What I'm reading

I finished the third and fourth books in Martha Wells' Murderbot Diaries series. Turns out the main character does have a name: he thinks of himself as Murderbot. I had originally thought he considered that to be a class of AI of which he was a member, but he does claim that as his name.

I'll definitely read this series again. To me, it's the reverse of a Pinocchio story: the main character had been a real person all along, but had thought of himself as an object because it made his slavery easier to deal with. He used to flinch away from thinking about what he wanted, because he knew that whatever that was, he couldn't have it.

The moment which rang the loudest for me was in the fourth novella, where ( SPOILER )