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    T he Martian by Andy Weir is one of the few stories that I have both seen the movie version and read the book. I saw the movie before the book, and normally I am not someone that would strive to read a story that I had already seen, but I found The Martian to be such an interesting movie that I was excited to read the book. One of the reasons that I wanted to read the book is that I heard from other people that major technical details were left out of the movie that were included in the book. I was excited to read the book after hearing how it was so good and after reading it I wasn’t disappointed.      The movie directed by Ridley Scott is potentially one of my favorite movies ever. Firstly the movie started out at an extremely fast pace where the main character Mark Watney was scrambling to figure out what to do with his fellow astronauts when an extreme dust storm was hitting their complex on the surface of mars. The movie made every detail pop and...

     What do you need to succeed in life? This is a popular question – I mean who doesn’t want to succeed in life – with a variety of answers: Hard work, communication skills, a positive attitude, and much more. However, what if you were told that there were two things that were more important which could lead you to success: Opportunity and cultural legacies. Although this sounds way too simple, Outliers: The Story of Success written by Malcolm Gladwell, shows how this is true by looking at the case for some of the most successful people, including Bill Gates, the Beatles, and Mozart. This book also looks at data sets and experiments conducted to make these points stronger.    The first section of the book focuses on opportunities; how successful people in the past and present had opportunities that they did not create themselves, which had greatly benefited them. Each chapter in the section looks at something different that allows these people to gain oppor...

      Neal Shusterman is an author I am quite fond of. I've read his book series Scyth, however after finishing the books, I only recently went to read another piece of writing by him. The book Dry was written by Neal and his son Jarod (never before heard of a father-son duo teaming up on a book), and it was placed in modern-day California. The book starts off by following the day-to-day life of Alyssa, your average teenager living in your average Subarbun town, however, one day the water in her kitchen sink stops...   In the days leading up to this water stoppage, news is spreading about a water reservoir in Nevada running out of water. At first Alyssa, just like many others, doesn't think too much of this, and she blames the stoppage of water on reason renovations her Dad has had on the house, however, news spreads that California would be running out of access to water, and this wasn't some simple renovation mishap.  Immediately, Alyssa just like ma...

       Before reading The Marlow Murder Club  by Robert Thorogood, I hadn't imagined myself reading a detective story, let alone about an elderly lady. The premise of the book is about a woman named Judith Potts, in her 70s who takes a murder investigation into her own hands. The murder case is about Judith's neighbor, who is shot to death while Judith is swimming outside of her mansion. Judith began the Marlow Murder Club soon after to try to do what the police couldn't.  When I was reflecting on this book, it didn't make much sense to me. Judith, a rich retired woman in her 70s, is apparently able to solve a murder case because she does crossword puzzles every day. It's kind of heavily implied throughout the entire book that just because she does crosswords every day it somehow makes her capable of solving a murder case. The two other women who made up the Marlow Murder Club, Becks and Suzie were characters who realized their potential through the c...