This is the story of Lisa Nowak, the astronaut who went off the rails and attacked her sometime boyfriend's new girlfriend at the Orlando Airport back in 2007. The author didn't get any exclusive interviews, so the sources are police and court records and whatever was in the papers. The book is filled out with a lot of detail on astronaut training and the details of space shuttle missions, which aren't always strictly relevant to the story but are interesting nonetheless.
Tuesday, December 7, 2021
Thursday, November 4, 2021
Monday, November 1, 2021
A Death in Eden by Keith McCafferty
Book 7 in the Sean Stranahan mystery series. Another good tale. McCafferty is consistently good. This book features Stranahan's friend Harold Littlefeather in a leading role, with Stranahan a relatively minor character. A good departure as Littlefeather is an interesting individual who it was well worth developing.
Sunday, October 31, 2021
Everything We Didn't Say by Nicole Baart
October Book of the Month Club Selection. Decent mystery/thriller.
Monday, May 10, 2021
The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave
Book of the Month Selection for May. This is a good story of a husband who disappears leaving his wife a cryptic note.
Dark Sky by C.J. Box
#21 in the Joe Pickett series. A solid story with Joe Pickett struggling to survive in the mountains while he and a Mark Zuckerberg type are chased by killers. By this point in the series the stories are getting a bit formulaic but they are still good reads.
Thursday, May 6, 2021
Heretics Yet Again
I did another periodic reread of G.K. Chesterton's Heretics. My original post on it is here.
The House on the Cliff by F.W. Dixon
Second in the Hardy Boys series, I've been reading out of nostalgia. Not a bad story. Action packed.
Tuesday, March 16, 2021
Long Range by C.J. Box
Catching up with my Joe Pickett reads. This was a pretty good entry (#20) in the Pickett series.
Saturday, February 6, 2021
Winter Counts by David Heska Wanbli Weiden
A Book of the Month Selection about a Lakota "enforcer" who ends up battling a drug gang in defense of his nephew. Pretty good.
Saturday, January 2, 2021
The Gifted School by Bruce Holsinger
Very good Book of the Month Club Selection. Sort of like Pretty Little Lies but this is about getting kids into a school for the gifted.
The Demon in Democracy by Ryszard Legutko
I haven't been keeping up with this blog... some late entries.
This book is a profound meditation on some of the similarities between communism and liberal democracy, by a Polish philosophers who has lived through both.
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