WWW Wednesday 1.17.23

This weekly meme is hosted by Sam at Taking on a World of Words. All you need to do to participate is to answer the following three questions.

What are you currently reading?

If on a winter’s night a traveler has such an interesting format and use of language. So far I’m loving what I’ve read (2 chapters) but I’m still not quite sure what the overarching plot is.

Queen of Shadows is still just ok for me. I took a little break from this series so I really hope I don’t get spoiled on the new Crescent City since there is no way I’m going to be able to read it when it comes out. I have four hours left in the audiobook and then I’m onto the tandem read.

I’m behind on my buddy read of War and Peace. I didn’t read much the first couple of weeks in January so I’m trying to catch up this week. I just completed the week one pages and so far I’m enjoying this story more than I thought I would. Also, I’ve been taking lots of notes so that’s been slowing me down too.

What have you recently finished?

I plan on working on reviews the rest of this week so you will *fingers crossed* see reviews for all these books coming in the next week. I enjoyed everything but The Nature of Witches but I can see why other people love it.

What do you think you’ll read next?

*This is main book club pick for SunBeam Jess’s Patreon.

The crew of the Six-Thousand Ship consists of those who were born, and those who were made. Those who will die, and those who will not. When the ship takes on a number of strange objects from the planet New Discovery, the crew is perplexed to find itself becoming deeply attached to them, and human and humanoid employees alike start aching for the same things: warmth and intimacy. Loved ones who have passed. Shopping and child-rearing. Our shared, far-away Earth, which now only persists in memory.

Gradually, the crew members come to see their work in a new light, and each employee is compelled to ask themselves whether they can carry on as before – and what it means to be truly living.

Structured as a series of witness statements compiled by a workplace commission, Ravn’s crackling prose is as chilling as it is moving, as exhilarating as it is foreboding. Wracked by all kinds of longing, The Employees probes into what it means to be human, while delivering an overdue critique of a life governed by the logic of productivity.