Unbookers Jim, Sue, Robyn, Melissa and Doug met 6/3/16 at Doug's to discuss Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars, by Nathalia Holt.   With plenty of fuel, like Double D IPA, provided by Jim, wine by Robyn and eats by the rest, we launched into a wide ranging discussion about children, careers, ambition and family, and family and singing when one is young and shy.  Unbooker Gretchen was cruising the rivers of Europe with her husband.

Next read is the 2016 Pulitzer prize winning novel The Sympathizer, by Viet Thanh Nguyen.  From Amazon: The Sympathizer is a blistering exploration of identity, politics, and America, wrought in electric prose. The narrator, a Vietnamese army captain, is a man of divided loyalties, a half-French, half-Vietnamese communist sleeper agent in America after the end of the Vietnam War. A powerful story of love and friendship, and a gripping espionage novel, The Sympathizer examines the legacy of the Vietnam War in literature, film, and the wars we fight today.

We are the Unbookers: we don't read the books, we recommend them.  Unbook your time with us.

Space Oddity

By David Bowie

Ground Control to Major Tom
Ground Control to Major Tom
Take your protein pills and put your helmet on
Ground Control to Major Tom (ten, nine, eight, seven, six)
Commencing countdown, engines on (five, four, three)
Check ignition and may God's love be with you (two, one, liftoff)

Rocket Man

By Elton John

She packed by bag last night, preflight
Zero hour, nine a.m.
And I'm gonna be high
As a kite by then

I miss the earth so much
I miss my wife
It's lonely out in space
On such a timeless flight

And I think it's gonna be a long, long, time
'Til touchdown brings me 'round again to find
I'm not the man they think I am at home
Ah, no no no...
I'm a rocket man
Rocket man
Burnin' out his fuse
Up here alone

Mars ain't the kind of place
To raise your kids
In fact, it's cold as hell
And there's no one there to raise them
If you did