Emily R. Austin

Author of Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead

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Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead (2021) 672 copies

Interesting Facts about Space (2024) 185 copies

Oh Honey (2017) 25 copies

Gay Girl Prayers (2024) 7 copies

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Birthdate: 1989-11-10
Gender: female
Nationality: Canada

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Interesting Facts about Space: A Novel by Emily Austin

There's a lot for a millennial to love here. Childhood trauma and mental illness and messy relationships. The fear of being a bad person deep down ruins pretty much everything in the main character's life, and then there's the horrible phenomenon that is bald men.
I wish the space facts had been more interesting. And more of them.

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KallieGrace | 8 other reviews | May 8, 2024 |

Interesting Facts about Space: A Novel by Emily Austin

This was an impulse choice at the library that I initially categorized as "fluff" but as I continued, I appreciated the very real issues it presented and the way that they resolved. It's quite a different book, but one that I now will recommend for a change of pace read..

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ReluctantTechie | 8 other reviews | May 2, 2024 |

Interesting Facts about Space by Emily Austin

3.5 Stars

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moonlit.shelves | 8 other reviews | Apr 9, 2024 |

Interesting Facts about Space: A Novel by Emily Austin

Enid knows that she is not like most people — she listens to true crime podcasts and regurgitates odd facts about outer space to soothe herself — but lately things are spiraling out of control; she’s serial dating, messing up at work, and her phobia of bald men has reached epic proportions. In Interesting Facts About Space by Emily Austin, readers have a front row seat to Enid’s mania, but Austin manages to make all the insanity funny and touching. Austin knows how to craft real characters struggling with life, and readers looking for a quirky story about a young woman working through her anxieties and finding herself again will enjoy getting to know Enid.… (more)

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Hccpsk | 8 other reviews | Mar 31, 2024 |

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