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 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 | Nov 7, 2022 | Senior Book Break
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...
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...
