Rating: ☆☆☆☆ Recommended by: Noelle Mayne Author: Nevil Shute Genre: Fiction, Historical Fiction, Foreign 372 pages, published 1950 Reading Format: Book Summary A Town Like Alice follows the story of Jean Paget, a young British woman who spends World War II trying to survive in Malaya as she and a group of women and children […]
Rating: ☆☆☆☆1/2 Recommended by: Author: Gary Janetti Genre: Nonfiction, Humor, Memoir, Essays 159 pages, published October 22, 2019 Reading Format: Book Summary Do You Mind If I Cancel? is a humorous memoir of essays by Gary Janetti, a television writer and producer for some of the most popular television comedies of all time. Quotes “Let’s […]
Rating: ☆☆☆☆ Recommended by: Author: John Ortberg Genre: Nonfiction, Christian, Theology 208 pages, published April 22, 2014 Reading Format: Book Summary Soul Keeping is an in depth exploration of the state of your soul and has prescriptions for how to improve it. By trying to buy your way to happiness and focus on the material […]
Rating: ☆☆ Recommended by: Drue Emerson Author: Amal El-Mohtar Genre: Fiction, Science Fiction 209 pages, published July 16, 2019 Reading Format: Book Summary This Is How You Lose the Time War is written from by two authors, Amal-El Mohtar and Max Gladstone, and is told from the perspectives of Red and Blue, two time-traveling agents […]
Rating: ☆☆☆☆ Recommended by: Drue Emerson, Valerie Flores Author: Adrienne Brodeur Genre: Nonfiction, Memoir 256 pages, published October 15, 2016 Reading Format: Book Summary Wild Game is an interesting and unique memoir. Adrienne Brodeur begins her story on a hot July night on Cape Cod when and her mother Malabar woke her at midnight to […]
Rating: ☆☆☆☆ Recommended by: Joni Renee Author: Taylor Jenkins Reid Genre: Fiction, Historical Fiction, Music 355 pages, published March 5, 2019 Reading Format: Audio Book Summary Daisy Jones & The Six is a fictional account of a band whose album Aurora came to define the late seventies rock ‘n’ roll era. Led by the brooding […]
Rating: ☆☆☆ Recommended by: Author: Marina Keegan Genre: Nonfiction, Fiction, Short Stories, Essays, Memoir 208 pages, published April 8, 2014 Reading Format: Book Summary The Opposite of Loneliness is a collection of essays written by Marina Keegan , a talented young writer whose title essay captured the world’s attention in 2012. Tragically, five days after […]
Rating: ☆☆1/2 Recommended by: Mike Brady Author: Nelson DeMille Genre: Fiction, Thriller, Mystery, Suspense 448 pages, published October 22, 2019 Reading Format: Audio Book Summary Army Special Operator Scott Brodie and Maggie Taylor of the Criminal Investigation Division are sent in by the military to Venezuela to capture Captain Kyle Mercer of the Army’s elite […]
Rating: ☆☆☆☆ Recommended by: Terra McKinnish Author: Julian Barnes Genre: Fiction 163 pages, published May 29, 2012 Reading Format: Book Summary In The Sense of an Ending, we follow Tony Webster, a middle-aged British man, as he contends with forgotten parts of his past after receives a mysterious legacy and is forced to revise his […]
Rating: ☆☆☆☆ Recommended by: Terra McKinish Author: Kent Haruf Genre: Fiction, Romance 179 pages, published May 26, 2015 Reading Format: Book Summary In the small town of Holt, Colorado, widow Addie Moore pays an unexpected visit to her neighbor and widower Louis Waters to ask him is whether he would be interested spending time with […]