Space Station Mir

Happy Top Ten Tuesday! Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! This year, Hanukkah starts almost immediately after Thanksgiving, so that's why I'm moving this post up a bit :-)   Books I Want for Hanukkah 1. Dogs on the Trail: A Year in the Life by Blair Braverman and Quince Mountain 2. Book Lovers Medium Spiral Notebook 3. The Rabbi Who Prayed with Fire by Rachel Sharona Lewis 4. What to Miss When by Leigh Stein 5. The Corgi Chronicles by Laura Madsen

 I started reading The Galaxy, and the Ground Within  in September, but somewhere along the way, I started reading as slowly as I could. I even hid it and started a new book ( One Last Stop ) for over a week before reading the last little section, which made me cry with its tiny perfection. I've loved all of Becky Chambers' Wayfarers books, but this one might be my favorite. Five aliens thrust together at a waystation, due to a technical mishap. Chambers makes that premise live up to every bit of its anthropological, xenobiological, and quintessential promise every step (or paw, or mechanical claw) of the way.  p.s. I can't stop staring at that cover, and I love that one of the ships looks Federation Books Read This Month The Galaxy, and the Ground Within by Becky Chambers One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston On Division by Goldie Goldbloom (book club read) Eternal Life by Dara Horn (book club read for next month)