The Pantanos

I was able to watch the movie a while ago and enjoyed it very much. So, I decided to read the book for this month's blog post. The Martian opens with the most iconic sentence I've seen: I'm pretty much fucked. The book's main character is Mark Watney, who is the resident botanist in NASA’s mission to Mars. While the crew was scheduled to spend a month on Mars, they were forced to leave the mission early due to a violent sandstorm causing damage to the transportation vehicle which the crew needed to return to their ship, Hermes. While evacuating, a stray antenna punctured Watney’s suit and cut into his side, causing him to pass out. Thinking he died, the rest of the crew returned to Earth. After regaining consciousness, Watney returned to the Mars base and began to make a survival plan until NASA would return to rescue him. Watney rations his meals and finds a way to grow food. As the botanist, he had some Earth soil with him. Mixing in his feces and the leftovers from h

       If you’ve heard the name Alice Oseman, then you probably know that she wrote the Heartstopper series. But did you know that she wrote other novels? Such novels include I Was Born for This , Radio Silence , Loveless , and the book I will be focusing on: Solitaire . She also wrote the novellas Nick and Charlie and This Winter , which follows the events of Solitaire.       I had received all of these books for Christmas and decided to read one of them. I chose Solitaire and I wasn’t disappointed. Solitaire has a great plot involving Tori the protagonist, Michael Holden who becomes Tori's friend, and Solitaire. Solitaire is a blog that started in her school and no one knows who it is that’s posting on it. It isn’t a normal blog either, each post comes with some form of chaos like music playing on the speakers or ratting someone out for doing something really bad. Tori believes that the blog is somehow connected to her as some posts seem really close to things she liked or eve