#6 The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers

Rosemary is a recent grad looking for a job that will take her far away from Mars and her mysterious past. She is a file clerk on a ship that makes wormholes for traveling through space. The reader learns about the various aliens that live on the ship through the eyes of Rosemary as she learns it and as the crew learns about her. This was great to read as a series of small adventures wit the crew, some exciting bits but not constant being on the edge of your seat as Rosemary finds out about the wider galaxy instead of just reading about all of in it school. I have the next one read when I want a nice comfort SF read.

#7 The Beautiful Ones by Prince, Dan Piepenbring

The Beautiful Ones by Prince, Dan Piepenbring, Esperanza Spalding (narrator), Adepero Oduye (narrator)


I grabbed the audio for this but ended up checking the book out because I really wanted to see all the photos in it. I was never a huge Prince fan but I enjoyed his music and the first part of the book gives you a bit of an outsider looking in on the life of Prince before he died. He was working with Dan Piepenbring to write his autobiography and there are some parts of this that talk about his early years. There is a section that covers the development of Purple Rain. I think it would have been better if the publisher did the book in a larger format to take advantage of the larger format for all the reproductions of the handwritten pages reproduced in here. The bits at the end of excerpts of past interviews with photos tries to give a bit more of his insights about his lift that wasn’t written down.