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2024 Reading Challenge: A Prayer for the Crown Shy

March 23, 2024 Kristen Ghodsee

I liked this, but not as much as the first book in the series. It was fun to follow the adventures of the tea monk and the robot, and I loved that it was so short, but Psalm for the Wild-Built is a very hard act to follow.

In 2024 Reading Challenge Tags Becky Chambers, A Prayer for the Crown-Shy, A Monk and Robot Book

2024 Reading Challenge: Psalm for the Wild-Built

February 17, 2024 Kristen Ghodsee

I loved this little novella so much, that I actually wrote a good old fashioned piece of fan mail to the author:

Dear Becky Chambers,

I'm a cultural anthropologist and a 53-year-old professor of Russian and East European Studies at Penn that never has time to read for leisure. It was snowing in Philadelphia today so I stayed in bed and did something I almost never do: I read your wonderful little book, Psalm for the Wild-Built, cover-to-cover on my stomach and under my covers in my pajamas like a teenager. It was the most luxurious thing in the world and it so suited the message of your book.

Anyway, as I fellow author, I always love it when readers reach out to tell me how much they were moved by my words. So I just wanted to do the same.

No expectation of a reply here; just know that your writing reached out on a cold winter's day in Philadelphia and made this sometimes cynical intellectual smile.

In solidarity,

Kristen R. Ghodsee

In books Tags 2024 Reading Challenge, Becky Chambers, Psalm for the Wild-Built, A Monk and Robot Book, Science Fiction