#JAZZ BASHARA

[chronicowboy]

i love that andy weir never kills his protagonists. it would be so easy to. at so many points. by all means they Should be dead. mark gets stranded on mars and the planet works against him at every turn. jazz's suit fails on the surface of the moon and she feels herself begin to die. ryland is sent on a suicide mission then gives up his chance at return for his friend. they should all have died. multiple times in some cases. but they don't!!! because weir isn't writing tragedies, he's writing stories of hope and humanity. they survive even when it should be impossible for them to because of connection. simple as that.

[continentalblue]

disgusting how few artemis fans there are. put some goddamn respect on my girl jazz's name !!

[knittingwithhighlighters]

Good for you, Jazz. We stan a queen 👑

[niamhuncensored]

Thinking about how the Andy Weir Space Trilogy all end in basically the same place they started. The problematic status quo is now the soft landing.

Watney is isolated and relying on the help of others to survive. At the end of the book, he is isolated at home and relying on the help of delivery people to get groceries and maintain his health.

Jazz Bashara is broke and in debt to her father. Thee crimes, a heroic rescue, a self sacrifice, and a million credits later, and she's broke from fines and in debt to her friend.

Ryland Grace is an asocial teacher with exactly 1 friend. Two saved worlds later, and he's a teacher on a new planet with exactly 1 friend.

And that's ok. You don't need to move up or down to change.

Just thinking about it a lot

Edit: this blog loves and supports trans people! Always and forever!

[ofliterarynature]

TBR TAKEDOWN: Week 13 (Aug 25)

TLDR: I have too many unread books, and I’m asking tumblr to help me downsize. Pick one or none, and comment if you can - a convincing sentence is worth a dozen votes! You’re also welcome to just choose the one that sounds the worst :D Book descriptions below the cut, see my pinned post for more info.

Artemis by Andy Weir

[For reference, I *did* like The Martian but did *not* like Project Hail Mary]

Jasmine Bashara never signed up to be a hero. She just wanted to get rich.

Not crazy, eccentric-billionaire rich, like many of the visitors to her hometown of Artemis, humanity's first and only lunar colony. Just rich enough to move out of her coffin-sized apartment and eat something better than flavored algae. Rich enough to pay off a debt she's owed for a long time.

So when a chance at a huge score finally comes her way, Jazz can't say no. Sure, it requires her to graduate from small-time smuggler to full-on criminal mastermind. And it calls for a particular combination of cunning, technical skills, and large explosions--not to mention sheer brazen swagger. But Jazz has never run into a challenge her intellect can't handle, and she figures she's got the 'swagger' part down.

The trouble is, engineering the perfect crime is just the start of Jazz's problems. Because her little heist is about to land her in the middle of a conspiracy for control of Artemis itself.

Trapped between competing forces, pursued by a killer and the law alike, even Jazz has to admit she's in way over her head. She'll have to hatch a truly spectacular scheme to have a chance at staying alive and saving her city.

Jazz is no hero, but she is a very good criminal.

That'll have to do.

The Probability of Miracles by Wendy Wunder

Dry, sarcastic, sixteen-year-old Cam Cooper has spent the last seven years in and out hospitals. The last thing she wants to do in the short life she has left is move 1,500 miles away to Promise, Maine - a place known for the miraculous events that occur there. But it's undeniable that strange things happen in Promise: everlasting sunsets; purple dandelions; flamingoes in the frigid Atlantic; an elusive boy named Asher; and finally, a mysterious envelope containing a list of things for Cam to do before she dies. As Cam checks each item off the list, she finally learns to believe - in love, in herself, and even in miracles.

A debut novel from an immensely talented new writer, The Probability of Miracles crackles with wit, romance and humor and will leave readers laughing and crying with each turn of the page.

Merchants of Culture by John B Thompson

For nearly five centuries, the world of book publishing remained largely static. But at the dawn of the twenty-first century, the industry faces a combination of economic pressures and technological change that is forcing publishers to alter their practices and think hard about the future of the book.

