Packing for Mars, by Mary Roach
Ah, Mary Roach. It’s been awhile. How you been? Oh, you’ve been gallivanting around the world talking to astronauts and wannabe astronauts and chimponauts and people who pretend to be astronauts for SCIENCE? Tell me more! And she does! There is much more than I would have guessed to tell about space, that final frontier … Read more
Sun of Suns, by Karl Schroeder
I got this audiobook as a free download more than a year ago and tried to read it then, but I quickly got bored of it and moved on to more exciting things. But for some reason I kept it on my iPod, and so when I ran out of things to listen to at … Read more
A Wrinkle in Time, by Madeleine L’Engle (11 September — 12 September)
A Wrinkle in Time was one of my favorite books as a kid, probably because it has a cool girl protagonist and also a super-smart five-year-old, both of which I wanted to be/have been. I re-read it once in undergrad and I remember liking it, but I don’t remember it going by so fast! I … Read more
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams (11 August)
I read this series of books for the first time in my senior year of high school (about five and a half years ago), after meeting a person who carried a towel around with him and asking him just why that was. He explained it was a Hitchhiker’s Guide thing, to which I said, approximately, … Read more
Ender’s Game, by Orson Scott Card (7 August — 8 August)
I found this book in the adult sci-fi section of my library, even though the back of the book clearly states “for ages 10 and up.” I’m not sure what the librarians are trying to say here. Also, the back of the book totally spoiled the end for me, so I suggest not reading that … Read more
Zoe’s Tale, by John Scalzi (5 July — 6 July)
I didn’t intend to re-read this book so soon… but as mentioned in my last post, I was on vacation and ran out of books! I had brought this book just for Scott to read, which he did and of course he loved it, but when our plane got held up in a taxi line … Read more
The Last Colony, by John Scalzi (19 March — 20 March)
Another good book! Hooray! This is the last book for me (but not the actual last book) of the Old Man’s War series. I started with the previously linked book and then went back to the beginning to see what I’d missed. A lot, apparently. Anyway, this book tells the last story of the original … Read more
The Ghost Brigades, by John Scalzi (6 March — 8 March)
I finished up this book really early this morning (really, how does one wake up at 7:30 EDT on the first day of Daylight Savings when she doesn’t usually wake up until 8 or 9 in the first place?), and I must say that I was pretty much ready to move on once I did. … Read more
Red Mars, by Kim Stanley Robinson (21 February — 28 February)
Hmm. I read this book because Scott read it last summer on his trip to China and he said it was pretty good. But. I started reading it and it was not. He claimed that it got better (insert Monty Python joke here), so I buckled down and kept going. It certainly did get better… … Read more
Children of God, by Mary Doria Russell (2 February — 5 February)
Children of God is the follow-up to Russell’s The Sparrow, one of my favorite books of last year and all time. It picks up shortly after the last book left off, with Emilio Sandoz still recovering from what he believes God did to him and trying to reconcile that with his life on Earth, where … Read more
