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Book Club: July 11 – For We Are Many by Dennis E. Taylor

It came up in Book Club that it would be nice to have notes about what people enjoyed or didn’t enjoy on our book club reads. So here’s the nutshell information about what we read and how we felt about it.

Book club: Cedar Rapids SciFi/Fantasy Book Club

Venue: Cedar Rapids B & N

Book:

Overall impression: Liked by people who finished, but it was a small meeting.

Warnings: Second in a series.

My personal take: I did not finish (DNF). I liked book one well enough but I had pacing issues with the book personally.

Ultimately, I came to the conclusion that all the Bobs are lonely. Worse, they will never get the human connection they are missing because they aren’t human anymore. They missed their opportunity, because should have been looking for that connection when they were alive.

That idea just seemed sad to me, and I wasn’t invested enough in the larger plot to continue reading.

Book Club: June 13th, 2023 – Horseman: A Tale of Sleepy Hollow

It came up in Book Club that it would be nice to have notes about what people enjoyed or didn’t enjoy on our book club reads. So here’s the nutshell information about what we read and how we felt about it.

Book club: Cedar Rapids SciFi/Fantasy Book Club

Venue: Cedar Rapids B & N

Book:

Overall impression: Book Club liked the book, though the ending wasn’t universally liked.

Warnings: LGBTQIA+ themes (non-sexual)

My personal take: I enjoyed the book. It felt like it trailed off, which was a little unsatisfying.

The long, still, moments of the dusk

I’m sitting in the dark, writing on my phone as the long still moments of the dusk slip into night. My favorite human is asleep on the couch, finally home from vacation and business travel.

Sophie-dog is laying by the sliding glass door, watching out hopefully for another groundhog to blunder into the yard. She got one on Tuesday, and now her surveillance of the back yard is eternal.

Poppy-cat is likely on the dining room table, based on the sound of the little bell on her collar. I don’t have the heart to shoo her down tonight.

I’m not sure where Mojo-kitty is Mojoing at the moment, but that’s hardly unusual. Mojo is our timid baby and slinks about on his own schedule.

I should probably start the process of putting the house to bed, but there’s something comforting about everything being right in the house after weeks of displacement. I just want to sit in the stillness, in the dark, and appreciate it for a few more minutes.

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