Last week I finished the book “Moonglow” and saw the movie “Moonlight.”
My double moon experience was a coincidence, but it left me contemplating these vastly different life stories with references to the same moon.
Moonglow was on my Fall-Winter reading list and it has since been named as a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Awards. It is based on the death-bed confessions of the author’s grandpa, including many stories he heard for the first time in the last week or so of his grandfather’s life.
The title here references the grandfather’s passion for space travel. I will never look at the official photo of the Challenger space crew the same due to one of the stories told in this book! Also, the first time he saw his wife was by “moonglow.”
was certainly out of my comfort zone, revolving around electricity, patent law, and Wall Street.
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is the first Ann Patchett novel I’ve read…since I’ve spent the last several years 
especially since I nearly abandoned it after 200 pages…this book is the longest work of fiction I can remember reading since 
by Beatrice Colin a “dra-mance” because it read as a romance set within uniquely Parisian drama.
not knowing too much about either of the Einsteins. I loved my physics classes but that was nearly 25 years ago!
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cover characterizes the book as well as possible: It reads as fiction, non-fiction, possibly poetry, and all of these genres together yet unlike any of them.