January 2020 Reads and Buddy's Birthday

Our dog Buddy (Boo) celebrated his 10th birthday this month so he is my January pic. To the right is a pic when he was a pup.





January Reads

I started off January with an ARC I received from John Schroeter titled After Shock: The World’s Foremost Futurists Reflect on 50 Years of Future Shock―and Look Ahead to the Next 50, John August Media, LLC. I thoroughly enjoyed this collection of essays.




In the mail, I received an amazing biography titled Bombshell by Ludwig Leidig. Bombshell is an unknown true story unearthed from World War II documents. It's a historical biography and covers the Third Reich in Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945.






Losing Normal by Francis Moss is a Winner of the 2019 Society of Children's Book Writers & Illustrators SPARK award  and the Readers' Favorite Silver medal winner. If you're not familiar with the author,  Moss has written and story-edited hundreds of hours of scripts on many of the top animated shows of the 90s and 00s.




I read The Reluctant Courtship of Jack Allan  by Dayle King Searle. A romance story is a switch for me, but I found this to be an engaging and somewhat humorous read which drew me in on the first page. While the story touches on the sad fact that Jack's a widower, it steers in the direction of a brighter future and the lifestyle of the small farming community I found fascinating. The events that occurred were amusing and the characters well described. Each was memorable and seemed authentic.


What's Ahead 
I received a book from Jane Wesman Public Relations, Inc. titled WOLF and plan to start it soon. It's written by Herbert J. Stern and Alan  A. Winter.




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