!

I love the worlds and characters that Becky Chambers creates. This is a lovely, quiet end to the series. It‘s about inclusivity and the beauty of diversity. It also gets you thinking hard about what and where home is and the significance of the ground you stand on.

In general, I don't think this book is as strong as the rest of the series but this scene in which aliens try to understand why humans eat cheese makes the book worthwhile all by itself.

I will read anything Becky Chambers writes... I love these books soooooo much!

#LetterG recs:
The Galaxy and the Ground Within by Becky Chambers
Get a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert
Good Enough by Kate Bowler and Jessica Richie
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer

#AlphabetGame @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

A charming and entertaining story about a group of aliens stranded together and how they learn about one another and themselves in the process.

This book completes my reading of the 6 2022 Hugo Best Novel nominees! I
#hugoawards #hugo2022

#BookSpinBingo @TheAromaofBooks

Loved this "bottle episode" version of the series. Much more focus on the cultures in the world that the other books built. My favorite of the series.

Wait, this is the end of the series?! NOOOO!!! OK, I understand that Chambers no doubt has other projects & other worlds to create, but I am a little sad there will be no more Wayfarers novels. Each one is like a warm hug from an old friend and this one is no exception. A Closed and Common Orbit remains my favorite, but they are all great, and this one was lovely too, & I'll gladly reread them all whenever I need some comfort & some good vibes.

All of this series tends toward the personal and slices of life over big meaningful events, but this is probably the most of all. I found it very restful and hopeful, as Chambers' work usually is.

And that's my sixth line (three verticals, two horizontals, one diagonal)! #BookSpinBingo

I will never be this successful again, I'm sure. 😆

Oh, I loved this so much! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Lovely character driven conclusion to the Wayfarer series. 3 strangers of different alien species are trapped on Gora, a nondescript planet that is a stopover for ships traveling between wormholes, when a technological failure makes travel temporarily unsafe. With nothing to do but wait, the strangers learn about each other‘s lives and cultures while enjoying the hospitality of the owner of the Five-Hop One-Stop and her precocious child.

I adore this universe so much. I don‘t necessarily wanna live in it, but I looove finding little differences and similarities with our world. I could read 100 books set here, connected or not. Chambers has such a beautiful writing style, and a wonderful way to describe her characters, you rly notice the complexity of each!
It dives into so many relevant issues like gender, war, ableism…It makes them accessible and helps you rly consider the sides.

#12Booksin2021

Actually, every book I read in September 2021 was a winner- it was a great reading month for me. But I‘m highlighting this title because I love the universe Becky Chambers has created in this series. It‘s not a perfect universe, but it is hopeful and a good antidote to doom and gloom fiction.

My #3rdBookOf2021 for #March is the last in The Wayfarers series by Becky Chambers. Every book she‘s written so far has been amazing, this was no exception. Pei, Ashby‘s lover & an Aeluon whose race forbids inter-species relationships, is stranded on Gora, an interstellar “truck stop” when it‘s gates are blown up. Forced to spend time with a group of unrelated species, they all learn that underneath, they all are very similar. #12BooksOf2021

#12Booksof2021

Here's my February pick.

@Andrew65

1️⃣ I made this small stuffie recently, whee
2️⃣ I learned this week that incense is no longer only for meditation &/or high schoolers who think they have covered up the smell of weed. I‘m intrigued; does anyone have a favorite I should try?
3️⃣ my home & family 🧣🏡👫🏻🦮
Oh! Also the tagged sweet, feel-good scifi novel. Chambers writes such homey slice-of-life space stuff! I need to do it in small doses, but I love it.
#wonderouswednesday

The Wayfarers is the perfect example of cozy sci-fi! Gora, a planet with nothing on it but travel stops, an odd group finds themselves at the Five-Hop run by a single mother and child doing their best. Mechanical failures means the group gets to have a mini-vacation while trying to figure out their lives. I enjoyed the day in the life style writing with emotional moments between strangers, characters becoming friends. Chambers is a great author!

Loving this so far ❤️

#BookNerd 🤓💙

Last book in The Wayfarer series. I loved this book, and the series. I really like how nuanced the characters are and how they all come together and drive the story.

Doing double duty for Sci-Fi Sep #RoaringWolf (Reaching for the Stars) & #Booked2021 (New in 2021).

