Hooked on Books discussion

MN Lisa wrote: "Jackie, I've only read the first one, so if you want to pick a prompt that fits for the second I could BR that with you..."

The second one is Artificial Condition and it can work for Read a book where nature influences the story or the characters’ choices.

Justification: Murderbot’s return to the unstable mining world is driven by the planet’s dangerous, altered environment.

I could definitely do a Murderbot story. I think I'm going to do more Sci-Fi rather than first name letter this time .

@Jackie I'm reading Just a Regular Boy which is available on kindle read and listen. It has a survivalist MC and would work for a few categories.

Oh and the next Murderbot works for my letter! Woohoo!

Jessica wrote: "@Jackie I'm reading Just a Regular Boy which is available on kindle read and listen. It has a survivalist MC and would work for a few categories."

Would you want to do a buddy read?

I'll say more later, but I'm finally back and would definitely read Artificial Condition as a buddy read. I didn't get Kestrel read this month, and it's also SF, but I haven't even looked at the categories.

Also, Amanda, I read a ton of fanfic because I had no spoons (I ditched a fair few of my reads).

Tapestry is on GR, but doesn't have a page count. The AO3 listing is here (https://archiveofourown.org/works/432...), and it has 91,426 words. Could you possibly update it for my use? Thanks!

Im so pleased to see your name to pop up Kirsten 😁

I gasped at the name! So happy. If Kestrel works somewhere and you want to read it still let me know and I'll fit it in.

Updated Tapestry - 356 pages

Janine...Did you want to read Artificial Condition? If so, that could be our team read this month...

MN Lisa wrote: "Janine...Did you want to read Artificial Condition? If so, that could be our team read this month..."

Ill give audio another go as free ..its £8 to buy 😳😳

Is
Read a book where nature influences the story or the characters’ choices.

The only section it works for ?

I have found the dramatized version of audio is great.

I'm not sure. Jackie I think has read it before so she could say if it could be used for other prompts.

Here's what Chatgpt come up with for Artificial Condition

Read a book exploring the relationship between people and the environment.
The mining operations and corporate exploitation implicitly touch on how humans reshape and exploit environments for profit, often at great cost.

Read a book that deals with environmental challenges or changes.
The mine setting represents altered environments where natural landscapes are consumed and transformed for resources, raising questions about sustainability and corporate negligence.

Read a book where nature influences the story or the characters’ choices.
The hostile mining planet acts as a backdrop that shapes the dangers characters face; the harshness of the environment magnifies the stakes.

Read a book that touches on sustainability or alternative ways of living.
The contrast between corporate exploitation and Murderbot’s resistance to that system hints at critiques of unsustainable practices.

Read a book imagining a future shaped by ecological or environmental shifts.
The corporate-dominated future is one where planetary environments are routinely consumed and reshaped; ecology is secondary to profit, but it’s still a consequence of this imagined world.

Thanks Jackie 👍

Im starting to think you & Lisa have shares in Chatgpt 😂😂😂

It comes in handy sometimes. 😃

Great minds think a like. :)

@ Lisa, I started Inside a Dark Space and I am not sure it's going to be for you. It's very well written and I'm loving it but it's also a very bleak world where homophobia and transphobia to an absolute extreme is the norm. I know you dont even like historical for homophobia reasons and this is worse IMO (view spoiler)[ one of the MCs was formerly in like a concentration camp for being nonbinary (hide spoiler)]

I can give it a try or a pass. I trust you and not sure I could read that....

If you have another book for the spot I'd say go that way. I can even give some much lighter recommendations. I just know that Jar city brought you down and dont want you going through that again

My Just Drive book is coming up as 0 points on SS , can someone take a look please

I have chosen my books and would BR Krie Captivity and Inside a Dark Space.

