Rating: ☆☆☆ Recommended by: Author: Josh Gondelman Genre: Memoir, Humor 272 pages, published September 17, 2019 Reading Format: Audiobook on Overdrive Summary Nice Try is a memoir of essays by Emmy Award-winning stand-up comic and humor writer Josh Gondelman. Dubbed one of comedy’s true “nice guys,” Gondelman recounts stories from his childhood, adolescence, college, making […]
Rating: ☆☆☆1/2 Recommended by: J.D. Roth Author: Greg McKeown Genre: Non Fiction, Self Improvement, Business, Philosophy 260 pages, published April 14, 2014 Reading Format: Audiobook on Overdrive Summary The theme of Essentialism is that your life can be markedly improved if you focus on the things that are truly important to you and cut out […]
Rating: ☆☆1/2 Recommended by: Joni Renee Zalk Author: Naomi Novik Genre: Fiction, Fantasy 435 pages, published May 19, 2014 Reading Format: Book Summary The protagonist of Uprooted is Agnieszka, a village girl who is selected by “The Dragon,” a magical wizard who every ten years chooses a girl to take to his tower. The Dragon, […]
Rating: ☆☆☆1/2 Recommended by: Author: Emily St. John Mandel Genre: Fiction, Dystopia, Science Fiction 333 pages, published September 9, 2014 Reading Format: Audio Book Summary Station Eleven is a dystopian novel set in the days of civilization’s collapse after a virus kills off most of the world’s population. Author Emily St. John Mandel examines how […]
Rating: ☆☆☆1/2 Recommended by: Author: Byron Lane Genre: Fiction 343 pages, published July 8, 2020 Reading Format: Audiobook on Overdrive Summary A Star is Bored is written from the perspective of Charlie Besson, a young gay man who is hired by movie star Kathi Kannon to work as her personal assistant. The novel is not […]
Rating: ☆☆☆ Recommended by: Ben and Drue Emerson Author: Lindsey Fitzharris Genre: Non Fiction, Biography, Science, Medicine, Health 304 pages, published October 31, 2017 Reading Format: Book Summary The Butchering Art tells the story of Joseph Lister, a Quaker surgeon in nineteenth-century England and Scotland who solved the riddle of post operative infections. Drawing from […]
Rating: ☆☆☆☆ Recommended by: Deidre Farrell Author: Reed Hastings and Erin Meyer Genre: Nonfiction, Business 464 pages, published September 8, 2020 Reading Format: Book Summary In No Rules Rules, Netflix cofounder Reed Hastings and business writer Erin Meyer explore the unique culture behind one of the world’s most innovative and successful companies. Launched in 1998 […]
Rating: ☆☆☆ Recommended by: Joni Renee Zalk Author: John Scalzi Genre: Fiction, Science Fiction, Mystery, Novella 130 pages, published October 4, 2016 Reading Format: Book Summary In the not too distant future, it becomes almost impossible to murder anyone. 99.9% of people intentionally killed come back to life. We don’t know how it happens, but […]
Rating: ☆☆☆☆ Recommended by: Author: Mary Beth Keane Genre: Fiction 390 pages, published May 28, 2019 Reading Format: Book Summary Ask Again, Yes is a work of fiction about two neighboring families in a suburban town outside of New York City, the bond between their children, a tragedy that echos over four decades, the daily […]
Rating: ☆☆☆1/2 Recommended by: Carl Moor Author: Colson Whitehead Genre: Fiction, Historical Fiction 213 pages, published July 16, 2019 Reading Format: Audiobook Summary In 1960’s Tallahassee, a young black boy named Elwood Curtis , a black boy growing up in 1960s Tallahassee is unjustly sent to an infamous juvenile reformatory called the Nickel Academy. Struggling […]