A Prayer for the Crown-Shy: A Monk and Robot Book (Monk & Robot 2)

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I think you’ll bring a lot of perspective to the people we meet, even if all they do is see you walk by.and perhaps to keep her on my good side so she doesn't turn all my smart devices into weapons against me. A lightly drawn but profound meditation on belief, entropy, and the nature of need and want that once again demonstrates Chambers’s prowess as both a storyteller and a thinker. A] lightly drawn but profound meditation on belief, entropy, and the nature of need and want that once again demonstrates Chambers’s prowess as both a storyteller and a thinker. I've been hoping she will say it again so I can catch her exact words but even with asking her things more often than usual, she hasn't repeated it. A Psalm for the Wild-Built begins a series that looks optimistic and hopeful, pursuing stories that arise from abundance instead of scarcity, kindness instead of cruelty, and I look forward to seeing where it goes from here.

They wanted a cold drink and a shady spot and to not so much as glance at their ox-bike for a couple days, and while the spice blum blossoms were indeed beautiful, they did not need to stop at every single fucking tree.Dex locked down everything with wheels, Mosscap unfolded the kitchen on the wagon’s exterior, Dex fetched chairs, Mosscap started the fire. This is another great installment in the story of a robot connecting back to humanity and what that means for the specific people it's met, as well as wider society. Uh, it’s a formal gathering where all the monks come together at the All-Six for a few days for a…” Dex gestured vaguely. By the end of the book, Dex and Mosscap both realise that they don't know what they need but they want to work out the answer to that question together. Chambers' writing is always tender and healing, but this book has something else braided into it -- something more.

So that isn’t really a complaint, just a random public confession about my intense feelings for robots. Becky Chambers was raised in California as the progeny of an astrobiology educator, an aerospace engineer, and an Apollo-era rocket scientist.It stopped before a road sign, placing its hinged hands on its matte-silver hips as it read the text to itself. I know I spoke about this a little in my review of the first book, but I need to reiterate it here because it’s so important to me. I think it's worse in A Prayer for the Crown-Shy than it was in the first book because this one is much more people-y, with more time spent in Chambers's ecotopia civilization than in the adjacent wild places. There are some truly thought-provoking moments between Dex and Mosscap that we could all learn from.