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Orbital by Samantha Harvey
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it was amazing

Love love love love love love. Oh, my love. Sitting here astonished.

The prose reminded me of Virginia Woolf. Don’t ask me why I felt that, I just did. This book is gorgeous, totally breathtaking. A spatial meditative and metaphysical odyssey. Using the backdrop of space and astronomy to explore down-to-earth human behaviors and experiences. Very unique to have your novel set in space yet mostly talk about what it’s like to be on Earth.

I was truly in awe of this thing. FULL REVIEW TO COME.

“Maybe human civilization is like a single life — we grow out of the royalty of childhood into supreme normality; we find out about our own unspecialness and in a flush of innocence we feel quite glad — if we're not special then we might not be alone.”
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Reading Progress

August 16, 2024 – Started Reading
August 16, 2024 – Shelved
August 16, 2024 – Finished Reading

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message 1: by Andi (new)

Andi I always trust your impeccable taste, you remain book goals!!!


Margaret Galbraith Me too. I’d never read anything like this!


message 3: by Olena (new)

Olena Love terrorists? She romanticized terrorist nation and you love it? well...


Annemarie Well that's very weird, because as I'm reading this book I am thinking of Virginia Woolf. Then I read your review. Great minds!


Sherry Myers I loved it too! It is a love letter to planet Earth and I enjoyed the perspective.


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