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Sooo it looks like my loan will run out before I finish this – it's 22 hours and I didn't crochet much recently. So far it's pretty much as I expected. Interesting thought experiment and a lot of "ooooh so that thing wouldn't work either, aah", a bit dry and repetitive and humans-are-mean, a sexist vibe. What surprised me is how bad the audiobook narration is – everyone gets their own unconvincing accent, it's terrible.

On the surface, this is a future sf book about discovering sentient octopuses and trying to communicate with them. But, this is no Children of Ruin or even a Feed Them Silence; it hinges less on plot and characters, and feels more about worldbuilding in service to philosophy.

I quite enjoyed this book, and the strongest part was just how tightly the book's themes and ideas intertwined through the book's different point of views and the worldbuilding. It's a not-so-far future book with sentient octopuses, overfished waters, AI boats that drive themselves in search of profit, drones driven by humans in tanks, and the first android (but one reviled by humanity). It's a book about language and communication, memory and forgetting, what it means to be human and exist in community, and about fear of others.

Yes this is the "Blackout" that I actually wanted to read. Not the other one that I picked up accidentally.

It's a petty high school rivalry/love story, so, don't expect anything else. Buuut. I like it a lot.

I don't usually appreciate those marketing comparisons of different authors. But I kept thinking two of them: - "this is like John Green (and maybe David Levithan) but without all the stuff that makes me roll my eyes" - "this is like Courtney Summers, but without all the terrible bad things happening"

It's fairly lighthearted, it has a lot of queers, and I like how the big plot/character issues are at the same time shown as deeply important and totally everyday.

A classic Scalzi one-shot novel--a fluffy snack with some good twists.

The basic setup is that down-on-his-luck Charlie Fitzer unexpectedly inherits his estranged billionaire uncle's villainous empire and now has to fend with other villains who were pissed at his uncle.

Key features:

• volcano lair
• jerk dolphins who want to unionize
• zoom call power plays

Uuuh ok this is a slightly unexpected story because it has time travel. I thought it was mostly quite enjoyable, except that the folks in the rain forest seemed a bit exotisised to me.

Thus pretty sad and hard to read. I liked it a lot, even though some of the interactions seemed unrealistic to me in a way that the ghosts didn't.

It's not as cute as the first one (and I don't remember the second one), and somehow the heteronormativity comes through stronger. But I was happy enough.

Das fand ich ziemlich entbehrlich. Aber genau passend für ein Buch, das ich versehentlich angefangen hab zu lesen.