I did pretty well with my first month of #Roll100 in January—2 books completed and I‘m 2/3 through the third book. Hopefully that bodes well for February! Here are my books corresponding to the numbers.
I put a number of stalled-out books on my #bookspin list for February - let's see where the luck takes me!
I very much enjoyed the system last month, @TheAromaofBooks you're right! Somehow the dual list with lots of category entries on the bingo board was very freeing.
pick12/100 Its been a long time since I read this, back in high school, but I'd forgotten how sad this book is, how melancholy the whole world was, even in the lighter moments. Sometimes Bradbury leans too much into the poetic for my tastes, but his vision of a Mars that will never be, definitely stays with the reader when its finished. 3 ⭐⭐⭐💫 #ClassicLSFBC #Jumpstart2025 #Read2025
One day Trurl the constructor put together a machine that could create anything starting with N.
#FirstLineFridays @ShyBookOwl
Well i don't know about you but i would not remember any phone number from memory now... 🤣🤣🤣
pick(1950) I read this repeatedly in Junior high and high school, but it's been maybe thirty years since my last visit. The stories have lost some charm: Bradbury's fondness for small-town life is a faith I no longer share. And the idea of colonists recreating mid-twentieth-century Midwestern life on Mars now feels more disturbing than nostalgic. But several stories still effectively evoke a mood for me, not bad for a book pushing 75. #classiclsfbc
pickHumanity has been confined to the Solar System and a few severely overcrowded space stations by the Quill. Rumour says there was a single survivor of a Quill attack.
Good world building with an intriguing and exciting story. 2 minor complaints: the way the story was slowed down by Aaron and Gail's romance. I wish the author had chosen a different name for the aliens - I kept imagining people being massacred with obsolete writing implements.
so-soI'm struggling to resist the urge to call this pleasantly packaged fatalism, because it's definitely a reductive way of looking at the story as a whole. I usually enjoy sci-fi stories that are more human-focused, that address the interpersonal, exploring how humans/beings deal with life and each other, but this narrative walks the less trod path of addressing 1/?
I love when sci-fi authors solve language puzzles presented by telling a story with aliens in a language created by humans.
How do you say something's man-made, when it wasn't made by man? [ Yeah, you could say artificial or not natural, but this is more fun 😊].