3 shuttles stop at a galactic fuel station/rest stop run by a Laru and her kid. The planned overnight turns into an extended stay due to unforeseen circumstances and this mix of sapient species end up sharing and sparring in unexpected ways. The human conflicts mirrored here are clear. I cautiously hope we on Earth will evolve to this point. 🤞

At a planetary rest stop, several beings are stranded after an almost total collapse of the planet‘s satellite system.

Not much plot here, but a wonderful story about finding community & help within a group of strangers brought together by disastrous circumstance. Chambers‘s alien species continue to wow me with their uniqueness & development. She has a knack for it. A cozy sci fi for when you need to reaffirm that people can be good. 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑

Thanks for this #ThoughtfulThursday tag @jeannasser & @WJCintron ! 😀

🍃 1. I got to zoom-chat with some good friends
🍃 2. When the leaves start to change color
🍃 3. Done!

Feel like playing? Consider yourself tagged!

The fourth book in the Wayfarers series and it is a true delight. Coxy, heartwarming, life affirming story. I love the worlds that the author creates! 3.5 🌟

#bookspin #TheAromaofBooks

What can I say? Becky Chambers has yet to disappoint.

In this deeply satisfying final book in her Wayfarers series, she once again tells an intricate story that is all at once challenging, thoughtful and hopeful. It‘s her signature move - space adventure as hopeful exploration of life in all its facets. this was the exact book I needed.

If you can, listen to it on audio. Rachel Dulude makes this great book even better.

I am very good at starting science fiction series, but I am not good at finishing them. I am happy to have finished this series. The first book, A Long Way to a Small Angry Planet, is one of my all-time favorite Science Fiction novels. I enjoy being in the world (or galaxy) that Chambers has created. This novel has interesting characters, but very little plot. I didn‘t mind. I had a great time just hanging out.

It has recaptured the fun and sweetness of the first of the wayfarers book. It is a sweet hug of a book and great to help my book slump where I can take nothing dark, or even just a bit hard, on my fiction. This book is jut 100% Zoloft delivered as a story.

Just a joy to read! The last book in the Wayfarers Quartet, and it doesn‘t have much plot, but I found it wonderful to get up close and intimate with a diverse bunch of aliens, stuck together in an unusual situation, forced to get to know each other. Chambers does an amazing job of showing how we can welcome and learn from other people groups and she does it using aliens - somehow tipping your perspective upside down so you learn a few things!

Last book of the #wayfarers quartet. Reading for one of my #bookclubs

Becky Chambers is an autobuy for me 🤗 Loved this.


Not my most favorite of hers (this one felt just a bit too lesson-y, like yes, I get it, tolerance and learning about each other is wonderful, I already agree! More drunk aliens now please !) Still a pick and a high recommend. It's imaginative and positive. A big space hug. 🌌🛸

My only regret is that I didn't re-read A Long Way to a Small Angry Planet before I read this book. As one of the minor characters in that book is fleshed out here and I had kind of forgotten her.

Apart from that it is another brilliant Becky Chambers book. As usual nothing much in the way of plot, just an immensely satisfying deep dive into some very special characters. Loved it.

That's spring (Djeran here, the cooling time when some rain starts and the red flowers emerge) of #booked2021. From top left : library in title, translated, UN peacekeepers, set Here (Perth), instrument on cover, anti racist. And the best book : the Becky Chambers! Love her. Pinsker a close second. #booked2021spring @BarbaraTheBibliophage @Cinfhen (if anyone thinks TGatGW is stretch in that cat, I also read Fire Front, The Old Lie & Maar Bidi)

The postman always rings when I'm in either a state of undress or am sweating from doing a workout. Today I was just changing after my post-workout shower. Impeccable timing. 🙄🙄🙄

The #BookMail was from @DuckOfDoom who had kindly pre-ordered a #SignedCopy for me when she ordered her own. 😘😘😘

My subconscious made me pick out the perfect pair of yoga pants before I even checked the package's address label. 😁

Also: #endpapers 😍

1. One Last Stop by Casey McQuistin & Unwell Women by Elinor Cleghorn

2. The Need by Helen Phillips

3. Ouloo in The Galaxy and the Ground Within by Becky Chambers

#weekendreads @rachelsbrittain