You Deserve to Know

By: Aggie Blum Thompson

Libby audiobook 10 hours

Read by: Alex Picard

Published: 2025

Genre: suspense

I've listened to just over three hours of this book and have decided to allow myself to NOT find out what Anton thought Amy "deserved to know" or who killed Anton or why.

I did not like these characters. Any of them.

Anton and Gwen with their awful marriage, his infidelities and lies about his writing, Gwen being the "interloper" in Lisa's and Amy's friendship . . . just so much yuk.

Marcus and Lisa weren't much better. She lied and made excuses (fake ankle injury because she didn't like skiing, stealing Gwen's Xanax just to mess with her . . . ) and then admitted to keying an ex-boyfriend's new GF's car and only regretting it because she was caught on camera! What an awful human being!

Scott and Amy were interesting but also petty and fake. Scott's evasiveness and excuses, Amy's unwillingness to have boundaries for "the boys," . . . ugh. I just didn't like these people very much.

So despite my curiosity about the mystery elements of this story, I'm returning it unfinished. It's a gift I'm giving myself. Lots of other books await my attention!

The Race to Space: Countdown to Liftoff

part of a series (#2) called "Epic Fails"

By: Ben Thompson and Erik Slader

Libby audiobook 2 hours

read by ? Ben Thompson?

Published: 2018 (this version 2019)

Genre: YA Non-fiction

 

I got this so Joshua could enjoy listening in the car, but I think it was a little too boring for him. It was interesting to me, though.  I wanted to learn more about Werner Von Braun, Los Alamos, NM, Laika, what else was going on in 1957, various astronauts, and Gemini.

I had recently talked about Apollo 11 and the name of the third astronaut. I remembered Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin. Louie said the third was John Glenn. I was confident that it was NOT John Glenn, but couldn't come up with the correct answer: Michael Collins.

Also, I wondered about Gus Grissom and what he did. I wanted to re-watch Apollo 13 and figure out the Hollywood vs. reality differences. 

Enjoyable. Joshua is *very* into rockets right now.