Fascinating dive into the author getting to know one of the mercury 13 women trained by NASA during the space race, and the curveball that sent her down the rabbit hole of a secret life of her new friend. Even if the postulation on the JFK assassination feels a little reaching, there is a lot of worthwhile detail in how the agency operated during the cold war, and lends credence to the idea that the lone gunman theory doesn't paint the complete picture.
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GB rated Braiding Sweetgrass: 5 stars
Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As …
GB rated Blood in the Machine: 5 stars
Blood in the Machine by Brian Merchant
The true story of what happened the first time machines came for human jobs, when an underground network of 19th …
GB rated Demon of Unrest: 5 stars
GB rated To Sleep in a Sea of Stars: 4 stars
To Sleep in a Sea of Stars by Christopher Paolini (Fractalverse, #1)
Kira Navárez dreamed of life on new worlds. Now she's awakened a nightmare. During a routine survey mission on an …
GB rated The Road to Jonestown: 4 stars
The Road to Jonestown by Jeff Guinn
In the 1950s, a young Indianapolis minister named Jim Jones preached a blend of the gospel and Marxism. His congregation …
GB reviewed Woman I Know by Mary Haverstick
The “fascinating” (The New York Times) true story of a filmmaker whose investigation of her …
Dual Identities, the CIA, and the women behind post-war espionage
4 stars
Fascinating dive into the author getting to know one of the mercury 13 women trained by NASA during the space race, and the curveball that sent her down the rabbit hole of a secret life of her new friend. Even if the postulation on the JFK assassination feels a little reaching, there is a lot of worthwhile detail in how the agency operated during the cold war, and lends credence to the idea that the lone gunman theory doesn't paint the complete picture.
GB rated Woman I Know: 4 stars
Woman I Know by Mary Haverstick
The “fascinating” (The New York Times) true story of a filmmaker whose investigation of her film’s subject opened a new …