by T Wilson | Feb 9, 2023 | Senior Book Break
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...
by T Wilson | Dec 7, 2022 | Senior Book Break
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...
by T Wilson | Oct 4, 2022 | Senior Book Break
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...
by T Wilson | Sep 3, 2022 | Senior Book Break
Subject: Subject: Books loaned or given to you by friends The Last Thing He Told Me: by Laura Dave This book was received from our reader’s daughter. A husband disappears, but leaves a note for his wife to take care of her stepdaughter. The teenager does not like her...
by T Wilson | Aug 11, 2022 | Senior Book Break
Subject: Artificial Intelligence and Robots Life: 3.0 Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence by Max Tegmark Our Reader found this book a little hard to read and did not finish it. The Hammer of God by Arthur C. Clarke After the discovery of an asteroid...
