Loved itSo, I did, and I read it within a day... It was a book that had me just thinking about the world and nature. It had me crying like happy tears. I underlined so many things in this book.
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A Psalm for the Wild-Built (2021)
Others: Mostly positive It's been centuries since the robots of Panga gained self-awareness and laid down their tools; centuries since they wandered, en masse, into the wilderness, never to be seen again; centuries since they faded into myth and urban legend. One day, the life of a tea monk is upended by the arrival of a robot, there to honor the old promise of checking in. The robot cannot go back until the question of "what do people need?" is answered. But the answer to that question depends on who you ask, and how. They're going to need to ask it a lot. Becky Chambers's new series asks: in a world where people have what they want, does having more matter?
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- 9781250236227
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- 160 pages
Genres: fantasy, science fiction
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Loved it
Loved itI love Becky Chambers Cozy Sci-Fi. Obviously, Songs for the Wild Bill, one of my favorite books of all time.
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Loved itThe first book is called A Psalm for the Wild Built and it is about a future where robots live in the woods because they decided to not want to work for humans anymore.
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Loved itthere's discussions great ones about guilt and passion. They encounter a robot in the story and they teach them about the experience of living. It's soft and warm.
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Not a fanSurprisingly, I didn't really like the first one as much.
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Loved itI have never and will never know what it feels like to take a bra off at the end of the day but I imagine it feels like reading this book it was a satisfying read
Loved itit's a very gentle but almost philosophical book it really gets you thinking and that's what I love about it's so cozy and quiet but also like leaves you thinking
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MixedI read monk and the robot for my novella, Hugo project. ... the theming is really loud. And it's not themes that I'm personally resonating with at the moment.
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Loved itit's a heartwarming fuzzy Adventure it is a combo between science fiction and self-help which I didn't know you could combine I was very surprised by the moral conclusions that this little tiny Novella came to
Loved itbecky chambers work i just i just love it i just love it this is a very quiet story about a team monk who's essentially a therapist having a bit of a quarter life crisis goes out into the wilderness trying to like sort of find purpose and runs into a robot
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Loved itSo, I loved it. I want so much more. I want many, many continuing adventures with the monk and the robot.