I never thought I’d cry over another AI after Jarvis’s “death” in Avengers: Age of Ultron, yet here we are! My love for Horatio knows no bounds, and the best part of his characterization is that Liu made me have sympathy for Hayden (our Hamlet). Typically, I just don’t give a damn about Hamlet. He’s […]
Title: The Martian Author: Andy Weir Publisher: Broadway Books Published: 2011 Pages: 369 This book was such a fun book to read! I wasn’t expecting it to be as enjoyable as it was, but I was happily wrong. The book centers on Mark Watney, a botanist and mechanical engineer, who has a dark sense of […]
Title: The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet Author: Becky Chambers Publisher: Harper Voyager Published: 5 July 2016 Pages: 443 Oh! My! Goodness! I had not really heard about this book but kept seeing it on people’s 2020 year end reviews. The library I work at recently acquired it, so I over the Christmas […]
Title: Upright Women Wanted Author: Sarah Gailey Publisher: Tor Published: 4 February 2020 I’ve known about this book for a while and was super excited to read it. Yet, it wasn’t what I expected. Esther is a stowaway on a librarian’s book wagon, trying to escape a marriage arranged by her father — a marriage […]
Title: Gideon the Ninth Author: Tamsyn Muir Publisher: Tor Published: 10 September 2019 Pages: 448 Okay, I’ll try not to gush too much about this book, but I make no promises. First off, I was completely confused at the beginning. Not going to lie, I was reading to mostly try to hopefully understand in later […]
Title: The Midnight Library Author: Matt Haig Publisher: Viking Published: 29 Sept. 2020 I was a bit disappointed with this book. The concept sounds amazing! ‘Between life and death, there is a library , and within that library, the shelves go on forever. Every book provides a chance to try another life you could have […]