Becky Chambers’ To Be Taught, If Fortunate is a wonderful and ethereal-feeling story about time and connection, but it’s mostly a speculative book about science, which is part of why I liked it so much. You’ll see this as we keep going, eventually. Terrible fantasy is my jam more than anything, but I absolutely adore speculative science. Technically speculative is a whole part of the genre "science fiction," but what I mean is I adore stories that are about science. Not just new and inventive biology or technology or whatnot, but about the act of science. I plan on reviewing Into the Drowning Deep later and I'll go into more detail on that one, but suffice to say. This is a genre that I absolutely adore. And so I say that I know what I'm talking about when I say that speculative science fiction can be really bad if it's not done right. It's a hard genre to do! To Be Taught, If Fortunate is not really bad. It is really good. I really, really liked this b
I always wanted to make a review blog, because I have opinions on books and stories, but I didn’t, for some reason. Then I decided, “Hey, 'some reason' is a shit reason to not follow your dreams,” and I made one anyway. I’m not a professional reviewer. Or an English major (much as I enjoy literature), or like… anyone really qualified to do proper book reviews. Fortunately this is a personal blog, which means regardless of my credentials I can do whatever I want. To whoever's reading, I hope you enjoy reading my reviews as much as I enjoy writing them.