Week 17: The Martian

This week's book:
The The Martin
By Andy Weir

My amazing husband has been reading The Martian to me for a while as a fun way to connect before bed. It should come to no surprise that I have always loved to be read to. I was spoiled by my parents and grandparents and really anyone I could convince to read to me when I was a child. So my sweet Hubby decided that instead of watching mindless TV before bed every night, we would read some. Now, let's be honest, we still watch TV as a couple, Stranger Things and Game of Thrones isn't just going to watch itself! But I digress...

I read The Martian a couple years ago while I was pregnant with our little girl. I had a stretch of reading some of my favorite books ever and this was one of those books. While I was reading this during my horrible morning sickness, I kept telling my main squeeze that he would like this book. I would stop him from what he was doing so I could read him certain passages. I just loved the book.

I read the book before I saw the movie and I loved the movie just as much. It's one of the truest adaptations I have ever seen. They got the film just right. Matt Damon did an awesome job playing the main character who is stranded on Mars for a long time. The character has to have such a range of emotions and he just nailed it.

One thing I had kind of forgotten was that I had skipped over some of the technical parts when I had originally read it. The film also kind of skips some of the techy stuff too. Being married to a tech nerd myself, he read everything and I may or may not have zoned out a little.

If you haven't already read this book, I can't recommend it enough. I rarely ever reread books, but when my sweet asked if I wanted to read it again, I had no problem diving right back into the story.