Not even through with the prologue and I'm already emotional
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Not even through with the prologue and I'm already emotional
pickI truly liked this a whole lot more than I thought I would. Someone picked it for book club.
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pickI‘m usually a bit meh about TJR books and likely would have skipped this one —but a story that includes the space program, the first female astronauts AND the 1980s? How fast can I get my library card out of my bag? Several of the characters are underdeveloped and the story is uneven in parts, but I was invested all the way to the final sentence on the last page. It was a wild ride.
pickMy mistake- thinking “I‘ve only got 35min left of this audio - I‘ll finish on the way to work” knowing that the ending could be an ending, and I‘m still very much grieving the loss of our dog recently…. Folks, I was a mess. No matter what the ending was going to be, I was a mess. That‘s on me. And also, not a great way to start a day of work. It‘s my first TJR (despite 3 of hers on my shelf) and I fell deeply into the story. Not perfect but good
so-soI found myself struggling to pick it up. I‘ve read that it gets much better but I was not excited enough to get to that point
pickJoan Goodwin has been obsessed with the stars for as long as she can remember. Thoughtful and reserved, Joan is content with her life as a professor of physics and astronomy at Rice University and as aunt to her precocious niece, Frances. That is, until she comes across an advertisement seeking the first women scientists to join NASA‘s space shuttle program. Suddenly, Joan burns to be one of the few people to go to space.📖
pick🎧🚨Unpopular opinion: Outside of Daisy Jones, I‘m not a TJR fan. Daisy Jones‘ oral history/interview style forced TJR into a different writing style. The others, I can‘t handle the drama of it all. The writing is so dramatic; the way the characters speak to each is so dramatic. For me, this suffers the same fate as Broken Country. The MC is too perfect. Continued in comments:
She can see the past, but it is now tinged with the excruciating inevitability of the present moment 💔
Because it feels good to love someone…It feels better than anything on this Earth. And I bet better than anything up there 🚀💫🔭
pickThe story of Christa McAuliffe‘s journey to be the first teacher in space. Well written, not too much fluff. The interesting part was reading about the aftermath and the last 2 minutes that I had never read about. We heard about the o-rings but the remains found tell a story of what those astronauts went through. 😣
