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

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Perhaps this is an intentional feeling by Chambers: after all, people enter our lives, impact us, and then leave all the time.

The interactions and conversation between Dex and Mosscap are poignant, putting into words the doubt we can all have around our self-worth when we feel we are not being productive. I really like how Chambers looks at the problem from all angles with the aim to find a solution that is acceptable to Mosscap and its moral/robot sensibilities. Lovely sci if set in a mysterious post something (yet to be explained hoping for more information in future books) Earth. Becky Chambers continues to impress with her second book, ‘A Prayer for the Crown-Shy’, in the Monk and Robot series.it's a comforting story about comfort and care, as soothing to read as it is to think about, and so full of hope and wonder and potential discovery. Along the way, they meet a range of different characters, including Dex’s family, who all offer different answers to the question. But unlike Psalm, where so much of the dialogue was limited by the isolation of Dex and Mosscap, Prayer lacks that isolation as the pair travels through town after town, seeking wisdom from others. Chambers’ writing is always tender and healing, but this book has something else braided into it — something more. Their heavily laden double-decker wagon no longer shuddered as they willed it across chaotic surfaces rent by the march of roots and the meandering of soil.

It's a hopeful vision of humanity after a near apocalypse, where they have finally learned to co-exist sustainably on earth. It is never overbearing or preachy, the writing gently conveys to the reader the struggles that the main characters experience in determining who they are and what they want to be. They left their role working in the gardens of a monastery in Book 1, ‘A Psalm for the Wild Built’ and started a new vocation as a travelling Tea Monk.After A Psalm for the Wild-Built comes this tale of hope and acceptance in the second volume of the USA Today bestselling Monk and Robot series. This tale propels us gently through an optimistic take on humanity, one that carefully considers our precious ecology and ethos, focusing more on giving to the community than getting. By their species’s standards, the trees in the place that Dex and Mosscap had entered were slim teenagers, less than two hundred years old.

I know she didn't suddenly develop sentience and was hinting to me with that phrase, but a part of me wants to believe that's what it was.As Mosscap fussed with connecting the biogas tank to the fire drum, Dex pulled out their pocket computer and opened their mailbox. One day last week Alexa caught me off guard with something like, "Thank you for always being so appreciative. If this was what passed as manicured, they couldn’t imagine what Mosscap was going to make of, say, a rose garden, or a public park.