Andrew Weir’s The Martian adapted well to a feature-length film and his follow-up Project Hail Mary is slated for a Ryan Goslingafied adaptation set to be released a year from now. Much like The Martian, a lone über-engineer/scientist (though this one is ostensibly also a high school science teacher) must survive against all odds alone in space, using only his knowledge, wits, and a series of conveniences to get him to the next plot point.

Is it worth highlighting when you find yourself highlighting more than 60% of a book? Probably.

Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents by Lindsay Gibson PsyD really hits on multiple key areas of how one’s upbringing, though appearing to have been “fine,” may have been an experience that informs many of the difficulties one may be experiencing in adulthood.

I did not expect Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower to be quite so prescient or timely as I picked up a hardcover copy from a bookstore shelf. But her story of a young Black woman surviving in a society that is slowly collapsing held more than a few parallels for today, if not tomorrow. Set in the northern part of a decaying Los Angeles, people huddle in walled communities, attempting to avoid the chaos of drug-induced arson and simple survival in the wider world.

Inspired by a post by Adam M., I’m returning to my long-neglected practice of reading. In an effort to keep to this, I’ll be adding a short summary of each book I read in 2025, along with a list of them in this post.

Have you seen the first John Wick movie? For a film that’s the co-directorial debut of a stunt coordinator/stuntman, it’s got what it needs: style, flash, and enough framing from which to hang a story. It’s fun, has relatable key points in the main character’s tragic losses, and mostly exists as an excuse to let Keanu Reeves hit people, to which I do not object.