Interesting Facts about Space: A Novel
A fast-paced, hilarious, and ultimately hopeful novel for anyone who has ever worried they might be a terrible person--from the bestselling author of Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead. Enid is obsessed with space. She can tell you all about black holes and their ability to spaghettify you without batting an eye in fear. Her one major phobia? Bald men. But she tries to keep that one under wraps. When she's not listening to her favorite true crime podcasts on a loop, she's serially dating a rotation of women from dating apps. At the same time, she's trying to forge a new relationship with her estranged half-sisters after the death of her absent father. When she unwittingly plunges into her first serious romantic entanglement, Enid starts to believe that someone is following her. As her paranoia spirals out of control, Enid must contend with her mounting suspicion that something is seriously wrong with her. Because at the end of the day there's only one person she can't outrun--herself. Brimming with quirky humor, charm, and heart, Interesting Facts about Space effortlessly shows us the power of revealing our secret shames, the most beautifully human parts of us all.
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Did not finish book. Stopped at 5%.
Nope. This is one of those contemporary books where you're just following the train of thought of some 20-30 year old woman and whatever quirks the author has decided to give her. Unfortunately, I don't like being in this character's head and that's going to keep me from enjoying whatever plot this book may have had.
Content Warnings:
Graphic: Ableism
Moderate: Infidelity and Alcohol
Minor: Chronic illness
Nope. This is one of those contemporary books where you're just following the train of thought of some 20-30 year old woman and whatever quirks the author has decided to give her. Unfortunately, I don't like being in this character's head and that's going to keep me from enjoying whatever plot this book may have had.
Content Warnings:
Graphic: Ableism
Moderate: Infidelity and Alcohol
Minor: Chronic illness
Sometimes you have to joke about things like pickling murdered teenagers. It's a coping mechanism. It takes the darkness out at the knees.
Enid finds strange comfort in true crime podcasts, has an irrational fear of bald men and is a considerable commitment-phobe; only casual dating app action for her. In awkward moments, her extensive knowledge of all things SPACE fills the silences she dreads. Life finds her navigating a new relationship with half-sisters she hardly knows, an unexpected romantic entanglement... And a stalker?
This book made me chuckle more than once. Also the growth that Enid experienced by the end was actually a surprise to me.
Entertaining and somewhat eye-opening in terms of neurodivergence, mental health and social anxiety.
What started as entertaining, self-deprecating humour took a serious turn, and the middle section of this book was tough to get through; I wouldn’t call it “hilarious” by any stretch. However as a previous reviewer stated, this book and all its characters did have a way of making me feel seen as well.
I didn’t think I would devour this book like I did, and then I ended up reading in six hours. I couldn’t put it down. Something about Enid’s story and the way she told it kept me on the edge of my seat until literally the last page. I don’t know how to describe how seen this book made me feel.
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