Traci Thomas
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This trend, I think you're right. I think this is like the millennial moment of also like the way that we talk about divorce is different. People are like posting videos of themselves crying, being like, I'm finally free. And like, it's just a different attitude towards it.
This trend, I think you're right. I think this is like the millennial moment of also like the way that we talk about divorce is different. People are like posting videos of themselves crying, being like, I'm finally free. And like, it's just a different attitude towards it.
This trend, I think you're right. I think this is like the millennial moment of also like the way that we talk about divorce is different. People are like posting videos of themselves crying, being like, I'm finally free. And like, it's just a different attitude towards it.
And so I think these memoirs feel really different because the way that especially women feel like they are getting out of something that they were lied to about what it might be. Sold a bad bill of goods. That's exactly right.
And so I think these memoirs feel really different because the way that especially women feel like they are getting out of something that they were lied to about what it might be. Sold a bad bill of goods. That's exactly right.
And so I think these memoirs feel really different because the way that especially women feel like they are getting out of something that they were lied to about what it might be. Sold a bad bill of goods. That's exactly right.
So I think there is something to this trend that I think is going to stick around, like you said, into next year and probably for a little bit longer as our generation figures out how we want to tell these stories.
So I think there is something to this trend that I think is going to stick around, like you said, into next year and probably for a little bit longer as our generation figures out how we want to tell these stories.
So I think there is something to this trend that I think is going to stick around, like you said, into next year and probably for a little bit longer as our generation figures out how we want to tell these stories.
Okay, this book is fantastic, okay? I just want to throw that out and blink it. The energy is infectious. I'm ready. I just love this book so much. Okay, the book is called Challenger. It's by Adam Higginbotham. He is the fellow who wrote the Chernobyl book, Midnight at Chernobyl, that turned into the HBO show. Right. This is all about the Challenger disaster in 1986. Oh my gosh.
Okay, this book is fantastic, okay? I just want to throw that out and blink it. The energy is infectious. I'm ready. I just love this book so much. Okay, the book is called Challenger. It's by Adam Higginbotham. He is the fellow who wrote the Chernobyl book, Midnight at Chernobyl, that turned into the HBO show. Right. This is all about the Challenger disaster in 1986. Oh my gosh.
Okay, this book is fantastic, okay? I just want to throw that out and blink it. The energy is infectious. I'm ready. I just love this book so much. Okay, the book is called Challenger. It's by Adam Higginbotham. He is the fellow who wrote the Chernobyl book, Midnight at Chernobyl, that turned into the HBO show. Right. This is all about the Challenger disaster in 1986. Oh my gosh.
I just got chills. I got chills from your reactions. I mean... Okay, so here's the thing that Adam Higginbotham maybe does better than anyone I've ever read, which is we all know what happens. We know the ending, okay? But he starts the book at the end as most of these kind of nonfiction books do. Then he goes back. He starts in like the 1960s with NASA.
I just got chills. I got chills from your reactions. I mean... Okay, so here's the thing that Adam Higginbotham maybe does better than anyone I've ever read, which is we all know what happens. We know the ending, okay? But he starts the book at the end as most of these kind of nonfiction books do. Then he goes back. He starts in like the 1960s with NASA.
I just got chills. I got chills from your reactions. I mean... Okay, so here's the thing that Adam Higginbotham maybe does better than anyone I've ever read, which is we all know what happens. We know the ending, okay? But he starts the book at the end as most of these kind of nonfiction books do. Then he goes back. He starts in like the 1960s with NASA.
He goes into all of the astronauts who are on the flight and he takes you all the way through the science of how they built the shuttles, everything. And you finally get... to January 1986. And by the time you get there, I was literally saying, there's no way they launch this shuttle. It's not possible. It is not possible that this will happen.
He goes into all of the astronauts who are on the flight and he takes you all the way through the science of how they built the shuttles, everything. And you finally get... to January 1986. And by the time you get there, I was literally saying, there's no way they launch this shuttle. It's not possible. It is not possible that this will happen.
He goes into all of the astronauts who are on the flight and he takes you all the way through the science of how they built the shuttles, everything. And you finally get... to January 1986. And by the time you get there, I was literally saying, there's no way they launch this shuttle. It's not possible. It is not possible that this will happen.
There's one scene where they talk about if they should or shouldn't. And... I thought that that scene was going to end in a totally different way. Like he writes it in a way where you, knowing the ending, cannot believe that it possibly could have happened. And you know all the astronauts' names and you know their wives' names and you know what happened to them. It's just like...