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Record of a Spaceborn Few (Wayfarers #3) by Becky Chambers

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“From the ground, we stand. From our ships, we live. By the stars, we hope.” Becky Chambers’s writing just resonates with me. It’s something about how incredibly realistic her characters are, set against an absolutely fantastic background. She write these stories about people living on a spaceship with incredible detail, down to how they grow food, and dispose of their dead, and handle cultural clashes with actual aliens, yet they act like people you’ve known your entire lives. Her books are inclusive and expansive and just give me this wonderful feeling in my chest whenever I’m reading them. I enjoyed […]

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11/5/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No: 214 |

Quadruple Cannonball!

To Be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky Chambers

The Institute by Stephen King

My Favorite Half-Night Stand by Christina Lauren

Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language by Amanda Montell

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Woo hoo! I hit 208 books this weekend. Here are the last 4 books I read, a nice mix of my favorite things: Becky Chambers, Stephen King, Christina Lauren, and a book about linguistics! (5stars) To Be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky Chambers I really love Becky Chambers’s writing — the subject matter (space!) is so fresh and interesting, but the characters at the center are so realistic and well-written (even when they’re not human). I was thrilled to discover that Chambers released a novella this year AND a third novel in her Wayfarers series (thanks CBR!). I immediately picked […]

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10/23/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No: 208 |

This does not mean they don’t exist.

To be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky Chambers

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This is a novella narrated by an astronaut waking from suspended animation, called torpor here, or more accurately delayed animation, which as we find out is the more accurate way to describe the very slowed down effects of the state, as opposed to pure sleep or stoppage. This is an exploratory spacecraft whose purpose to look into a series of different planets (with very different sets of factors) and see about them. But this is like playing Mass Effect or another planet jumping game or story, while also having to fully contend with the effects of long-term space travel that […]

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10/18/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No: 574 |

Slow at first, but absolutely worth it in the end

Record of a Spaceborn Few by Becky Chambers

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From Goodreads: From the ground, we stand. From our ship, we live. By the stars, we hope Centuries after the last humans left Earth, the Exodus Fleet is a living relic, a place many are from but few outsiders have seen. Humanity has finally been accepted into the galactic community, but while this has opened doors for many, those who have not yet left for alien cities fear that their carefully cultivated way of life is under threat. Tessa chose to stay home when her brother Ashby left for the stars, but has to question that decision when her position […]

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10/4/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No: 70 |

The Reality of Space Travel

To Be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky Chambers

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The lovely faintingviolet thrust this upon me a few days ago, and since I still hadn’t found something for my Science square, this little book was perfect. Faintingviolet’s a huge fan of Becky Chambers, and really enjoyed her first book, The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet. As I’m not so much in the sci-fi end of the speculative world, I’d never come across Chambers’ work before, but I was pleasantly surprised at how wonderful this novella was. Chambers builds an entire world in a short amount of time and it never feels rushed or unfinished. Our crew of astronauts […]

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9/25/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No: 33 |

“The ache to return to a time long gone was almost worse than fear.” (CBR11 Bingo)

To Be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky Chambers

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I knew what to expect from a Becky Chambers book after reading two of her previous novels in the Wayfarers series (which apparently this novella is not part of… but I swear its in the same universe). To Be Taught, If Fortunate would have some vivid writing, exceptional world-building (seriously, what Chambers can do in a matter of sentences to build an entirely new environment is insane), and diverse characters. I knew nothing else when picking it up, and I’m glad. I didn’t need to. LikeThe Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet, this novella is at its heart a road […]

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9/23/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No: 48 |

Questions about Modernity and Ways of Life – But in Space

Record of a Spaceborn Few by Becky Chambers

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While Becky Chambers has already explained the circumstances of the descendants of Earth in broad strokes in her previous two Wayfarer novels, in this third novel, she shifts her attention to the remaining human fleet.  When Earth was on the brink of collapse, some people with resources started by colonizing planets and moons in the Solar System such as Mars.  Those left behind eventually had to deconstruct the cities and sky scrapers, and use those resources to create a fleet for the last of humanity to escape.  They completely changed their approach to life, realizing that warfare and competition had […]

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9/8/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No: 73 |

Choice, Purpose and Design

A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers

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While A Closed and Common Orbit deals with the aftermath of the events The Long Way to Small, Angry Planet, it can be read independently.  The novel alternates between the view points of two characters.  Lovelace/Sidra’s perspective takes place directly after the other novel, and Jane’s chapters take place about 20 years prior, and explore how she ended up escaping a planet where she was genetically engineered for one specific function/job.  This isn’t a spoiler since Pepper was introduced in the previous novel as a friend of one of the main crew members and it had alluded to her past.  […]

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9/6/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No: 62 |


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