Nilsa Kister

Nilsa’s Bookshelves

to-read‎ (87)
currently-reading‎ (0)
read‎ (209)
did-not-finish‎ (0)
2025‎ (1)
2025-challenge‎ (1)
2025-reading-list‎ (1)
2025-tbr‎ (1)
5-stars‎ (1)
adventure‎ (1)
all-time-favorites‎ (1)

book-club‎ (1)
books-i-own‎ (1)
bookshelf‎ (1)
contemporary‎ (1)
crime‎ (1)
crime-fiction‎ (1)
dark‎ (1)
drama‎ (1)
faves‎ (1)
favorite‎ (1)
favorites‎ (1)

favs‎ (1)
fiction‎ (1)
i-own‎ (1)
kindle‎ (1)
my-books‎ (1)
my-library‎ (1)
mystery‎ (1)
mystery-thriller‎ (1)
novels‎ (1)
on-my-bookshelf‎ (1)
on-my-shelf‎ (1)

own‎ (1)
owned‎ (1)
re-read‎ (1)
reading-challenge‎ (1)
suspense‎ (1)
tbr-2025‎ (1)
thriller‎ (1)
thriller-mystery‎ (1)
to-buy‎ (1)
want-to-buy‎ (1)
wishlist‎ (1)

Stats | More…

“During the crossing, Einstein explained his theory to me every day, and by the time we arrived I was fully convinced that he really understands it.”
― Walter Isaacson, Einstein: His Life and Universe

9 likes

“What matters most:
"What he had yearned to embrace was not the flesh but a downy spirit, a spark, the impalpable angel that inhabits the flesh."
Wind, Sand and Stars.”
― Richard Bach

tags: embrace, spirit

8 likes

“We curse the US government, we curse the Army, we curse the savagery of mankind, white and Indian alike. We curse God in his heaver. Do not underestimate the power of a mother's vengeance." (from the journals of Margaret Kelly)”
― Jim Fergus, One Thousand White Women The Journals of May Dodd

22 likes

“Elliot,” the President pleaded with him as the Attorney General entered, “Brezhnev wouldn’t understand if I didn’t fire Cox after all this.” Nixon urged Richardson to delay.”
― Carl Bernstein, The Final Days

10 likes

“Another new and groundbreaking story in FDR Unmasked is about his highly consequential friendship with Vincent Astor, the closest with any man in his adult life. To truly understand the “real” Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the one behind his mask of deception, it is important to understand their almost brotherly relationship.”
― Steven Lomazow, FDR Unmasked: 73 Years of Medical Cover-ups That Rewrote History