Same here, really enjoyed monk and robot and the long way to a small angry planet (although I felt like it dragged a little in the middle).

I feel like her writing has an underlying optimism to it that’s been really connecting with me. Something I’ve been thinking a lot about recently is just the importance of imagining futures we might actually want to exist in, and I think her books often present that in a realistic way. There’s still conflict, but it’s the smaller scale human conflict (or just sentient beings) of existing together. After so much dystopian and space opera sci fi it’s been refreshing to read. Reminiscent of Ursula k le guin in that regard.