ATBITS: March 2016 Pick: All The Birds In The Sky by Charlie Jane Anders

[xGvJx]

I started on Book 2 last night, and I'm loving it so far! I just wanted to stay up all night and read on, but I was too tired, and work is too demanding these days. Looking forward to getting home and picking it up again!

[Joe Informatico]

Read this just a couple of weeks ago and enjoyed it quite a bit!

Trike wrote: "From the locked February What Are You Reading thread:

Phil wrote: "Given this and Radiance and a few other laser picks over the last year or two I'm beginning to wonder when science fiction went from being the literature of science geeks to being the literature of artsy hipsters."

1967. See: The New Wave. "

More vintage than that--1818. See: A little book called Frankenstein.

/pretentioushipster
:)

[Tamahome]

Trying to keep all these names in one place. :)

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Dara I'm a bit wary of this book now. I love Charlie Jane Doe but the ebook price held me back and now I'm more uncertain.

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Tamahome Tom seemd to really like Charlie Painkiller Jane.

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Dara I thought Charlie Thomas Jane was great in The Expanse.

[Andrew]

@tom Why was this picked? If it was in the podcast I missed it.
Great pick though, I wouldn't of read it on my own and really enjoyed it

[Ju]

Delighted that this month's pick is already on my 'to-read' list and has been rec'd all over the place! Just started it last night and I'm enjoying it a lot so far.

[Tom, Supreme Laser]

Tamahome wrote: "Trying to keep all these names in one place. :)

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Dara I'm a bit wary of this book now. I love Charlie Jane Doe but the ebook price held me back an..."

Because I'm a fan.

[Rob]

Who doesn't love Charlie Jeff Vanders? It feels like everyone in the SFF community has been touched in some way by io9.

[Joshua]

just grabbed a signed copy from my barns and noble

[Amy]

I'm putting it there that THIS MONTH I'm gonna read the pick. I meant to last month... and the month before... saying out loud means it's gonna happen, right?

hunting for the audible now. wish me luck ;)

[Amy]

OK, no audible in Australia either.

[Elizabeth]

I put it on my to read list but $12.99 for Kindle edition...might be a while before I'm willing to buy it.

[Ju]

I'm really enjoying the book so far - I am glad I bought it.

[Kevin]

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[Richard]

I finished the book awhile ago, and I've just been letting my thoughts stew because I liked it a lot, but something didn't click, and I think after listening to this weeks podcast i finally figured out what it is, and it has to do with a disconnect between the first half of the book and the second half of the book in terms of the certain secondary characters.

Patricia's parents were covered in the podcast, but beyond that... (view spoiler)[I feel like Theodolphus Rose got a pretty big build-up in the first part of the book only to get neutralized pretty early. I kept waiting for a comeback that never happened. And then Patricia gets a cat as a familiar. The familiar throws in a line of foreshadowing. Patricia runs away from home, and the cat is never mentioned again. (hide spoiler)]

Still, this book was a fun read, even though Patricia and Lawrence were really frustrating at times. I'd read more from Cactus Jack Anders.

[terpkristin]

I mentioned in my review that it seemed like there were some unnecessary characters and story lines. The one you mention, Richard, is one of the big ones I was thinking of.

[Trike]

I picked this up on the way home from work last night and just started reading it this afternoon while the puppy was napping. Five chapters in and I'm enjoying it quite a lot. So far this has that hard-to-define thing called "flow" that moves you effortlessly through the prose. That right there starts a book off with 3 stars in my estimation.

[Walter]

My copy just arrived at the library this am, so I'm getting to it late in the month. But since it's not a brick/boulder like my last read (::cough, dansimmonstheterror, cough), I shouldn't be sucking hind teat for too long.

[xGvJx]

I am sooo disappointed! Initially it was a potential 5 star book for me, I loved the wrapping, and it started out as different and interesting. But that soon wore off :/ Now I'm struggling to get to the end, with only around 20 pages to go it is still a tough job to get through it. I have to return it to the library tomorrow, so I have to finish it today, but I can't seem to find the motivation.