Orbital

I borrowed this book from the public library but within a few chapters, I knew I was going to reread it several times, so I purchased it. 

Reading Orbital was like reading a long poem about the vastness and smallness of Earth - in part through the eyes of four astronauts and two cosmonauts as they experience a sunrise every 90 minutes in their space station orbiting the planet.

This is not my usual kind of reading, it forced me to slow down and read every word, but the words weren’t a conduit for the plot, pushing me to speed-read to turn the page or tempting me to skip to the last page to satisfy my curiosity, the lyricism of the words cautioned me to take my time and sit in them because the words themselves were the reason for reading.

This doesn’t mean nothing happened - we learn about the lives of those on board, about their relationships with those left at home, and we watch helplessly as they watch helplessly as a dangerous typhoon grows and destroys everything in its path. 

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