🌏rbital - a book for all you satellite romantics out there

It's all about perspective, people! Why Las Meninas? Read Orbital!

It won The Booker Prize and has been written about endlessly, so you don't need my thoughts on it. It's great, go read it, etc., etc.

The literature professor that led the book club I read this for said she would recommend reading one chapter a night and I agree. They are each 3-5 pages and dense. Approach it like you would a book of poetry. Best read not in a rush.

The book doesn't really have to do with food or finance. But it DOES have to do with looking at the earth from above. You don't have to be an astronaut to have this experience. I felt a bit of a connection to this book because I spend an inordinate amount of time looking at satellite imagery. Specifically of not particularly pretty places. But also, the Earth is very pretty. And Harvey captures that really well - and the paradoxes and contradictions that such a perspective raises.

Look at these pictures. Also, you can watch a livestream of the International Space Station taking its orbits around the Earth!