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Do not read this to the halfway point and then send your daughter to summer camp. Especially if she is not vaccinated against meningitis. Especially if the pediatrician just told you it’s now a suggested vaccine where you live but she is in between the ages where the health insurance pays for them because they weren’t on the schedule when she was little.

My 10-year-old and I have been looking forward to a few chapter of this every night. It’s funny and exciting.

I think the type reminds me of Gary Shteyngart. Lots of hilarious observations.

My daughter (10) and I love it so far. It’s funny and exciting.

This book is hilarious and insightful. “Everything is wrestling!”

Years ago, I decided not to read any more WWII books. But today, I made an exceotipn because it Alice Hoffman. It‘s good but also making me feel terrible!

Not as good as Project Hail Mary. Nearly the same narrator, but it’s 90% walking through the science to solve astronaut problems.

Racing against library due date!

Coincidentally, one of the other books I’m reading also has a married father of two impregnating a teenage girl. In this one, the girl has to raise the baby alone.

It FEELS like I’m close to finishing but I am not! Suspenseful and magical. I love it.

Wait! Drinking coffee and smoking the day you bury your mother makes you a bad person??

The beginning is awesome. Loving it so far!

Narration switches between first and third person. Kind of weird device. Does the TV show do that?

I read this in college and forgot most of the plot.

So far Bagger has proved himself a terrible soldier with disgraceful morals but he cares for orphaned 14-year-old Arno and wants to help the angel they find in the battlefield so I like him.

OK, despite the experimental prose, I’m getting into it!

and it takes some balls to start your book with a lowercase “and,” which will lay the groundwork of pissing off your reader or providing them with something to be pretentious about, hell, why not write the sorry a one long sentence fragment

Reminds me of Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.

Russians versus Jews. Lots of violence. A golem is created to fight back.

Pretty good but not my usual reading.

Definitely up my alley.

I’m not sure what to make of Natalie. She seems to be set apart from every group she’s in: Harvard, her local acquaintances, her social media account, her own family. Does she even know what she wants? Does that exist?

I love how the main character manages to find a like-minded alien friend out in space!

I know Ryan Gosling plays the hero in the movie, but the narrative voice in my head is William H. Macy.