Reader's Log, Supplemental, Week 17/52 for 2024, Stardate 20240425.1018.

I am failing the #52BookChallenge SO HARD, y'all. Not only have I not been sticking to my existing #TBR stack and getting through 1 book each week, but MORE BOOKS HAVE MANIFESTED IN MY TBR STACK! I am doomed. Doomed, I tell you.

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Reposting because I broke the thread (argh)! Arsenic and Adobo, by Mia P. Manansala (2021). #TBR #52BookChallenge 3/52

+ Delicious descriptions and fun characters.
- The mystery itself isn't very complex.
+ Recipes in the back of the book!

Pet peeve: the "girl comes home from the Big City and discovers true meaning when she accepts having to stay in her small hometown," a leetle too Hallmark Christmas Movie.

Will read more in the series.

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Sisters of the Forsaken Stars, by Lina Rather (2022), 2/52 #TBR #52BookChallenge, finished at the cabin, MLK weekend.

This SF novella is all about the *aftermath* of a ship of nuns saving a colony from an intentionally deadly plague (in a previous book). This is very much the second book in a series, full of angst, indecision, grief, and consequences. It really doesn’t stand on its own. Loved the wonder-filled descriptions of the liveships and their biology, though!

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Because it took me longer to read that 500 pager, my next #TBR book, 2/52, is a novella! Sisters of the Forsaken Stars, by Lina Rather (2022). Hoping to gobble it up this weekend.

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Persephone Station by Stina Leicht (2021)
TBR 1/52

This is the cyberiest of cyberpunk, with a "first alien contact gone wrong" overlay. Reminded me of CJ Cherryh's action-driven SF and Pat Cadigan's cyberpunk.

A rag-tag crew of enforcers that are as much family as battle-buddies, an immortal, nonbinary gangster boss, an empathetic AGI (artificial general intelligence) newly decanted into a biological body on a mission of mercy. Recommended.

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