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#25Alive! Day 21: My #FaveWinterFood is seafood ramen - or any kind of soup, really. 💕

This was an emotional read for me! I was in 4th grade in Florida when it happened. My class stepped outside to watch so I saw the explosion live in the sky. And in hindsight there were so many reasons to not launch that day 😔 The story was well told by the author.

With this, I decided to bail. It‘s too painful for me I wanted to cry. My issue with this novel is the delivery. “Its beauty echoes - its beauty is its echoing, its ringing singing lightness.” 🤨 What?! Is she a disciple of Lawrence Durrell?

Buddy-reading this with my colleague. I‘m about 20% in and I feel that the author is trying hard to impress the readers with her sentence structure. I‘m not impressed at all 😭

#25Alive! Day 13: #Memory of her mother is what Japanese astronaut, Chie, had to remember as her mother died while she was on orbit. Finished reading this novel over the weekend for #ToB25 and will hopefully share my thoughts soon over at GatheringBooks.

By the time the design was complete...engineers... still believed they were employing a tried-and-tested joint for their new rocket: they had avoided any potentially dangerous innovation. But this was a convenient delusion.... in creating a man-rated, fail-safe joint they had also modified it so extensively that what they produced was, in effect, a quite new and experimental design.

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Cue the ominous soundtrack...

"Why are you interrupting my bird watching?"

Current library reads with one I just completed (The Mighty Red).

Rotating above the Earth in their spacecraft they are so together, and so alone, but even their thoughts, their internal mythologies, at times convene.

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A short book that felt really long.

Orbital has poignant moments, but, unfortunately, I've already forgotten them.