Can’t Wait Wednesday #138: Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Can’t Wait Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Wishful Endings, to spotlight and discuss the books we’re excited about that we have yet to read. Generally they’re books that have yet to be released. It’s based on Waiting on Wednesday, hosted by the Jill at Breaking the Spine. So let me introduce you my Can’t Wait Wednesday #138 pick.  Click on the book’s cover to add it to your Goodreads shelf (opens in a new window).

From The Publisher:

Joan Goodwin has been obsessed with the stars for as long as she can remember. Thoughtful and reserved, Joan is content with her life as a professor of physics and astronomy at Rice University and as aunt to her precocious niece, Frances. That is, until she comes across an advertisement seeking the first women scientists to join NASA’s Space Shuttle Program. Suddenly, Joan burns to be one of the few people to go to space.

Selected from a pool of thousands of applicants in the summer of 1980, Joan begins training at Houston’s Johnson Space Center, alongside an exceptional group of fellow candidates: Top Gun pilots Hank Redmond and John Griffin, who are kind and easy-going even when the stakes are highest; mission specialist Lydia Danes, who has worked too hard to play nice; warm-hearted Donna Fitzgerald, who is navigating her own secrets; and Vanessa Ford, the magnetic and mysterious aeronautical engineer, who can fix any engine and fly any plane.

As the new astronauts become unlikely friends and prepare for their first flights, Joan finds a passion and a love she never imagined. In this new light, Joan begins to question everything she thinks she knows about her place in the observable universe.

Then, in December of 1984, on mission STS-LR9, everything changes in an instant.

Fast-paced, thrilling, and emotional, Atmosphere is Taylor Jenkins Reid at her best: transporting readers to iconic times and places, with complex protagonists, telling a passionate and soaring story about the transformative power of love, this time among the stars.

Why I Can’t Wait To Read Atmosphere:

Taylor Jenkins Reid is one of my favourite authors. She writes emotional stories about intelligent, courageous women – something I just can’t get enough of. The synopsis for this book promises another engaging story and I can’t wait to read it.

Other Recent Picks for Can’t Wait Wednesday:

Can’t Wait Wednesday #137: Mansion Beach by Meg Mitchell Moore

Can’t Wait Wednesday #136: Beach House Rules by Kristy Woodson Harvey

Can’t Wait Wednesday #135: Dogged Pursuit by David Rosenfelt

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What is a book that you Can’t Wait to read? Let me know in the comments!

I hope you have a wonderful day!