The Martian by Andy Weir
Rating: ★★★★☆ – really liked it
Review: No
Format: Print
Reading Dates: May 1 – 5
Read Count: 1
Favorite Thing: Sarcastic!
Least Favorite Thing: “The lunatics at NASA have me doing all kinds of rape to the MAV. . .” Rape? Really? Jackass.
Well the internet was right, the book was funny, I’m glad I read it. Aside from that one sentence, it was a really good book. I would have quoted it a lot more, but I’m fairly certain if you added up all the ‘Martian’ quotes on Goodreads you could reprint full half of this novel (at least).
Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman
Rating: ★★☆☆☆ – it was ok
Review: No
Format: Print
Reading Dates: May 11 – 13
Read Count: 1
Favorite Thing: I just can’t think of anything I liked enough to say was my favorite thing.
Least Favorite Thing: So many…
I just… This wasn’t a bad book by any means. But I just expected to love it and I barely even liked it… I actually preferred the film, which is something I never say.
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Undiscovered Gyrl by Allison Burnett
Rating: ★☆☆☆☆ – did not like it
Review: Yes
Format: Print
Reading Dates: May 7 – 15
Read Count: 1
Favorite Thing: I literally didn’t like any part of it.
Least Favorite Thing: Been a long time since I read a book with so many racist comments. I wasn’t missing it.
I read this because I had seen the movie version and found it tolerable enough that when I saw it was based on a book I decided to try the novel. This was a poor choice on my part.
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I adore The Martian. Andy Weir’s second book, though… not so much.
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Yeah, I actually decided not to read his second book because the description doesn’t sound like something I’d care about. Did you read it?
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I did. It was messy. Really disappointing after how much I enjoyed The Martian. I’ll link my review here if you’re interested, but the short version is that it had excessive info-dumping and the protagonist was really poorly developed.
https://jennabookish.com/2018/05/24/review-artemis-by-andy-weir/
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I appreciate the link, yes! I have been feeling bad about not reading it because The Martian was so good, so anything that makes me feel better about it lol
I hate info-dumping… I used to not mind it but after Prophecy of the Sisters where they just had a little info-dump tea party every few chapters I am so sick of it!
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