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A very well written story about Karen, a seamstress (sex worker) in a fictional Pacific Northwest city who deliberately choose that career to when towards future goals. Lots of very engaging characters in Karen's life as she works to help protect her friends, found family and city from people intent on harming them.

A wonderful phrase: I wished i could offer her tea. You don't think about it, but all those little fusses we make over company have their purpose. They give us something to do with our hands and our anxiousness until everybody settles in and starts having fun.

Alistair Reynolds delivers a sweeping continuation of the Ness sisters' story in Bone Silence. Old foes reappear, new allies are made and lots of stunning revelations.

In the acknowledgements Alistair writes that he is setting the Ness sisters aside "for a while". I look forward to reading more about them and/or the Congregation. #Bookstodon

No matter what anyone tells you the bad thing that happened at school wasn't Billy!

A wonderful retelling of Cinderella and other fairy tales with modern sensibilities and exploration of the consequences of easy magic solutions. Some very good headology was used to motivate the other witches to help Magrat be a fairy godmother.

An interesting account of a Peace Corps tour during the 1960's. I found it though Dylan's connection to Kinky Friedman.

Unfortunately the formatting of the ebook was very bad but the book was interesting enough to keep going.

An interesting plot and characters overall. However the main character's air of superiority and attitude towards the female lead character through most of the book kept pulling me out of the tale. The character was deliberately written that way and does eventually change a little bit it was very distracting for me.

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All three novellas are very good.

“The Four Thousand, the Eight Hundred” explores a civil war on an asteroid colony generations after the colony was founded.

“Dispersion” is about a planet inhabited by six groups that are cyclically intangible and invisible to each other. Then a new disease spreads among all six groups and the race is on to find the cause and a cure. Very good descriptions of how the six groups cyclically are able to interact.

“Phoresis” tells of two tidally locked planets where one is slowly becoming uninhabitable. Interesting and courageous folks explore possible solutions and work to make them happen.