Station Eleven--#73 finished

 A book published in 2014 about a pandemic flu that probably kills off over 90% of the people in the world.  I think this was around the time when these dystopian novels were popular and this fits into that grouping.  I am guessing the whole Walking Dead series was started around here or at least the graphic novels were from probably an little earlier.  No zombies in this, only a few survivors and their struggles.  The book jumps back and forth between the time before and the current time so gets a little confusing and the characters only sort of cross over.  Still a very well written book, it does take some time to get into it but is worth it overall.

There are no copies in PBS right now but this was a very popular book with something like 90 some ratings--people that have read the book can rate it on PBS.  A lot of my books have zero to maybe 4 or 5 ratings.  At this point, I am going to see if any of my friend group would be interested, if not will probably post on PBS. 

Confidence Man--#72 finished

 This is a book by Maggie Haberman, New York Times reporter that has been following Donald Trump for years, before he got into politics.  The rest of the title is: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America.  Since I like politics and really don't like Trump, I have probably been following him too much since he was president and then the years after.  I remember watching a Donald Trump show on maybe Frontline that talked about how he was raised and then grew into his business self.  Not much of that in this book but more once he was sort of established in business in late '70s and into the '80s.  A lot of information and a lot of sourcing as you would expect from a reporter.  It still amazes me that so many people that have worked for him, especially in politics have come out & said he should never be president again but none of this gains traction with the Republican voters.  Just a crazy time we live in right now in politics.

There are like 37 WL for this book on PBS so I will probably post & send off at some point.

Okay Fine Whatever--#71 finished

 The rest of the title is: The Year I Went From Being Afraid of Everything to Only Being Afraid of Most Things.  The author details her year to try difficult to her new things.  In her forties and changing roles with her job and wanting to date sort of kicked this off.  She had also lost weight and also fighting anxiety attacks were playing into this as well.  Some of what she went through was funny but lots of sex and some relationship talk here.  In the end she seemed like she was in a good relationship & healthier living overall.  Author is from Portland and hosted an NPR show and later produced it and was in process of leaving show when this book happened.  Couldn't find much of an update since book but hope she is doing well.

There are 2 WL for this book so I will probably post soon & get mailed off.

Hank Greenberg - #70 finished

 I didn't realize the numbers that Hank Greenberg put up in the majors until I checked baseball-reference after reading this book.  Really impressive with homers and RBI.  This book was more focused on the person though than so much about the baseball and numbers.  Greenberg was raised Jewish but didn't practice as an adult.  He famously didn't play on Yom Kippur one of his first seasons though and became a Jewish hero.  From reading the book, it said Greenberg had started writing his autobiography--I am guessing family probably gave these notes to this author to write up the book long after.  This was part of a Jewish Lives series.  Interesting person and interesting times in our country.

There are 2 WL for this book in PBS so will get posted & sent off at some point.

The Hammer of Eden - #69 finished

 This is an older book--written in mid 1990s.  One of those where cell phones around but not much coverage and not used that much.  A group of hippies on a commune in CA are going to be get bumped off the land they have been leasing from government in order for a river to be dammed and a power plant put in.  The leader & a few cohorts try to fight this with terrorism and making earthquakes occur.  FBI lady is lead investigator on this and tries to solve things.  An okay book, story makes sense but details and happenings sometimes just don't make enough sense.  

This is a mass market paperback that I started because needed an outdoor book.  There are too many copies in PBS already so this will go in donate pile.

Rising Tiger--#68 finished

This is the newest Scot Harvath series book by Brad Thor.  This is the series that I have started from the beginning too--I think I have gotten to first 4 books.  I am not sure but maybe started around 10th book in series--maybe earlier.  I don't plan on re-reading any so will read new ones as they come and try to get those earlier ones I skipped done too.  This one he is in India, a new place and also new for the spy novels I read--India hasn't really been touched.  He was in India but it was China as the bad guy.  Of course the lady helping is model attractive but also a police sort of officer.  A good page turner that continues the story but not much memorable here.

I think there are 17 WL for this book in PBS so I will post & mail off at some point down the line. 

A Good Day for Seppuku--#67 finished

 This is the 1st book finished in August.  This is a short story book with some good stories and a few that just sort of dragged along.  Writing at times seemed needlessly wordy, that made it hard to really concentrate on getting through the paragragh/page.  Overall though good characters and good stories.

There is 1 WL for this on PBS and like book before this, I will get this posted soon but also not rushing it out the door since already have plenty of credits.

The Family Fang--#66 finished

 A sort of comedy about a screwed up family.  The parents are performance artists and when the daughter & then son are born they are incorporated into this life.  When the kids get older, the daughter moves away to become an actress and the son moves out to write books and then magazine articles.  Both suffer career setbacks and end up back at home at same time but then parents disappear.  Kids look for parents for a long time.  End with a surprise.  It was funny at times and just sort of sad, I guess that is probably what author intended.

There is 1 WL for this book so I will probably post soon but already have enough credits on PBS so not rushing it either.

Killer Pizza--#65 finished

This one was actually finished in July but just now getting around to logging in.  I thought it was more young adult but is probably even for younger than that.  Still sort of entertaining with kids on their first job at a pizza joint also become monster hunters.  Easy to read type of kids book.

There is one copy on PBS & I will go ahead and make this the 2nd copy.  Will see if it moves.  I had grabbed it as a 2nd book from a WL offer on PBS so that could happen too.