Secret by Lee Childs and 2 bios, Musk and Kushner Catch up postings

 As year ends and time runs out I have books that I have read and not entered here, including one of my favorites, a Jack Reacher novel by "Childs.  Since  this blog is for just me, I often neglect.  My  reading has slowed as t his year I have been engaged in other online studies such as t he Catechism in a Year that divert my time.  So to get these three onto my bookshelf, here we go:

 Stated reading on my birthday Nov 13,  finished Nov    28.    Didn't read every night as I used to.  Of course another winner,  I always await new Reacher novels and am collecting the old ones now.   Sadly years back I cleared my shelf of paperbacks and the Reacher novels included. Then the Amazon series awakened renewed interest and as I began to rebuild my collection, they are harder to find now at book sales.  

   Pg 80-82 typical Reacher react ion by water boarding a jerk who threatens to kill him. "You think?" 

As before another 5 *****   

Excellent bio by Walter Isaacson, all 615 pages.  Very interesting character, not always on the side of angels but who is?  Musk makes the news and headlines consistently so it was a timely read.  More later if /when I have time.  I would like to have someone to discuss this book with but that doesn't seem to be possible.  .  5 *****

ON 1/1/2024 I saw this review in the Daily Signal and copy it here:    " What comes shining through in this book is that Elon Musk—this generation’s premier inventor, entrepreneur, sage, and futurist—is America’s 20th century Ben Franklin. That’s ironic and appropriate, in that Walter Isaacson, the top biographer of this era, has written tomes on both of these geniuses. Here we have yet another iconic spectacularly successful immigrant—from South Africa—who sees the world 50 years ahead of anyone else. He has spawned at least a dozen companies, including Space X and Tesla. The most stunning part of his story is that he had abusive parents, is bipolar, and is on the autism spectrum, but that seems to have inspired his brilliance and risk-taking. Every aspiring entrepreneur should read his story—beautifully and often humorously written—in this authorized biography.

—Steve Moore, distinguished fellow in economics"

Wow read this back in August 2022 but never posted here.  Interesting,  Lots of detail,  took 4 months to read   Now with the Israeli war and so many other issues caused by Biden debacle and the nitwits that went for him, I wonder what Kushner think   469 Pages.  Well done.  5 *****