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The Escape Game
Marissa Meyer
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We're a Bad Idea, Right?
K.L. Walther
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I was really intrigued by the premise of this, an adult learning to read thanks to the help of social media, but somewhere between premise and reading it, my expectations fell a little flat. I think I was expecting it to be more like the usual format of memoirs I’ve read where it’s the story of someone’s life with an occasional life lesson that their experience can show. Instead I was met with a series of life lessons about the power of reading, with stories from his life to explain them. It sort of felt like his life story was being used in the same sort of way a middle schooler uses quotes in an essay, with minimal depth, and used to boost the rest of the essay because someone said that the essay needed quotes to back up the thesis.
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Unread: A Memoir of Learning (and Loving) to Read on TikTok
Oliver James
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Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir
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So I may be re-reading this three days after I finished it for the first time. Oh well. Anything to try to stave off the impending reading slump I think may be incoming. If anyone has any advice for books that are similar (besides the Martian which I’ve also reread because I don’t want a reading slump) that’d be amazing!
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So I may be re-reading this three days after I finished it for the first time. Oh well. Anything to try to stave off the impending reading slump I think may be incoming. If anyone has any advice for books that are similar (besides the Martian which I’ve also reread because I don’t want a reading slump) that’d be amazing!
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Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir
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The Martian
Andy Weir
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As a non-science, and a non-complicated math person, I really enjoy that all the math used here is explained with context for why the numbers are the specific number and the implications of what the numbers mean in order to show the solution and how that impacts Mark.
Otherwise there’d be several paragraphs that I’d just skip over and ignore any potential impact and meaning carried in them to try to get the bit of relevant impact from the non-math and non-science paragraphs following
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