Adam Higginbotham

My name is Lisa, and I am from New Jersey.

The five-star read I'm bringing you today is Challenger, a true story of heroism and disaster on the edge of space by Adam Higginbotham.

This is not a book I would have normally picked up on my own.

I actually read it for a book club read, but I am so glad that I did.

And so I just thought it was really an interesting look into this rise and at times fall, uh, for, uh, for Culture Club and in particular Boy George and what he became, uh, culturally, uh, out there and how he, from a very young age, kind of envisioned it and made it happen along with, uh, Along with the rest of the band.

And then the other thing is I just finished Midnight in Chernobyl book came out in 2019 by Adam Higginbotham.

And, you know, for those that maybe don't don't remember back in 1986, the nuclear reactor that exploded in Chernobyl at the nuclear power plant there.

And it's an amazing story.

What book are you reading at the moment?

There's a great retelling of the Spatial Challenger disaster written by Adam Higginbotham.

First of all, this incident in history is of great interest to me because I grew up really wanting to know a lot about the U.S. space program.

And the Challenger accident was such a It's one of those moments you remember exactly where you were.

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[laughs] ... by Adam Higginbotham.

Brilliant.

It reads kind of like a movie.