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KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON: THE OSAGE MURDERS AND THE BIRTH OF THE FBI 🤩

In the lead-up to Martin Scorcese’s next film, I really wanted to read the non-fiction book upon which it is based. I knew next to nothing about the Osage people or their history. Growing up in central upstate NY between Syracuse and Lake Ontario, we learned about the Native Americans who first inhabited the lands we lived on for thousands of years before British and French colonizers arrived. I consider my education in the 80s & 90s to be a…

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PROJECT HAIL MARY 🤩

It’s best to get into PROJECT HAIL MARY without knowing anything about it – even the inside cover flap. Andy Weir’s third book, following his massive debut of THE MARTIAN, is set in space, which is all I’ll divulge about the plot itself (and is as much as the cover tells you). I will say that Andy Weir’s strength in PROJECT HAIL MARY may also be his weakness. He dives deep into technical calculations, logical proofs, and explorations of the…

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