A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers

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This "slice of life" sci-fi is so cosy and warming. I tend to read heavy and long books, so this one was just a breath of fresh air. Usually I find myself a bit upset whenever a book doesn't answer all questions or doesn't tie up loose ends (for example, what caused the world to be like this? what triggered robots to gain a higher consciousness?), but in this case I was just pretty satisfy with the story itself. It is just a monk who serves tea and doesn't exactly know their purpose and a robot who gets excited with a bit of everything. We can hyper analyse it and discuss all the (important) topics that are mentioned throughout the book, but we can also just enjoy this little story exactly for what it is, and that's the beauty of it for me. The sci-fi bit of it just makes it perfect.
The only thing I wished it was added at some point was them both seeing/hearing crickets, or at least a mention of them evnetually passing though a place with crickets, idk. I feel like since that was what triggered Dex to finally do something else and Mosscap loved bugs, it would have make sense for it to be mentioned again

Also! I love the title. In a way, humans are also wild-built, because we absorb so much from our ancestrals, from our families, our cultures, we are unique in our own way, but at the same time we're made and built according to our surroundings. In the end, Mosscap was the one preaching and opening Dex's views of the world, and I find that so beautiful.