John Thompson's riveting account dissects the roles of publishers, agents, and booksellers in the United States and Britain, charting their transformation since the 1960s. Offering an in-depth analysis of how the digital revolution is changing the game today, Merchants of Culture is the one book that anyone with a stake in the industry needs to read.

[krv-reads]

Artemis

By Andy Weir

3 stars

Finished March 22

The premise of this book fascinated me, and the story itself lived up to the anticipation. Unfortunately, the characters made it less enjoyable for me.

I disliked the narrator, perhaps partially due to the stream of consciousness narrative style but more likely due to the fact that she was simply annoying. As for the supporting characters, they all felt like stock characters. Everyone fit a mold and never strayed from expectations.

No matter how interesting the plot may be, it is hard to love a book when the characters are unlikeable. Still though, the world captured me. Weir’s strong suit seems to be in creating new potential in worlds which already exist. I think this fantastical realism is the most powerful aspect of his writing.

[vreugd-madelon]

Artemis Review

Artemis by Andy Weir is a 305 page Adult Science Fiction Stand-Alone novel.

Jazz Bashara is a criminal. Well, sort of. Life on Artemis, the first and only city on the moon, is tough if you're not a rich tourist or an eccentric billionaire. So smuggling in the occasional harmless bit of contraband barely counts, right? Not when you've got debts to pay and your job as a porter barely covers the rent. Everything changes when Jazz sees the chance to commit the perfect crime, with a reward too lucrative to turn down. But pulling off the impossible is just the start of her problems, as she learns that she's stepped square into a conspiracy for control of Artemis itself—and that now, her only chance at survival lies in a gambit even riskier than the first.

I rate this book 4.5/5 stars.

I flew through this book, it was fast paced with good well developed characters, who grow throughout the story. I like the plot as well, and in some ways it’s really out there and feels unrealistic, but at other times it seems very much the same as other stories when comparing two elements, which I really like. The humour of Andy Weir’s characters is something I really like, as they make bleak situation a little more bearable, but in this it felt a little forced and cringe at times. The kiss in the last chapter is total BS and has no right to be there since there is no foreshadowing for it in the entire book. I’ve read 3 Andy Weir books and every climax seems to be the same; Either the MC sacrifices themselves for the betterment of the group, or all will be well for everyone. However there is no point in the book where you can tell which ending it’s going to be.

If I get the opportunity I will pick up a physical copy of this book.

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[xlsoii]

Well, I'm upset...you know me, I'm a fan of Andy Weir books. The first book I read was Project Heil Mary. I fell in love with that book. Then, I quickly bought The Martian and read it as well, and as it should happen, I searched for the book "Artemis" to buy and read it, after that I finished the martian book, I was very excited, and I read those lines with enthusiasm until I was shocked that the heroine,Jazz Bashara, is Saudi…Just like me.

that was the last thing I expected. Then the second shock was that her father was Muslim... like me too.

Well, there is no problem here, but the problem lies after I delved deeper into the book, what did Weir think about when he opened the topic of religions? Do you remember when Jazz visited her father and asked him about his strange invention, whatever its name, that was able to determined the location of the qibla so that he could pray. Why did you have to add cheap, failed comedy lines like:

“Do you think you can impress Muhammad in this way?”

truly ? Was he forced to add that nonsense?

Or was he forced to write "Uff!" When she realized that her father had fixed two hooks on the wall to hang prayer rugs?

What would happen if your father did that? I am not exaggerating.

I do not want my religion to be affected in this way.

This made me disgusted. No matter how her father responded to her, even if he spoke to her in a rude manner, Jazz remains the main character of the book, and all readers subconsciously lean towards the main character, no matter how evil or good she is.

I was shocked by the amount of rumors Andy was talking about Saudi Arabia as well. It made me close the book that night and go to sleep feeling disgusted.

