Etiquette?

[galadhir]

Is it okay to just slide into a complete stranger's DW over here and comment on their latest post as if you've known them for years? Or would a "hello, I hope you don't mind that I subscribed to you, I saw that we shared an interest in [whatever]" need to come first?

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[westerling]

Hooray for multiple teams! I play the fiddle kind of badly for my team sometimes but we have a completely wonderful and competent musician most of the time, so usually I dance and everybody's happier. :D

Coincidentally Kobo (what I use for audiobooks) just offered 2 of the Murderbot books at a good sale price so I bought them, and am looking forward to hearing them. I read them all, some of them twice and I have the new one preordered. I also loved the Goblin Emperor, which I saw in your list, and Arkady Martine's A Memory Called Empire. Last few months, I've leaned heavily into audiobooks, though. I'm hoping to get more focus and attention span again soon so I can actually sit and read. What crazy times.

[galadhir]

Oh gosh! Playing the fiddle badly is a higher level of musicianship than playing the melodeon at all :)

I have all the Murderbot audiobooks, and I have all the books :) It's a different experience reading them to the experience of hearing them, but both are good. Also, I don't think it's so much a matter of focus and attention span, rather having enough free time to dedicate to reading. I can listen to an audiobook when I'm cleaning the kitchen, or cooking, or digging the garden etc, so audiobooks make it possible to read a book while simultaneously doing something else.

Also ooh. Yes, I adore The Goblin Emperor, which makes me think that since I share that with you too, I might like A Memory Called Empire which I hadn't heard of before. So I've just bought that! Fingers crossed :)

[westerling]

I have the second Arkady Martine waiting for me at the bookshop, can't wait. If I can only get myself time to read it. Her work has a certain feel similar to Lois McMaster Bujold's Vorkosigan saga, if you're familiar with that series. Kind of classics at this point.

And yes I use audiobooks all the time now and that's sometimes the only way I can get anything done at all!

[galadhir]

I have bought the audiobook of the first one, but then I got distracted by listening to the Murderbot diaries again from the beginning, so I won't get around to reading it until finishing Network Effect. I do like Lois McMaster Bujold, though so I feel pretty confident about it. I'm looking forward to it :)