We wanted to do another bookish meme on Wednesday and after doing Can’t Wait Wednesday a few times we decided that would be a fun one to bring around more often! About twice a month you’ll see this meme on our blog.

Can’t Wait Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Wishful Endings, to spotlight and discuss the books we’re excited about that we have yet to read. Generally they’re books that have yet to be released. It’s based on Waiting on Wednesday, hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine.

From sci-fi visionary and acclaimed author Annalee Newitz comes Automatic Noodle, a cozy near-future novella about a crew of abandoned food service bots opening their very own restaurant.

While San Francisco rebuilds from the chaos of war, a group of food service bots in an abandoned ghost kitchen take over their own delivery app account. They rebrand as a neighborhood lunch spot and start producing some of the tastiest hand-pulled noodles in the city. But there’s just one problem. Someone―or something―is review bombing the restaurant’s feedback page with fake “bad service” reports. Can the bots find the culprit before their ratings plummet and destroy everything they created?

I still have The Future of Another Timeline by Annalee Newitz on my TBR, so I was pretty excited to see another book by this author pop-up. It’s the first time I saw this author anywhere, I haven’t heard anyone talk about them either. This is a Tordotcom novella and you know how much I love those!

I love the colours on this cover. And how cute is the premise? Food service bots who start their own restaurant? And the main problem is that they get bad service reviews? I love the sound of this one. With only 164 pages I expect this to be a fun, quick but also heartfelt read and I can’t wait to dive into it!