Project Hail Mary
Cut along the dashed lines and pass the cards around the table.
Where did you do most of your reading, and did you find yourself sneaking in just one more chapter under a blanket?
What was the first scene that made you smile or laugh out loud? Share the moment that warmed you up to the book.
The book is full of small comforts (a familiar voice, a shared meal, a problem you can actually solve). Which little comfort in the story felt the most like home to you?
Curiosity is treated almost like an act of love in this book. When was a time in your own life that being curious about someone or something brought you closer to them?
How did the story's tone (warm, funny, hopeful even when scary) shape the way it felt to read? Did it comfort you during a stressful week, or change your mood in some way?
Food, language, and tiny rituals do a lot of emotional heavy lifting here. What gesture or moment of kindness in the book stuck with you after you closed the cover?
Without giving anything away, was there a moment that made you tear up or hold the book a little tighter? What about it touched you?
This is a story about showing up for someone you never expected to meet. Who in your own life is an unlikely person you are grateful you got to know?