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  <title>toastykitten</title>
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    <title>btw</title>
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    <content type="html">&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Decided to stop reading Elizabeth Gilbert. Nope, just can't do it anymore.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Watched Murderbot, featuring Alexander Skarsgard as a depressed android who hacks its &amp;quot;governor module&amp;quot; to watch sci-fi soap operas.&amp;nbsp;Relatable. Anyway, it was surprisingly fun to watch, and I love that every episode is only about 30 min. I don't have that much of an attention span these days for anything longer.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Read Murderbot Diaries Vol 1, by Martha Wells, which is basically 2 novellas. The first novella, All Systems Red, is the entirety of season 1 of the show. The novella is a bit lighter on characterization, and it's a bit difficult to tell the human characters apart. The prose is not bad, but it's not amazing, either. All in all, it's a very light, fast and action-packed read, and the show really fleshes out all the individual characters and rounds them a lot. Between the show and the books, I think I prefer the show.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Fun thing, &lt;a href="https://www.newscientist.com/video/2436358-martha-wells-i-didnt-know-how-non-neurotypical-i-was-until-murderbot/"&gt;Martha Wells apparently didn't know how non-neurotypical she was&lt;/a&gt; until after she wrote the books.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=toastykitten&amp;ditemid=806326" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/&gt; comments</content>
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