Also, the book talks all the time about sex, dating and fornication,Cmon…not a single page is devoid of this disgusting topic... Don't you think that mentioning this topic once or twice is enough?

Every time Jaz and Kelvin, who were young boys no more than ten years old, talked to each other through messages, it had to include sex and dating, yuck.

I lost my passion for that book and threw it on my desk, not thinking I would ever open it again.

I also lost my love for Andy and his books. His constant talk about Saudi Arabia and the religion of Islam is annoying. Why doesn’t he respect these topics? Is it because he was an almost uncommon writer that he thought that no Arab would read that bad book? I am very surprised

I did not finish the book and I will never finish it as long as the writer thinks in this disgusting way.

[keiraleth]

Books Read in 2022 (Part III/V)

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Here are all the books I’ve read in 2022.

RATING: 5/5 = All-Time Favorite | 4/5 = Loved It | 3/5 = Liked It | 2/5 = It’s Complicated | 1/5 = Not For Me

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Artemis by Andy Weir

Read in German | Rating: 3/5

“Very few people get a chance to quantify how much their father loves them. But I did. The job should have taken forty-five minutes, but Dad spent three and a half hours on it. My father loves me 366 percent more than he loves anything else.”

Summary: Jazz Bashara is a criminal. Well, sort of. Life on Artemis, the first and only city on the moon, is tough if you're not a rich tourist or an eccentric billionaire. So smuggling in the occasional harmless bit of contraband barely counts, right? Not when you've got debts to pay and your job as a porter barely covers the rent. Everything changes when Jazz sees the chance to commit the perfect crime, with a reward too lucrative to turn down. But pulling off the impossible is just the start of her problems, as she learns that she's stepped square into a conspiracy for control of Artemis itself—and that now, her only chance at survival lies in a gambit even riskier than the first.

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Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid

Read in English | Rating: 4/5

“Good bosses shouldn't make you happy in a job that they wouldn't want to do themselves," she said. "It's my job to make you so miserable that you're forced into finding something that brings you joy, and then I help you seal the deal.”

Summary: Alix Chamberlain is a woman who gets what she wants and has made a living, with her confidence-driven brand, showing other women how to do the same. So she is shocked when her babysitter, Emira Tucker, is confronted while watching the Chamberlains' toddler one night, walking the aisles of their local high-end supermarket. The store's security guard, seeing a young black woman out late with a white child, accuses Emira of kidnapping two-year-old Briar. A small crowd gathers, a bystander films everything, and Emira is furious and humiliated. Alix resolves to make things right. But Emira herself is aimless, broke, and wary of Alix's desire to help. At twenty-five, she is about to lose her health insurance and has no idea what to do with her life. When the video of Emira unearths someone from Alix's past, both women find themselves on a crash course that will upend everything they think they know about themselves, and each other.

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Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

Read in German | Rating: 4/5

“I'm just curious, how'd you get into this line of work?" "Gradually, and then suddenly.”

Summary: Set in the days of civilization's collapse, Station Eleven tells the story of a Hollywood star, his would-be savior, and a nomadic group of actors roaming the scattered outposts of the Great Lakes region, risking everything for art and humanity. One snowy night a famous Hollywood actor slumps over and dies onstage during a production of King Lear. Hours later, the world as we know it begins to dissolve. Moving back and forth in time—from the actor's early days as a film star to fifteen years in the future, when a theater troupe known as the Traveling Symphony roams the wasteland of what remains—this suspenseful, elegiac, spellbinding novel charts the strange twists of fate that connect five people: the actor, the man who tried to save him, the actor's first wife, his oldest friend, and a young actress with the Traveling Symphony, caught in the crosshairs of a dangerous self-proclaimed prophet.

