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...
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 Donna Rueff | Sep 30, 2022 | Books by the Beach
by Sue Halpern (2018) October 2022 As you stand amid the rubble that was once your perfect life, what you always wanted and worked hard for, you wonder: what just happened here? Do I cry? Scream? Drown my sorrows in wine or Haagen-Dazs, or both? Leave the country?...
