#66 Anthony Bourdain Remembered by CNN

This is a memorial book that collects quotes from both the famous and the unknown about Bourdain. All the photos are from his later episodes and they work well with the quotes used in the book. It was a sad reminder of what the world has lost when he decided to leave.

#67 Have Space Suit—Will Travel by Robert A. Heinlein, Mark Turetsky (Narrator)

Kip is a high schools senior that is highly motivated to go to the Moon. He enters a contest to win a trip there and doesn’t win but does receive a used space suit. The contest does offer him the chance to sell it back to them for a cash prize which he is thinking about even as he spends time refurbishing the suit and wearing the suit as much as he can. The afternoon before he is ready to give it up an alien attacks him as he is giving radio signals to a ship trying to land on Earth. So begins Kips adventures on the Moon and beyond with only his wits and a partnership with PeeWee a girl genus kidnapped while on the moon and the Mother Thing, an alien from a different race than the one that has taken PeeWee and now Kip.

I may have been the wrong age to read this, but Kip kept getting under my skin. He starts out as kid floating though school until his dad sets him down to explain that his school isn’t that great and he will have to self-educate himself if he really wants to go to the good schools. As an audio book it got a bit tedious listening to all the science formulas being spoken out but that is more on a problem with the audio than the book. In the end it wasn’t a book for me even though I’ve read and enjoyed lots of his other books.