kind of a bummer to DNF a book I’d really been looking forward to (Children of Time), but life’s too short to read books you don’t want to read

Update on the arm I bought to hold my e-reader for me: have just discovered this enables me to knit (simple patterns) while I read

Last night I finished The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet and half a sock

update: the library director was in today and showed me his secret space opera hoard. new additions to the list:

• August Kitko and the Mechas from Space, Alex White
• You Sexy Thing, Cat Rambo

(haven’t read either yet, but he highly recommends)

he also had two of the books i’d been wanting to include in the display!

• The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet, Becky Chambers
• Ninefox Gambit, Yoon Ha Lee

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in case you needed a reason to volunteer at your local public library: today the librarians let me pick a theme for and then curate one of the featured displays.

time to get this town reading more space operas!

my picks, if you want to read along:

• All Systems Red, Martha Wells
• Ancillary Justice, Ann Leckie
• Collapsing Empire, John Scalzi
• Empire of Silence, Christopher Ruocchio
  
• Foundation, Isaac Asimov
  
• Leviathan Wakes, James A. Corey
• Olympos, Dan Simmons
• Saga (graphic novel), Brian K. Vaughan
• Shards of Earth, Adrian Tchaikovsky
• The Stars are Legion, Kameron Hurley
• The Three Body Problem, Liu Cixin

was working with a somewhat limited selection, or else I’d have tucked in some others:

• The Algebraist, Iain M. Banks (this is my current read!)
• Children of Time, Adrian Tchaikovsky
• Consider Phlebas, Iain M. Banks
• The Dispossessed, Ursula K. Le Guin
• The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet, Becky Chambers
• Ninefox Gambit, Yoon Ha Lee
• Nova, Samuel R. Delany
• Pandora’s Star, Peter F. Hamilton
• Revelation Space, Alistair Reynolds
• Shards of Honor, Lois McMaster Bujold
• Starship Troopers, Robert A. Heinlein
• We Are Legion (We Are Bob), Dennis E. Taylor

(I haven’t read all these, but the ones I haven’t are all on my to-read!)