List the books (if any) you've read this year for pleasure. Choose one and in a sentence describe its impact on you.
Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space By Carl Sagan
Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration Into the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation, and Time Travel by Michio Kaku
The World Without Us by Alan Weisman
The Travels of Marco Polo by Marco Polo and Rustichello da Pisa
The Martian by Andy Weir
In Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
The Game of Thrones: A Clash of Kings by George R.R. Martin
The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
The Inferno by Dan Brown
Carl Sagan, a personal hero, showed me a revolutionary perspective of mankind’s place on the cosmic stage in Pale Blue Dot, transforming the way I viewed time and history; it opens up the scale of the universe and humbles oneself upon realizing that all the great works of man, gods and religion, and everyone who ever was, existed and exist on a “mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.”