Tag: An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth

• 13 In ’13: A Pop Culture Omnilist

  Standard operating procedure for making year-end culture lists says to rank your ten favorite films/albums/books, but I’ve recently soured against this convention. Choosing a pre-determined number of “the best” among many great works, as all award shows do, is great entertainment but entirely arbitrary. So this time around, I decided to institute my own arbitrary…

  January 14, 2014

  Books, Film, Music

  12 Years A Slave, An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth, Before Midnight, Chris Hadfield, Francis Spufford, Gravity, Haim, Her, House of Cards, Like Someone in Love, Lucius, Neil Gaiman, review, Rod Dreher, Short Term 12, The Ocean at the End of the Lane, This Is Martin Bonner

• An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth

  Chris Hadfield couldn’t just be a fighter pilot, engineer, astronaut, photographer, musician, or the first Canadian commander of the International Space Station; he just had to be a damn good writer too. At one point in his superb memoir An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth, Hadfield describes what it’s like to exit the ISS into…

  December 3, 2013

  Books, Science

  An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth, Chris Hadfield, Mary Roach, outer space, review