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Small-Scale Question Sunday for June 7, 2026

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So, what are you reading?

I've finished Said's The Question of Palestine, Thoughts below. Not much progress on Savrola. Giving McLuhan's The Classical Trivium another try; the third or so that I've read has stayed with me.

Finished Artemis by Andy Weir. It turned out roughly as I would have expected. It's a simple nice fun Sci-Fi story, would probably make a good movie if anyone cared to produce it.

I started reading Day Of Ascension by Adrian Tchaikovsky. I haven't generally been real into the Warhammer stuff, but trying it out to see if it scratches my itch for plots that don't go in the direction I would expect.

probably make a good movie if anyone cared to produce it

They're going to, allegedly, though seeing as how a new Weir adaptation (Project Hail Mary) made it out first, I wonder if this is ever going to happen for real.

The vast majority of books that get optioned don't get made into movies, but I'd bet "author with two books that made hit movies and a third that has two super-popular director/producers interested in it" has better odds than most.

IMHO Artemis was pretty disappointing. The Martian is one of my favorite books and my kids loved it too, and Project Hail Mary is one of my kids' favorites and I loved it too, but with Artemis I felt like it wasn't deep or creative enough to work as a mature novel but it also wasn't kid-friendly enough to turn into a family movie. I'm still mostly glad I read it and very glad he wrote it - you don't know how art will come out until you try - but I hope that the newly-and-properly-recognized demand for More Weir Movies has enough patience to wait and see what he comes out with next.

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