“I just woke up from a coma. I am several lightyears from my apartment. And I’m not an astronaut.” Last week I had the privilege of going out to the movies with friends to see the much-lauded film adaptation of Andy Weir’s bestselling novel Project Hail Mary. Brought to you…
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1995 Pulitzer Prize Review: The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields
“My mother’s name was Mercy Stone Goodwill” (opening line). Winner of both the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award (in addition to being shortlisted for the Booker Prize), Carol Shields’s The Stone Diaries presents the fictional biography of Daisy Goodwill, a seemingly ordinary woman whose…
Goosebumps Review #17: Why I’m Afraid of Bees (1994) by R.L. Stine
“If you’re afraid of bees, I have to warn you – there are a lot of bees in this story. In fact, there are hundreds.” Gary Lutz (“Lutz the Klutz”) is a clumsy, lonely, ostracized twelve-year-old boy. He doesn’t have many friends and he is often mocked, crashes his bike,…
Star Trek Book Review: World Without End (1979) by Joe Haldeman
“Even if we could modify the food so we could live on it, we may still be trapped here for the rest of our lives. Along with whoever comes to rescue us.” Stardate: 7502.9 Following the end of a four-week benchmark survey of “Sector 3” where the crew witnessed a…