My choices (all SF, all diversity but kingdoms and artificial condition):
Moon of the Crusted Snow--indigenous horror thriller
Inside a Dark Space--BR with Amanda
Nowhere Else--part of a trilogy; i loved the first book
Future Home of the Living God--Louise Erdrich, so it should be good
Artificial Condition--murderbot
Land of Milk and Honey--a chef makes good food with bad origins
Out of Nowhere--part of a trilogy; i loved the first book
Crocodile Tears--rec'd by a friend
Kríe Captivity--BR with Lisa
The Kingdoms--time travel from last month

I see 29 Points for Just Drive, so I think someone fixed it.

OK....recommendations for
Read a book featuring a character deeply connected to the natural world.

AND

Read a book with characters advocating for or protecting the environment.

Also for Solar System...I need
MPG Time Travel (if I replace Heart of a Wolf)
Ring on the Cover

The Kingdoms, which I'm reading for Quills, is time travel.

I'm reading the last 2 books of the Nowhere Trilogy and they fit the natural world and environment (I'm using book 3 for environment, but all would work). The first book, Edge of Nowhere, would also work--I just read it. I thought it was really good. If you wanted to read the first 2, we could buddy the second. Fast, sexy, not too much SF.

OK. I'm in for The Kingdoms

Would the first in the Nowhere trilogy work for Read a book imagining a future shaped by ecological or environmental shifts. OR Read a book that deals with environmental challenges or changes.

Lisa, I think you'd like Hyperspeed which I just read and I think you could make an argument for deals with environmental challenges or changes (one of the race tracks is extra dangerous because of the environmental challenges)

And yes, the first Nowhere would also work for either of those.

OK. I switched out my Lisa Henry Space ones with the first Nowhere and Hyperspeed.

Kirsten, I actually finished Inside a Dark Space today because it was an arc but took notes for discussing!

I'm doing all the BR Thread requests now

Thanks for that--I am starting it today or tomorrow.

And friends, I have really slowed down. Lisa, I hope you like the Felicia Davin books. I mentioned Edge of Nowhere earlier, because I liked it so much, especially for a SF book.

Lisa, I would read Krie Captivity this week, because it has yellow text for TW if that worked for you. It is short with high adjusted word count!

I can probably start that tomorrow. I'm doing a re-read of a Sweet Man for my last Clown Task. I should finish tonight.

I'm not a huge Sci-Fi fan, so I'll alternate those and other books this month. I can start with that one and then do hyperspeed (need for bachelor) after that.

Ok. Here is my order for the next few books. Kirsten, take a look and see if our BR will work for this order.

Sweet Man Currently Reading
Kríe Captivity Start Wednesday
How to Flirt with a Hellhound Start Thursday
Edge of Nowhere Start Friday
Danny Hall Gets a Lawyer Start Saturday
Nowhere Else Start Sunday

Works for me. I’m reading Inside a Dark Place today and can start Krie next. I’m going to request a buddy for hellhound and knock that one out with you. I won’t like it, though!

Or, wait, can you do the buddy reads?

You might. Shannon Mae is funny, but but a different kind? If that makes sense?

I'm not sure if I can do the BR. I'll have to ask...

The one Shannon Mae book I read felt like AJ Sherwood to the extreme Kirsten so I’m very curious to see what you say lol

Its one of Lisas choices for last month of SH ....its not a great selection this month

I assume I won't enjoy it... I read a Shannon Mae for one of Lisa's reads (one of the demon books, I think?) for an SH a few years ago. BUT, I'll be reading with a buddy, and it will knock off that slot, and, it's fairly short.

I requested a BR in the thread and in the BR thread for us.

Other than the fact I can't seem to concentrate on anything for more than 30 min, Edge of Nowhere is pretty good so far

MN Lisa wrote: "Other than the fact I can't seem to concentrate on anything for more than 30 min, Edge of Nowhere is pretty good so far"

🥳
Yay!

Kirsten....Out of Nowhere is on my list. I'm ready when you are. I almost started reading it as soon as I finished. I'm going to read the last one too.

Also, The Kingdoms works for TW starting 9/9. Can you work that into your list next week too?

I didn’t realize out of nowhere was on your list! I’m reading it now and loving it. I thought you were doing just the 3rd one, Nowhere Else.

Yes, I’m planning on the kingdoms for next weeks TW, too.

I’m also planning to start artificial condition.