Senior Book Break – February 2023

Subject:  Love A Seahorse in the Thames by Susan Meissner The latest book by this author is about various types of love. A girl is in a serious accident that leaves her mentally challenged. Seventeen years later she vanishes. Her doctor falls in love with her and...

Senior Book Break — January 2023

Subject: A Spot on the Globe Our reader could not find a book with the subject of the Azores, so he finished this book. Galileo’s Daughter by Dava Sobel Based on actual surviving letters of Galileo’s daughter Maria Celeste, this is a carefully crafted book about a...

Senior Book Break – December 13, 2022

Subject: A Present, a surprise book you liked Robots and Empire by Isaac Asimov Our reader enjoys older science fiction more than the modern. The older writers seem to keep him reading. Galileo’s Daughter by Dava Sobel Based on actual surviving letters of Galileo with...

Senior Book Break November 8, 2022

Subject: The Future Chasing New Horizons by Alan Stern and David Grinspoon Subtitled “Inside the epic first mission to Pluto.” The author was on Voyager I and II.  New Horizons got a contract with NASA to make a flight that had to go at 400,000 MPH to arrive and get...

Senior Book Break October 11, 2022

Subject: A book that made you laugh “The Tuesday Murder Club” by Richard Osmon This is the first book in a series of four, so far.  It takes place in a retirement community in England. There are four participants of very varied personalities and occupations before...

Senior Book Break September 2022

Subject: Historical Fiction The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows The Germans occupied the Isle of Guernsey early in WW2. They confiscated anything and everything, including food. A curfew was in place and the...