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Ever wonder what it would be like to stand in the shoes of an astronaut’s wife?\u00a0 If you grew up in the 60s and 70s, I can almost guarantee that you did!\u00a0 <\/span>The book goes through the years of lift-offs, landings and explosions with an emphasis on the wives’ friendship and support of one another.\u00a0 <\/span>Through the years, the book offers a glimpse into their lives by showing\u00a0cheating husbands, widows, colorful personalities among the astronauts and their wives, the first divorce, the women’s liberation movement and political mayhem.\u00a0 The book doesn\u2019t go into that much depth —\u00a0 it\u2019s more of an overview of their lives and of the times.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n What I didn\u2019t like was that the book jumped around often, so it was confusing to remember which wife was married to which astronaut as the book went on. \u00a0There were a few pictures in the book of some of the wives, but since Koppel frequently referred to them by their first names,\u00a0it became confusing as more astronauts were added to the program.<\/span>\u00a0 It would have been very helpful to have a chart showing the husband’s name and the wife’s name … like a family tree. \u00a0Overall, I enjoyed the book since I was a child of the 60s and could relate to those times.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ever wonder what it would be like to stand in the shoes of an astronaut’s wife?\u00a0 If you grew up in the 60s and 70s, I can almost guarantee that you did!\u00a0 The book goes through the years of lift-offs, landings and explosions with an emphasis on the wives’ friendship and support of one another.\u00a0 … Continue reading The Astronaut Wives Club by Lily Koppel<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,10,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-books-for-adults","category-nonfiction","category-reviewed-by-joann"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}