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Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir (2021): A Review

Title : Project Hail Mary Author : Andy Weir Publication Year: 2021 Rating : ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Pages : 496 Source : audiobook @storytel.tr Genre : science fiction Awards : winner of the Dragon Award, Goodreads Choice Awards, Audie Award, & Seiun Award Best Translated Long Work; Finalist for the Canopus Award, Hugo Award, Xingyun Award, & Premio Italia International Science Fiction Novel Finally, I listened to PHM and joined the fan club. This book is ridiculous levels of fun. Our main guy, Ryland Grace, is basically a Deadpool-ish chaos ex-academic now a high school teacher, but with actual degrees, better manners, and a lab coat. He’s wildly scientific, absurdly resourceful, and somehow still spends half the book roasting himself so hard I was giggling out loud. The two “voices” of Grace—especially the self-deprecating one—had me belly-laughing while he’s out there, you know, casually trying to stop the end of the world on an interstellar field trip. Did I immensely enjoy the b...
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The Accidental by Ali Smith (2005): A Review

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Title : The Accidental Author : Ali Smith Publication Year: 2005 Rating : ⭐⭐⭐⭐💫 Pages : 305 Source : book Genre : literary fiction, postmodern, experimental Awards : winner of the Whitbread Award; shortlisted for the Orange Prize, the Man Booker Prize, & James Tait Black Memorial Prize In Ali Smith’s  The Accidental , apparently, nothing is accidental, and everything is unbelievably weird.  I’ve read five of her novels so far, and every single time I think, “Okay, this one is the weirdest,” only to pick up the next book and realize she has somehow leveled up on weird again. What I adore about Smith is her style. I love books that leave me completely confused at the end, doubting my own reading comprehension, and low‑key wondering if I’m just not smart enough to know whether I understood anything at all. That’s my happy place, apparently. Unlike her other novels, which often begin in the future or at the end and then rewind to the beginning or the middle, this o...
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Today in Bookish and Literary History, May 13

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1982 Union Street by Pat Barker | UK | 265 | 🏆🏆 2010 The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell | UK | 480 | 🏆🏆🏆 2021 Greta & Valdin By Rebecca K. Reilly | NZ | 352 | 🏆🏆 | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ | 2025 Run for the Hills by Kevin Wilson | US | 256 | 2025 When the Cranes Fly South by Lisa Ridzén | Sweden | 320 | 🏆 2025 The Devils by Joe Abercrombie | UK | 565 | 🏆 2025 No Straight Road Takes You There: Essays for Uneven Terrain by Rebecca Solnit | US | 184 | 2025 The Remembered Soldier by Anjet Daanje | Dutch | 576 | 🏆🏆🏆🏆 2025 Sleep Phase by Mohamed Kheir | EGY | 240 | 2025 The Emperor of Gladness by Ocean Vuong | Vietnam | 416 | 🏆 2025 Mark Twain by Ron Chernow | US | 1200 | 🔗 Check this list for Today in Bookish History for May: https://fable.co/list/a5d1d8e4-c55f-49d2-a70f-dce76774ec64/share
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Today in Bookish and Literary History, May 12

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1908 Getting Married by George Bernard Shaw | Ireland | 159 | 2015 The Familiar, Volume 1: One Rainy Day in May by Mark Z. Danielewski | US | 880 | 2017 Hurricane Season by Fernanda Melchor | MEX | 224 | 🏆🏆🏆🏆 2020 Ridgerunner by Gil Adamson | CAN | 456 | 🏆🏆 2020 A Children's Bible by Lydia Millet | US | 240 | 🏆 2020 Catherine House by Elisabeth Thomas | US | 320 | 2020 My Baby First Birthday by Jenny Zhang | US | 208 | 2020 Book of the Little Axe by Lauren Francis-Sharma | US | 400 | 2020 The Anthill by Julianne Pachico | UK | 320 | 2020 Sorry for Your Trouble: Stories by Richard Ford | US | 272 | 2026 A Very Vexing Murder by Lucy Andrew | UK | 425 | 2026 The Forgotten Midwife by Laura Anthony | Ireland | 368 | 2026 Men Like Ours by Bindu Bansinath | US | 384 | 2026 The Lost Book of Lancelot: by John Glynn | US | 384 | 2026 Ignore All Previous Instructions by Ada Hoffmann | CAN | 320 | 2026 The Last Page by Katie Holt | US | 336 | 2026 Reality Bite...
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Today in Bookish and Literary History, May 11

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1611 The Winter's Tale by Shakespeare | UK | 288 | 1942 Go Down, Moses by William Faulkner | US | 365 | 1950 The Bald Soprano by Eugene Ionesco | FR | 162 | 2015 The Pear Field by Nana Ekvtimishvili | Georgia | 163 | 2021 People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry | US | 2021 The Plot by Jean Hanff Korelitz | US | 322 | 2021 Letters to Camondo by Edmund de Waal | UK | 192 | 2023 This Is My Body, Given For You by Heather Parry | Scotland | 192 | 2023 Music in the Dark by Sally Magnusson | Scotland | 336 | 🔗 Check this list for Today in Bookish History for May: https://fable.co/list/a5d1d8e4-c55f-49d2-a70f-dce76774ec64/share
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