November 4, 2013 / Leslie

Mailbox Monday ~ November 4th

Mailbox Monday was created by The Printed Page. It is the gathering place for readers to share the books that came into their home last week. Currently on tour, it is hosted by a different blog each month.

The November host is Crystal @ I totally paused!.

I received some audio downloads and a print book from LibraryThing.

With the 50th Anniversary of the Kennedy assassination approaching I’ve noticed quite a few new books on the topic last month. The historical what-ifs have always fascinated me. The two I’ve received are both fictionalized accounts.

Print Books

Top Down by Jim Lehrer from LibraryThing.

November 22, 1963. As Air Force One touches down in Dallas, ambitious young newspaper reporter Jack Gilmore races to get the scoop on preparations for President Kennedy’s motorcade. Will the bubble top on the presidential limousine be up or down? Down, according to veteran Secret Service agent Van Walters. The decision to leave the top down and expose JFK to fire from above will weigh on Van’s conscience for decades. But will it also change the course of history?

Audiobooks

We Are Water by Wally Lamb from Harper Audio.
With humor and breathtaking compassion, Wally Lamb brilliantly captures the essence of human experience in vivid and unforgettable characters struggling to find hope and redemption in the aftermath of trauma and loss.

Blowback by Valerie Plame from Penguin Audio
Covert CIA ops officer Vanessa Pierson is finally close to capturing the world’s most dangerous international nuclear arms dealer: Bhoot, alias the ghost. One of her assets has information about Bhoot’s upcoming visit to a secret underground nuclear weapons facility in Iran-in only a few days. But just as Pierson’s informant is about to give her the location, they’re ambushed by an expert sniper. Pierson narrowly escapes. Her asset: dead.

If Kennedy Lived: The First and Second Terms of President John F. Kennedy: An Alternate History by Jeff Greenfield from Penguin Audio.
What if John F. Kennedy had not been killed on that fateful day in Dallas a half century ago? How would America and the world have been different? One of our most insightful and well-known political commentators, Jeff Greenfield, offers a fascinating, thought-provoking, and above all thoroughly plausible response to those questions.

What are you reading?