by Graham Moore, 20167, Kindle Version, Random House LLC This is an interesting book as it depicts the war between George Westinghouse and Thomas Edison over the future distribution of electricity. We all know that Westinghouse’s system won in the … Continue reading →
by Julie Orringer, 2010, Kindle Edition, Random House LLC I read this book while on vacation overseas when I had some long airplane flights to read it. It is a long, long book (786 pages). I think it would have … Continue reading →
By Bryan Stephenson, 2014, Speigel and Grau This is the story of a young man who founded a non-profit organization in Atlanta to fight for overturning prison sentences for individuals who were unfairly convicted or sentenced in the South. The … Continue reading →
By John U. Bacon, audiobook narrated by Johnny Heller, 2017, Harper Collins Publisher This is a detailed account of the disaster that occurred in 1917 when a ship, loaded with ammunition to be sent to Europe, blew up in Halifax … Continue reading →
by David Riech, 2018, Vintage Books, A Division of Penguin Random House, New York This is a totally fascinating book about a subject I knew very little. This is not to say that I didn’t know anything about DNA; it’s … Continue reading →
by Michael Ondaatje, narrated by Steve West, 2018, Random House Audio This is a story about a young after World War II in England who does not know why his mother and father abandoned him during the War. He gradually … Continue reading →
by Fredrik Backman, 2016, Washington Square Press This book is supposedly about a small hockey town in Sweden, but it’s much more than that. It is about how groups and families interact with one another when something really bad happens. … Continue reading →
by Dani Shapiro, 2019, Knopf The subject of this book is the author’s discovery, via a DNA test, that the person she thought was her father was not, in fact, her biological father. Through research she finds her real biological … Continue reading →
by Peter May, 2016, Quercus, Reprint Edition This is the final novel in The Lewis Trilogy which is a series of mysteries that occur on the Isle of Lewis in the Hebrides. This book is perhaps not quite as good … Continue reading →
by Tana French, 2018, Audiobook narrated by Paul Nugent, 2018, Penguin Audio This is a novel about a young man in Ireland who gets involved in a murder of one of his school mates. The book starts out with a … Continue reading →