Book of the Month for October is Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir. I’ll admit I chose it purely because I loved Weir’s first book The Martian so much, however Barack Obama chose it as his summer reading list in 2021 so it can’t be all that bad. Read along with me and have a go at answering the Book Club questions at the end of the month. In the meantime here is a snippet of what you are letting yourself in for:
Hail Mary – the blurb
Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission – and if he fails, humanity and the earth itself will perish.
Except that right now, he doesn’t know that. He can’t even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it.
All he knows is that he’s been asleep for a very, very long time. And he’s just been awakened to find himself millions of miles from home, with nothing but two corpses for company.
His crewmates dead, his memories fuzzily returning, Ryland realizes that an impossible task now confronts him. Hurtling through space on this tiny ship, it’s up to him to puzzle out an impossible scientific mystery-and conquer an extinction-level threat to our species.
And with the clock ticking down and the nearest human being light-years away, he’s got to do it all alone.
Or does he?
Join Us…
I will be sharing my Big Review of Project Hail Mary on the last Friday of the month. A series of Book Club questions will also be around for you to answer on the last Thursday. Don’t wait until then though, I would love to know your marks out of ten as soon as you have read it. So grab your copy and read along with me.