The Third book has been on my to-read shelf for a while. It is the second choice for the retirement community book club that I'm leading. The book is The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes

The book was well written but it offered nothing fresh. It won the Man Booker Prize in 2011 so I expected it to be really good but it actually just felt really slopped together. More old-man-musings. Can we not appreciate anything else as literature? Come on people.
3/5

The second book I read is for the new bookclub I am leading. I'm getting paid $100 per session to lead it! Can you believe that? The book was Thomas Jefferson, Rachel, and Me. Quite a title, right?

The book was yet another musings-of-an-old-man who played the game I love to play- "Imagine someone from the past is transported into the present." That "someone" just happens to be Thomas Jefferson. While the book wasn't very good - it was well written but the plot was just tedious - I did learn a few things about Mr. Jefferson that I didn't previously know.
2/5

It's a new year and I promise to get back on the bandwagon. This year I have already read three books!

Trance:Formation of America by Cathy O'Brien and Mark Philips was incredibly entertaining. Riff with typos, about 80% rape, with questionable content, Cathy O'Brien recounts her alleged time spent as a mind-controlled slave in the MKUltra project. I learned a lot about mind control though and feel much more informed after reading this book - even if it is hogwash.