Tell me about your weird niche thing!!
But also I so appreciated how Rosenbloom wove together three disparate strands in her book. 
1) isn’t this wild!?
2) reflecting on death and what’s left and what we owe both the quick and the dead. 
3) the complicated and often abusive history of medicine. 
I’m not sure how this book lands if you’re not starting from a place of finding the topic fascinating, but I thought Rosenbloom really did it justice. 

This was sweet and fun and very bubbly in so many ways and I have so many questions remaining about the actual growth and capacity of these characters to resolve issues.
It's a very surface story and it's not like my brain wanted depth right now precisely, but it felt like some of the dots were connected.

I have finally figured out my problem with rating books about Jewish ideology - I think it's yuhara.

Cool. Anyway - this book is amazing and wild and I can't stop thinking about the arguments Tamares makes about, well, everything. The translation is particularly concerned with his political stance, which makes sense, but I think my favorite was his drasha on Pesach and liberty.

I definitely have to learn his actual sefer now. 

Sometimes you just want to opera your space and this book delivers. It felt...not entirely coherent but I didn't really care while reading it because the momentum just takes you along and that was exactly what I needed.

I really appreciated coming back to the Planetfall universe and getting to see all these little snippets of people and the writing process behind it. 
They all felt deeply realized and I loved how they did what Em does best - provided a sense of character along with a deep affection for whose those people are. 

I really enjoyed this book and I really wanted to enjoy this book more than I did.
The story itself was a very intriguing experience and what Shepherd manages to do with the conceit is very fun.
And the characters felt a little bit like they were being moved around the map by the author based on what they needed to be rather than acting organically and it felt like motivation and being people was not the most important part of the story.

I had no idea where this book was going, which is ABSURD because Tesh tells you where she’s going with it from the first chapter and yet…
That’s the thing about this book. It’s not trying to surprise you and, with all that, it lets the characters grow and discover in their own time. It’s a story about how to be better. As individuals, as a society. It’s a story about what good is - the ends and the means - and about people just being people. 
It is also, because of course it is,

A wizards versus lesbians story. The wizards showed up early and then we eventually got lesbians. Thank goodness. I do think it doesn’t argue that queer love saves against empire although it does sort of make the goodness, like queer love, does not need to be productive to be valuable

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This book was such a ride and earned every bit of its ending. 

What is this book even???
It’s bananas and weird and complicated and trying to do a bajillion things and mostly succeeds. 
And it has so many things I like - ark ships and cryogenically frozen people causing problems and weird worldbuilding and not knowing who to root for because it really feels like everyone is doing the best they can. 

This feels like one of those books that you recommend by describing the premise and then watching who leans in and who recoils. 

I still can't entirely tell how much this book is romanticizing or simply being vivid. Maybe a bit of both. Joshi's writing is evocative, even if that sometimes makes me wonder about accuracy (and also what's up with the whole "flavor of language" thing. But these entirely series is about flavor one way or another so I digress).

It was a good end to the story and, fortunately, not as much time dealing with casual misogyny and men who simply refused. to. get. it. as I had worried at the beginning. I did appreciate how happily everything ended up ever after.

Yes I know I'm late to the thing because sometimes I'm weird about things that are suddenly popular and too many people like it.
50% of the time my skepticism is worthwhile and the other 50%...well, this book happens. It's exactly what it says on the tin, it's extremely cute.
It is, incidentally, another #WizardsVersusLesbians book.

And Viv's absolutely stunning "I will not admit my feelings for you until I do by asking you to move in with me" is PEAK gay womanhood and I am here for it.

Anyway, it is a very comfortable book and I mean that as a high compliment.