pick“Do you ever feel crestfallen?” This ephemeral feeling ironically arises among great achievements, starting in your belly, raising to your chest, only to sink down back into your core. You think feats of space travel, or even just plane travel, would inspire wonder. Instead the bigness of the universe makes you feel small. I‘ve felt crestfallen, not by witnessing greatness, but after really trying and going for it, only to fail.
pickFinished my first book of the year a few days ago! Atmosphere was a 4 1/2 star for me, so a great start to the year! I loved the buildup to the romance as well as the subplot between Joan, Bridget, and Francis. #bookstagram #atmosphere #taylorjenkinsreid #space #spaaaaace
so-soThis one was ok. I‘m definitely interested to see where the next one leads but I was a bit bored for most of this first installment.
pickThis was a great combination of science fiction and fantasy. Lunar Jones has grown up on Mars, struggling to survive and help the other kids he lives with. Then one day he stumbles into a secret bunker and learns more about the dragons that are paired with each planet and moon, and his life will never be the same. There are some great friendships that develop as well as interplanetary adventure.
#MiddleGrade
pickMy favorite 2025 middle grade read was a high stakes combination of fantasy and science fiction. Humanity has expanded to has colonies on other planets and moons and each plant and moon as one dragon attached to it. But Mars' dragon has died and the people there have been abandoned by earth. This is their fight to survive through the eyes of one young boy, his secret young dragon, and his band of mismatched friends.
#middlegrademonday @daisey
Back to work, but not my regular work. I‘m subbing today. Didn‘t sleep last night so this should be interesting.
#backtowork
pickIt brings me joy to listen to this audiobook around Christmas. I just love the thought of the whole world watching something amazing. I prefer the audiobook for this one because the ending has recordings from the mission including the astronauts reading from Genesis on Christmas Day.
I have one hour and 5 minutes left in my audiobook and my wish is to be done wrapping and I bed with my jolabokaflood by then.
“Katherine loved to count. She counted everything.”
“Katherine yearned to know as much as she could about numbers, about the universe – about everything!”
