I’ve read every book on the CBR Bingo “So Popular” list excluding Divergent, which I have no interest in, and I’ve already read and reviewed Bossypants and Gone Girl this year! I imagine I am not the only person in this particular boat and I look forward to everyone’s re-reads of these popular books. I decided to go with The Martian because I had heard good things about the audio-book and figured if I was doing a re-read I would change up the medium. “Actually, I was the very lowest ranked member of […]
So close!
I really loved Andy Weir’s The Martian – it was fast paced, it was funny, the science was compelling, and the diary format really worked in terms of telling the story and highlighting Mark’s isolation. I was very excited to receive this book from my Secret Book Santa; Artemis should have been a sure fire hit for me. But it wasn’t, this time. This is a caper story, in essence, set on a city called Artemis that is located on the moon. The city is […]
Read The Martian instead
I was very excited to pick up Artemis (2017) by Andy Weir because I loved his first book, The Martian, even though science fiction isn’t normally my thing. The combination of the life and death struggle, the realistic science, and the funny and smart protagonist was fantastic. It was one of my favorite books of the year. However, Artemis did not hold up to my high expectations. Jasmine Bashara has been living on Artemis, a colony on the moon, since she was six years old. Now in her twenties, working as […]
Sophomore slump, I guess
I loved The Martian. It was the book that got me reading again after a years-long drought. I raved about it to my family and friends and drove them nuts with my uninvited opinions when I heard they were going to turn it into a movie. So I was very excited when I learned Andy Weir had a new book coming out and preordered it as soon as the option was available. However, I was sad to find myself disappointed by Artemis. While the science-y […]
“Hey, if you want to play life safe, don’t live on the moon.”
I was in a bit of a reading slump this past week; nothing I had on hand was grabbing my attention more than the new season of Grace & Frankie so I spent my downtime binge watching instead of binge reading. I knew I was in trouble when I was pulling up Hulu on my lunch break to catch up on Late Night With Seth Meyers instead of reading the book in my purse (Word by Word, don’t expect a review). Then I picked up Artemis from the […]
Liked, not loved.
Okay, so, luckily I read some mediocre reviews of this before starting it and I adjusted my expectations accordingly. I was way too pumped for this book, and frankly, my expectations for it were unrealistically high. Books that you ALL CAPS LOVE don’t come along that often, and the chances that an author will deliver a second one, particularly after the first was a debut novel, aren’t super high. I ALL CAPS LOVED The Martian, but I just had a pretty good time with this book. […]
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