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You know the week has been insane when new Murderbot book has been our for 5 days and I’m only now cracking it open….

Let’s see if I can get a few reviews out to convince people I haven’t fallen off the face of the world yet…

Life on Hart had its own ideas, and most of those ideas had too many legs.

This is the slowest, most leisurely book ever.

Like all naval aviators, Schirra received hazard pay for combat flying or any other mission that could present a high risk of death. In Schirra’s case, the flight atop the Atlas, inside the Mercury, making a record-breaking six full circuits around the earth, earned him bonus pay of $35.31, more than any other astronaut to date.

Appreciate the necessary clarification on pronunciation of Gemini space space program. Unlike astrological “Gemin-eye”, NASA was clear that its official names committee insisted on “the properly named Geminee”. Love it!

Well, Alice, I cracked the obvious meaning of Peter’s “If Alice…” right away. Keep up, it’s obvious. Sheesh.

Initial thoughts:
- I don’t like Alice. There’s a lot of jealous resentment there.
- Is Kuang deliberately shoving enemies-to-lovers at us with all the subtlety of kids mashing their dolls together to force them to kiss?
- I’m assuming whatever falling out Alice and Peter had before was over some misunderstanding.

But she didn’t want to transfer elsewhere, she wanted a Cambridge degree. And she didn’t want any advisor, she wanted Professor Jacob Grimes, department chair, Nobel Prize laureate, and twice-elected president of the Royal Academy of Magick. She wanted the golden recommendation letter that opened every door. She wanted to be at the top of every pile. This meant Alice had to go to Hell, and she had to go today.