book roundup

Of course my numbers associated with the books don't necessarily relate to when I actually read or listened to them, so this time for the heck of it I will begin with the audio books. I get most of them from the library app on my phone, and that place is kind of the scrubland of books nobody wants, far as I can tell.

30) Noor, by Nnedi Okorafor, read by De'le' Ogundiran. A young woman who had birth defects and an accident has had herself highly modified, so she has mechanical legs, one mechanical arm (like the Six Million Dollar man and woman) and some kind of connection in her brain to, like, all the AIs in the world, and they just... like her more than they like anyone else. And it's set in Nigeria, and there's prejudice against partially mechanical people and nomadic herdsmen, and there's a mysterious city that seemingly nobody can find because it resets its time every hour or something... I don't get how this makes it invisible. Sci-fi fantasy.

31) The Echo Wife, by Sarah Gailey, read by Xe Sands. Literature maskerading as science-fiction, because a whole lot of it did not seem to make any scientific sense. Or even human sense. ( Spoilers )

32) Ginger Bread, by Helen Oyeyemi, read by the author. Kind of a pointless, random, wandering sort of book where nothing whatsoever gets explained. Magical realism literature. Fun, I guess? Pretty? Well written, probably. But again, not really my thing.

Currently re-listening to
"Good Omens" (Pratchett/Gaimen) the book, but read by the cast of the series (well, they got the major cast members but then had Kobna Holdbrook-Smith read all the smaller parts, apparently)
and
"The Furthest Station" by Ben Aaronovitch read by Kobna Holdbrook-Smith.

I guess I will do the regular books in a few days when we get back from camp.