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Next up - some space inspired nonfiction

#ShakepeareAndCompany

Book 4 of my spring Shakespeare & Co “A Year of Reading” bundle, where they send you 4 books/three times a year. This was a fascinating series of articles-well rounded, expansive, & thoughtful. She‘s a good writer. I never would have purchased this book, but I liked it. It is one of those situations where an article would have been great, but a book exceeded my interest level. But for those who are interested, I thoroughly recommend it.

Astronauts on space walks are always and never alone. They go out in pairs, but they‘re still singularly responsible for maintaining their tether to the station. They have their radios to communicate with Mission Control, but that‘s just voice exchange. And back on Earth, 200 miles down, those people don‘t really know what‘s going on inside the suit, inside the body, inside the mind.
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I happened upon a socially-distant type of street festival on my walk to the library. A fun surprise. 🤹‍♀️

Finished reading this book while letting my blackberry crumble cool! 😋 It was good, interesting but didn't blow me away with insights. I wanted more emotional resonance and character from this story about an experiment to simulate life on Mars. Clearly written by a science journalist, not a personal essayist. But the part about human bodies & spaceships as vessels, which weaved in her brother's story who passed away related to his disability-wow.

https://wellreadneck.wordpress.com/2020/07/14/once-upon-a-time-i-lived-on-mars-k...

Today‘s #JulyARC will be released on 7/14.

Love The Wanderers by Meg Howery and the podcast Habitat both about the HI-SEAS program. This memoir from a participant in HI-SEAS I is interesting, for sure, but not quite as insightful or organized as I would have hoped.