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4.54 AVERAGE
4.54 AVERAGE
adventurous
hopeful
sad
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
adventurous
emotional
informative
reflective
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I really enjoyed reading this. Girls can be astronauts too fuck yes.
This is a love story between two women. Two incredible women that dream for the stars, literally. They fight all gender roles, they fight misogyny, they fight men and the patriarchy to be able to prove to the world that yes, women can be astronauts too!!!! And I think that was so fucking cool.
I loved the relationship Joan had with her niece Frances. So wholesome, so pure and they both supported each other through thick and thin and I grew to love that little thing so fucking much.
This has not been a 5 star read because I feel like I didn't feel as much as I thought I would. Like I did not feel that burning thing inside me while reading the love build up. Maybe there was not enough tension for me? I don't know why that happened but it is why it's not 5 stars. But maybe it's a me thing so yeah.
I just really love women in STEM fighting every fucking stereotype and I appreciate books that talk about women in STEM because I am one and I feel represented in these kinds of books. That burning passion to discover and explore the universe and the laws that rule it. I find it fascinating and reading this book showed me that I might be understood finally. There were some philosophical and existential discussions in this book that strangely enough I mostly did not agree with Joan but I understood her because I think about those philosophical and existential topics myself with myself and I have made my own opinions about it and yeah I just felt seen in this book.
“When you die, someone will bury you or turn your body into ashes. Eventually, you will return to the Earth. You already are a part of the Earth. What better reason do we have to take care of this Earth and everything on it than the knowledge that we are of one another?”
—Taylor Jenkins Reid in Atmosphere
This is a love story between two women. Two incredible women that dream for the stars, literally. They fight all gender roles, they fight misogyny, they fight men and the patriarchy to be able to prove to the world that yes, women can be astronauts too!!!! And I think that was so fucking cool.
I loved the relationship Joan had with her niece Frances. So wholesome, so pure and they both supported each other through thick and thin and I grew to love that little thing so fucking much.
This has not been a 5 star read because I feel like I didn't feel as much as I thought I would. Like I did not feel that burning thing inside me while reading the love build up. Maybe there was not enough tension for me? I don't know why that happened but it is why it's not 5 stars. But maybe it's a me thing so yeah.
I just really love women in STEM fighting every fucking stereotype and I appreciate books that talk about women in STEM because I am one and I feel represented in these kinds of books. That burning passion to discover and explore the universe and the laws that rule it. I find it fascinating and reading this book showed me that I might be understood finally. There were some philosophical and existential discussions in this book that strangely enough I mostly did not agree with Joan but I understood her because I think about those philosophical and existential topics myself with myself and I have made my own opinions about it and yeah I just felt seen in this book.
“When you die, someone will bury you or turn your body into ashes. Eventually, you will return to the Earth. You already are a part of the Earth. What better reason do we have to take care of this Earth and everything on it than the knowledge that we are of one another?”
—Taylor Jenkins Reid in Atmosphere
adventurous
emotional
hopeful
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
adventurous
emotional
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Loveable characters:
Yes
adventurous
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
sad
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
This was lovely, I loved to read about these characters, the way Joan saw the world, her relationship with Frances and Vanessa, and everyone else really. The thoughts about the women there being on a male dominated field, there were a lot of pearls here
challenging
emotional
informative
inspiring
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
The novel is a female character driven love story set against the backdrop of the early 1980s NASA Space Shuttle missions. If I were to break it down, I would say that it was...
20% Space Program.
20% Family Drama.
60% Romance.
The story is told in dual time with chapters flipping back and forth between present day and the recent past. It starts off with something going wrong aboard an orbiting Shuttle before flashing back several years to tell the story of everything that lead up to that Shuttle mission.
The story does take some influences from real life events that actually happened, e.g. Star Trek's Nichelle Nichols involvement in NASA to attract women to join the Space Program is used as the plot device to get the female characters into NASA.
I did feel that the ending was rushed. It absolutely needed a decent epilogue to wind the story down. The way the story ends didn't really feel right and needed a bit more warmth, which a epilogue would have provided.
20% Space Program.
20% Family Drama.
60% Romance.
The story is told in dual time with chapters flipping back and forth between present day and the recent past. It starts off with something going wrong aboard an orbiting Shuttle before flashing back several years to tell the story of everything that lead up to that Shuttle mission.
The story does take some influences from real life events that actually happened, e.g. Star Trek's Nichelle Nichols involvement in NASA to attract women to join the Space Program is used as the plot device to get the female characters into NASA.
I did feel that the ending was rushed. It absolutely needed a decent epilogue to wind the story down. The way the story ends didn't really feel right and needed a bit more warmth, which a epilogue would have provided.