Packing for Mars by Mary Roach

I read this earlier this year but forgot to log it.  Don’t remember when.

I remember it was a good read for the most part.  It’s a book of essays on different aspects of how we’re planning to live on Mars, and what it will take to get there.

I skipped the biology chapters, because… gross.

Otherwise, engaging reading.

Yes, Please by Amy Poehler

Who doesn’t love Amy Poehler?

Seriously, who?  I will cut you.

She’s funny, she does one of the best female characters on television, she’s the brainchild behind the Smart Girls at the Party website (http://amysmartgirls.com/).

Her book is a fine read.  She’s witty, and learning of her evolution to where she is now is a reasonably interesting story.  She has a good outlook on life, and its infectious.

Perhaps there wasn’t quite enough story to tell just yet, at her young age.  Or perhaps she could have fleshed it out a bit more.  Her years at SNL are told in little one or two sentence snippets; Perhaps if she’d told them as full stories with more detail, we could have gotten a more vivid impression of what it was like to be her in that famous writer’s room.

Regardless, I enjoyed the book.  After all… she’s Amy Freaking Poehler.