The Long Way... To a Common Orbit flash group discussion

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Excerpt from Tor.com of A Closed and Common Orbit:
http://www.tor.com/2017/02/23/excerpt...

How to write alien cultures, by Becky Chambers:
http://www.tor.com/2017/03/14/my-alie...

Ummm...I sorta tripped and fell into the book.

O_O

That's good news!

OMG. The sections on Pepper are...fascinating. I totally want to go camp out in the bathroom so I can finish reading (at work).

MrsJoseph, I thought I was the only one who took extra long toilet breaks at work to read a few pages. It's possible that my co-workers think I have chronic, catastrophic constipation. :D

You two are hilarious.

Beth wrote: "MrsJoseph, I thought I was the only one who took extra long toilet breaks at work to read a few pages. It's possible that my co-workers think I have chronic, catastrophic constipation. :D"

lol! Nope, you are not alone.

The sad thing is that we moved offices - and now there's only ONE bathroom. O_O

It has cut my reading time significantly. *sniff*

Becky Chambers, "The Case for Optimism":

http://thebooksmugglers.com/2017/03/s...

Beth wrote: "Becky Chambers, "The Case for Optimism":

http://thebooksmugglers.com/2017/03/s..."

Oh thank you for this! I love it!!

A review of AC&CO from Tor (haven't read it all yet, don't want to hit spoilers!):
AC&CO Review by Niall Alexander

Just wanted to let everyone know that A Close and Common Orbit is a Hugo nomination this year. :D

http://www.tor.com/2017/04/04/2017-hu...

That's great!

Oooh - it's got stiff competition, up against The Obelisk Gate for Best Novel... Both incredible books, I suppose it's whether feel-good or harsh-reality wins out?

(No, I will not even contemplate a book other than these two winning, that would be ridiculous)

I need to read those books, too.

In order to help my own hapless brain in negotiating the threads for this book, I did a Kindle search on the quotes used in the thread openers to get the approximate Kindle location associated with each one. This is mainly for my own reference but I hope this will help others who are also using the e-book.

Format:
[Page number] -- [search text] -- [Kindle location]

unknown, "Jane 23, Age 10" -- questions like that were off -- 254
unknown, "Part 1 Drift: Lovelace" -- gnawing at her pathways -- 357
18 -- dock were thick -- 468
26 -- sweaty from whatever -- 601
39 -- her neck and her hands -- 787
71 -- all anticipating entry -- 1279
85 -- anything to sneak --1501
125 -- the art district -- 2114
158 -- the piece of furniture -- 2656
163 -- Jane ate her mushrooms -- 2738
192 -- the most annoying way -- 3174
206 -- their interstellar kin -- 3401
244 -- running errands for Pepper -- 4023
249 -- cool in the sims --4096
272 -- shrink away from the strangers -- 4412
280 -- sleep was a long way -- 4517
295 -- kind of sleep that ached -- 4684
324 -- my processes are taking -- 5133

Beth wrote: "In order to help my own hapless brain in negotiating the threads for this book, I did a Kindle search on the quotes used in the thread openers to get the approximate Kindle location associated with..."

ooh! Thank you!

I'll pull all of this info into the thread headings this evening, if you don't mind my borrowing your work.

Go for it! It's intended to be useful. :)

Thank you!

Let me know how that works for yall visually.

Nice job, Beth and MrsJ!

:-D