Verdict : 4 *s. There is no concrete story. But the book captures the experiences of each astronaut vividly which I liked a lot. I found the writing to be really good and the words flowing like poetry.
It is scientifically and geographically accurate. The author has done her research on life in a space ship and zerogravity and howit impacts the body.
Favorite quotes:
without earth we are all finished. We couldnt survive a second without its grace. We are all sailors on a ship on a deep dark unswimmable sea - pg 9
you're a seabid on a warm day, just drifting. What use are biceps, calves , strong shin bones; what use is muscle mass ? ...everyday the size of them must fight this urge to dissipate - pg 11
They cling to their twenty four hour clock becuase its all the feeble little time bound body knows...But the mind goes free within the first week. - pg 13.
she feels in space as though her body is young again and there are no aches or pains .
they came to space to be encouraged. They came out of a drive for more, more of every thing, more knowledge and humility ,speed and stillness. Distance and closeness - pg 27
its beauty echoees-- its beauty is its echoing..its ringing , singing lightness.Its not perpetual and its not the centre;its no everytig and its not nothing; but it seems much more than something - pg 28
its easier to have nothing much to love than to keep losing something - pg 38
why would you do this? Trying to live where you can never thrive Trying to go where the universe doesnt want you when there is a perfect earth -
He is never sure is mans lust for space is curiousity or ingratitude.If this weird hot longing makes him a hero or an idiot - pg 49
A person is beautiful not becuase they're good .They're beautiful becuase they are alive, like a child - pg 51.
is it necessarily th ecause that the further you get from something, the more perspective you have on it? If you could get far enough even from the earth, you'd be able to finally understand it . - pg 52
progress is not a thing but a feeling. it is a feeling of adventure and expansion that starts in the belly and works up to the chest - pg 53
she misses her mother, she misses her toughness, her straightness , her distance - pg 59
wherever mankind goes, it leaves somekind of destruction behind it, perhaps the nature of all life ,to do this. - pg 69
isnt it strange how everything we do in our capacity as humans only asserts us more as the animals we are - pg 106.
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