On the 12th day of Christmas my true love read to me…
12 patients coding
11 feds a-tracking
10 Kansans grieving
9 scandals brewing
8 microbes spreading
7 mothers plotting
6 bots a-murderin‘
~ 5 ~ golden ~ rings ~
4 fungal nets
3 fishing boats
2 bureaucrats
And a desolate Scottish coast 🎶
#12booksof2025
Even if this is fiction I think they are out there just waiting for what scientists say is a critical threshold we are headed towards 👀🤦🏼♀️👽👽👾👾
bailedI was listening to this for the #ClassicLSFBC but I was only able to make it through the first third of the book and I couldn‘t go any further. Michael York is a fabulous narrator, so if you want to listen to this in audio format, find a copy of the 75th Anniversary edition. I look forward to the discussion at the end of the month.
pickI just reread this for the third time and it never gets old. It's an epic story of oppression, class divide, rebellion and more. The author has an incredible ability to create relationships you care deeply about. Darrow, the main character, is surrounded by people who make him the man he is. Mustang, Sevro, Ragnar, Victra, Cassius, Eo, Pax, the Howlers, the Jackal, each person shaped him & influenced him as he fought his war. I love it so much.
“[Lyubov] lay face down in the firelit lake of mud. He did not see a little green-furred huntress leap at the girl, drag her down backwards, and cut her throat. He did not see anything.”
“Raj Lyubov‘s job was to find out what [men] did …he lreferred to be enlightened, rather than to enlighten; to seek facts rather than the Truth. But even the most unmissionary soul, unless he pretends he has no emotions, is sometimes faced with a choice between commission and omission. ‘What are they doing?‘ abruptly becomes, ‘What are we doing?‘ and then ‘What must I do?‘”
pickMy favorite 2025 middle grade read was a high stakes combination of fantasy and science fiction. Humanity has expanded to has colonies on other planets and moons and each plant and moon as one dragon attached to it. But Mars' dragon has died and the people there have been abandoned by earth. This is their fight to survive through the eyes of one young boy, his secret young dragon, and his band of mismatched friends.
#middlegrademonday @daisey
pickHoly F- Could not have asked for a better reading experience to start off 2026.
I suppose it's not very flattering that I keep being surprised by how much I love these books, but there's something about Asimov's writing that leads me to underestimate him in the first half, just so I can be blown away in the latter and in reflecting upon the whole.
Without a doubt, this robot series is sci-fi, but it is strongly mystery as well. 1/?
pickAnd my last #booksreadin2025!
This was funny from the start and it never stopped. The first POV from Charlie, the MC, was the best part of the book, in my opinion, as we experiance a lot at the same time he does. Not to mention the mutual surprise of sentient cats and dolphins willing to strike in protest! The additional characters are sooo much fun and I'm in love with them all.What a fun surprise to end the year!
