Tag: The Martian

• Book Review: Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

  I am seriously late to this party as my first book for February is Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir, published by Ballantine Books in May of 2021. I don’t know why it took me so long to read this stellar (lol) sci-fi novel except that I typically shy away from huge blockbuster hits that…

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  February 2, 2026

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  Andy Weir, book-review, books, Dr. Ryland Grace, fiction, Hail Mary, junior high, literature, Mark Watney, Matt Damon, middle school, novel, Project Hail Mary, reading, sci-fi, science teacher, teacher, teaching, The Martian, writing

• Book Review: The Correspondent by Virginia Evans

  At the start of each new year, I look back over the books I read the previous year and some years, I make a top ten list, not necessarily ranking them but always coming up with my favorite book of the year. Oh, boy, I will be having lots of trouble in January due to…

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  November 4, 2025

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  84 Charing Cross Road, Andrew Carnegie Medal, book-review, books, Bridget Jones Diary, Catherine Called Birdy, Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, debut novel, Elizabeth Strout, epistolary style, fiction, Goodreads, Karen Cushman, literature, Love and Saffron, novel, Olive Again, Olive Kitteridge, reading, teaching, The Correspondent, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, The Martian, Today Will Be Different, Virginia Evans, Where’d You Go Bernadette, writer, writing