Project Hail Mail novel started and some random
thoughts
May 15, 2026
Yesterday I blogged about a 5 star book that I read, “A
Thousand Splendid Suns” and I also started to read “Project Hail Mary”. All 476 pages of it.
I’m not sure that I have the reading stamina for this
book, but I’m going to try. It is
highly recommended and rated. It has a 4.51 rating on Goodreads and 4.7 stars
on Amazon. Both are extremely high
ratings, so I might be missing something if I don’t read it, right?
It’s written in…shudder…FIRST PERSON! I usually don’t read books in first person,
but I picked it up yesterday and read 12 pages straight without it bothering
me, so I’m okay with that. However, the
length…OY! But, hey, I have nothing but time these days. I’m ONLY picking up the grandson 3 times a
week probably for another week while his father is on jury duty (he would be
picking him up the other two days).
So, here goes.
I seem to be wasting a lot of time these days on
Instagram listening to child prodigies either sing or play the violin or
piano. I can spend hours just listening
to them. For me, coming from a musical
family, it’s fascinating!
My garden is sadly neglected and I’m letting it go
for the summer. Last year I had to run
out and hand pollinate my squash and I just don’t have the energy to do that
this year and I mean, how many yellow squash can one family eat? I did enjoy the 3 beautiful, round pumpkins
which matured in mid-October. I planted
them May 5th and the squash shaded them and they survived a medium-hot
summer here. This summer we are being
warned about a very strong El Nino coming, which means more rain, humidity, and
tropical storms. So, I’m not planting a
summer crop AT ALL.
There’s a word in Spanish: la ganas…it means “the desire”. A deep desire. I just don’t have it this year AT ALL. I’ve done something to my left wrist or it
could be more arthritis, but I’m having trouble grasping items with it and it
hurts ALL THE TIME. If I move it a
certain way, it’s a 10/10 on the pain scale.
I iced it this morning and that really helped, so I’ll be doing that
again as needed.
I honestly need rest. I get up in the morning, early, feed the
birds out front, put food out for the visiting duck pair, check the hummingbird
feeders, all 7 of them, come inside, feed the dog, feed our nearly one year old
kitten, fix the coffee, then head out back to feed the birds and cats out
there. I always check on my wild
sunflowers and the hollyhocks that are growing there and water them as
necessary. And, I check the hummingbird
feeders out back, too. We seem to have
about 4-5 hummers who stay with us all year and the yard is divided into front
and back territories for them. While the coffee is percolating (we use a stove
top stainless steel 12 cup percolator), I usually come in and waste time on my
laptop.
When I finish “Project Hail Mary”, I’ll post my
thoughts on it. In the meantime, I’ll
be running errands and doing chores and picking up the grandson. By the way, I
put in $30 worth of gas in my car yesterday and only got ¼ tank of gas. I think
it was 4.65 gallons, so it would cost me over $100 to fill it up completely.
AND, it only takes premium unleaded, so no cheap gasoline! It IS a hybrid and
it gets about 30 mpg in the city, so that is a benefit, BUT STILL!
Any thoughts or comments? What are you reading? What’s a book you really enjoyed?
653 words
May 15, 2026
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