by T Wilson | Mar 6, 2023 | Senior Book Break
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...
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 | Jan 13, 2023 | Senior Book Break
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...
by Donna Rueff | Jan 13, 2023 | Books by the Beach
By Eva Jurczyk (2022) December 2022 “Who doesn’t love a mystery involving rare books and bad librarians?” says Karen Joy Fowler’s blurb for this book’s jacket. While most of us who read this blog are familiar with the lending library, there’s another type of library...
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...