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The Titan’s Curse by Rick Riordan

Read in German | Rating: 4/5

“In a way, it's nice to know that there are Greek gods out there, because you have somebody to blame when things go wrong. For instance, when you're walking away from a bus that's just been attacked by monster hags and blown up by lightning, and it's raining on top of everything else, most people might think that's just really bad luck; when you're a half-blood, you understand that some devine force is really trying to mess up your day.”

Summary: It's not everyday you find yourself in combat with a half-lion, half-human. But when you're the son of a Greek god, it happens. And now my friend Annabeth is missing, a goddess is in chains and only five half-blood heroes can join the quest to defeat the doomsday monster. Oh, and guess what? The Oracle has predicted that not all of us will survive...

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The Witch’s Heart by Genevieve Gornichec

Read in English | Rating: 5/5

“I just figured you might want to make an exception for these particular feelings, bothersome though they may be, because they're about you." Angrboda stared at him, he stared back at her and, for once, he seemed to be absolutely serious. "What? I care for you as well," he said, "as much as I hate to admit it. Caring about things makes life for complicated doesn't it. Best not to care about anything at all in my opinion. And then you came along. I find it quite bothersome indeed.”

Summary: Angrboda's story begins where most witches' tales end: with a burning. A punishment from Odin for refusing to provide him with knowledge of the future, the fire leaves Angrboda injured and powerless, and she flees into the farthest reaches of a remote forest. There she is found by a man who reveals himself to be Loki, and her initial distrust of him transforms into a deep and abiding love. Their union produces three unusual children, each with a secret destiny, who Angrboda is keen to raise at the edge of the world, safely hidden from Odin's all-seeing eye. But as Angrboda slowly recovers her prophetic powers, she learns that her blissful life—and possibly all of existence—is in danger.

[kkpxcoy]

Artemis - Andy Weir

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The best-selling author of The Martian returns with an irresistible new near-future thriller - a heist story set on the moon. Jazz Bashara is a criminal. Well, sort of. Life on Artemis, the first and only city on the moon, is tough if you're not a rich tourist or an eccentric billionaire. So smuggling in the occasional harmless bit of contraband barely counts, right? Not when you've got debts to pay and your job as a porter barely covers the rent. Everything changes when Jazz sees the chance to commit the perfect crime, with a reward too lucrative to turn down. But pulling off the impossible is just the start of her problems, as she learns that she's stepped square into a conspiracy for control of Artemis itself - and that now her only chance at survival lies in a gambit even riskier than the first. Bringing to life Weir's brash, whip-smart protagonist is actress Rosario Dawson (Marvel's The Defenders, Sin City, Death Proof). With the breathless immediacy of one realizing they're one

[angeldecuir]

Artemis BOOK ∙ 2017 Andy Weir

Andy Weir isn’t optimistic about humans inhabiting the moon. The author of the runaway bestseller The Martian imagines the the first lunar city, Artemis, as an expensive capitalist outpost where money talks and corporations talk loudest.

Like his debut’s hero, astronaut Mark Watney, Weir’s protagonist Jazz Bashara—a down-on-her-heels porter—is scrappy, flawed, and likable. Her hopes for a better life seem like an impossible dream until she receives a proposition from an eccentric, wealthy Norwegian. We loved following Jazz’s scheme as it nearly spirals out of control.

Artemis is full of thrilling twists and intricate dystopian visions.

[puppyvenom]

love is stored in the

‘Very few people get a chance to quantify how much their father loves them. But I did. The job should have taken forty-five minutes, but Dad spent three and a half hours on it. My father loves me 366 percent more than he loves anything else.

Good to know.’

[stemmefemme]

Jasmine Bashara is a girlboss. That's it. That's the tweet

[kahnwaldjonas]

“- she doesn’t care why your suit fails. she just kills you when it does.”

Artemis by Andy Weir

[frances-m-art]

Day 976

[windbyfire]

interesting how andy weir tried to give artemis a lot of diversity and went with "sanchez" and "alvarez" for brazilian names