Tuesday 13 January 2015

The Martian-Andy Weir

Published: Feb 11, 2014
Publisher: Crown
369 pages
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Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first men to walk on the surface of Mars. Now, he's sure he'll be the first man to die there.

It started with the dust storm that holed his suit and nearly killed him, and that forced his crew to leave him behind, sure he was already dead. Now he's stranded millions of miles from the nearest human being, with no way to even signal Earth that he's alive--and even if he could get word out, his food would be gone years before a rescue mission could arrive. Chances are, though, he won't have time to starve to death. The damaged machinery, unforgiving environment, or plain-old "human error" are much more likely to get him first.

But Mark isn't ready to give up yet. Drawing on his ingenuity, his engineering skills--and a relentless, dogged refusal to quit--he steadfastly confronts one seemingly insurmountable obstacle after the next. But will his resourcefulness be enough to overcome the impossible odds against him?


This book was strangely captivating. Its basically just a survival story of this man Mark Watneys time on mars (fictional).
Some of the things that are talked about in this book are a little confusing there are a lot of technical things talked about. There were a lot of moments where i was reading and thinking 'how is this so interesting?' but it really was! I really could not put this book down even at the most boring of parts in the book.
 I had to know what would happen with him.
I feel like book will stay with me for a long time and i can't exactly explain why.
I love Marks character he's funny and witty even in such a dire circumstance and reading about the people pulling together to help was really just a great read. Even the way Mars in explained it just paints such an amazingly fascinating picture in your mind.

I definitely recommend you pick this book up!

*****
Five stars

Saturday 3 January 2015

Top books of 2014

Because i only read 29 books in 2014 i thought id narrow my favourites down to top 5. I unfortunately only read a few books that really stood out to me in 2014.
So here is my top 5 books of 2014 in no particular order.

I am malala-Malala Yousafzai


Ready player one-Ernest Cline


Gone girl-Gillian Flynn


The white princess-Philippa Gregory 


A thousand splendid suns-Khaled Hosseini