The Galaxy Game by Karen Lord
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lightreadsThe Galaxy Game by Karen Lord
2/5. Scifi about complicated galactic politics and psionic network effects and a lot of other subtle things that (I think?) were present in this book but that I really did not clock at all.
The last Lord book I read was enjoyable but I remember basically nothing about it, which I thought was an artifact of how I read most of it the day before Casterbrook was born. Except I don't think it was me. My brain slid off this book like it was greased. The Robin Miles narration didn't help – as usual, she is doing a good job, but there is something in her performance, particularly her commitment to accents (that aren't textually signaled, as far as I can tell) that requires a higher threshold of attention than other narrators do.
The result is that I read what I think was a pleasant book doing a lot of subtle political/interpersonal things of which I comprehended almost none.
2/5. Scifi about complicated galactic politics and psionic network effects and a lot of other subtle things that (I think?) were present in this book but that I really did not clock at all.
The last Lord book I read was enjoyable but I remember basically nothing about it, which I thought was an artifact of how I read most of it the day before Casterbrook was born. Except I don't think it was me. My brain slid off this book like it was greased. The Robin Miles narration didn't help – as usual, she is doing a good job, but there is something in her performance, particularly her commitment to accents (that aren't textually signaled, as far as I can tell) that requires a higher threshold of attention than other narrators do.
The result is that I read what I think was a pleasant book doing a lot of subtle political/interpersonal things of which I comprehended almost none.