Wow. I was struck speechless by this book. Mark Watney is stuck on Mars. His crew thinks he is dead. He knows another mission should arrive in about four years. It’s an equation. X food + Y Oxygen – Z Carbon Dioxide + A Water = B Survival Solve for all variables. Inputs to the matrix include available tools and materials, constraints include limited living space, a longer mission time than anything you’re working with was ever designed to function, and a planetary environment that […]
A Man Called Ove makes me read an actual book.
After finishing several audiobooks, I had gotten used to “reading” while accomplishing some other task. So it took several weeks for me to actually read this book, which was a Christmas gift. How time-consuming to SIT DOWN and READ an ACTUAL book…Could I truly devote ALL my attention to it? I was afraid I wouldn’t get the kitchen cleaned or my email checked or God knows what else if I just READ the book myself. Oh no, is this what kids these days think about […]
“Fool that I am,” said he, “that I did not tear out my heart the day I resolved to revenge myself.”
Hi, remember when our book club discussion for this book was December 1st but I didn’t finish the book until January 23rd? And also how I’ve been reading it since November 13th? Because I do. I definitely remember all of that. Ultimately, I’m really glad I did the audio version of this book. I don’t think I could have finished it otherwise. I previously got about 1/3 of the way through this book when I tried reading it in high school, but it defeated me then. The beginning 20% or […]
Going back in time
4.5 stars It appears to me from reading reviews and comments that Landline is a lot of people’s least favorite Rainbow Rowell book. I really liked it though. A lot of reviews commented that they did not like Neal, the main character Georgie’s husband at all. He’s surly and not great at communication and seems to hate everyone and tolerate Georgie when they first meet. Personally, I can understand that feeling. A lot of people are terrible. When Neal in the present takes their two kids […]
Just who is running this show?
3.5 stars. To be completely honest, I’m not sure I would have kept reading this if I wasn’t listening to it on audiobook on loan from my library. It didn’t suit my mood, which like many Americans (and let’s be real, world citizens) at the moment, is dark, dark depression. I powered through Sleeping Giants at 1.6x speed and unlike most times I think of giving up on a book and then don’t, I didn’t regret it. Sleeping Giants begins with a flashback as a […]
A top pick for 2017…and it’s only January!
One of my top five! And it’s only January! This book is soooooo good, you guys. It’s eye opening and tragic and heartwarming and epic and so many other things. Yaa Gyasi (last name sounds like “Jesse”) is a Stanford graduate, born in Ghana and raised in America. On a visit to Ghana, while researching her book, she saw the Cape Coast Castle. This is one of many forts in Africa used by European traders. It is also the genesis of Gyasi’s fictional story, which […]
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