Rating: ☆☆☆ Recommended by: Author: David Foster Wallace Genre: Nonfiction, Essays, Humor, Memoir 353 pages, published February 2, 1998 Reading Format: Book Summary This book by the much praised David Foster Wallace is a collection of seven pieces on subjects ranging from television to tennis, from the Illinois State Fair to the films of David […]
Rating: ☆☆☆1/2 Recommended by: Lisa Goldberg Author: Ronan Farrow Genre: Nonfiction, Crime, Politics 448 pages, published October 15, 2019 Reading Format: Audio Book Summary Catch and Kill is the story behind Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Ronan Farrow’s groundbreaking story in which he helped to expose the powerful interests, including his own employer NBC News, who […]
Rating: ☆☆☆☆ Recommended by: Author: Margaret Atwood Genre: Fiction, Science Fiction, Dystopia 422 pages, published September 10, 2019 Reading Format: Audio Book Summary The Testaments is a decades long awaited sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale by acclaimed author Margaret Atwood. In it, Atwood continues the story of Gilead, a dystopian future country that supplants the […]
Rating: ☆☆☆ Recommended by: Joni Renee Author: Sara Gruen Genre: Fiction, Historical Fiction, Romance, Foreign, World War II 348 pages, published March 31, 2015 Reading Format: Audio Book Summary At the Water’s Edge tells the story of Maddie Hyde, a young ingénue who has entered into a disastrous marriage with Ellis Hyde (who may be […]
Rating: ☆☆☆ Recommended by: Sue Deans Author: Alex Kotlowitz Genre: Nonfiction, Crime, Sociology 304 pages, published March 5, 2019 Reading Format: Audio Book Summary Alex Kotlowitz, the bestselling author of There Are No Children Here, embeds himself in Chicago’s most turbulent neighborhoods during one summer to give a report from the inside. The violence is […]
Rating: ☆☆☆1/2 Recommended by: Heather Ringoen Author: Helen Russell Genre: Nonfiction, Travel, Memoir, Foreign 304 pages, published May 19, 2014 Reading Format: Book Summary Brit Helen Russell was living in London and facing burn out. When her husband gets a job at Lego in Denmark, which is officially the happiest nation on Earth, they decide […]
Rating: ☆☆☆1/2 Recommended by: Author: Joel Stein Genre: Nonfiction, Politics, Sociology, Humor, Economics 336 pages, published October 22, 2019 Reading Format: Book Summary In Defense of Elitism is former TIME columnist Joel Stein’s take on America’s political culture war and a defense of the elite to which he proudly claims membership. The night Donald Trump […]
Rating: ☆☆☆1/2 Recommended by: Author: Abraham Verghese Genre: Nonfiction, Memoir, Medicine 368 pages, published 1998 Reading Format: Book Summary The Tennis Partner is a memoir by Abraham Verghese, the author of the bestselling book Cutting for Stone. Verghese writes about a time earlier in his medical career when he befriended David Smith, an Australian medical […]
Rating: ☆☆☆☆ Recommended by: Valerie Flores Author: Patrick Radden Keefe Genre: Nonfiction, Crime, History, Foreign pages, published Reading Format: Book Summary In December 1972, Jean McConville, a thirty-eight-year-old mother of ten, was dragged from her Belfast home by masked intruders. Her children never saw her again. In her early 20’s, I.R.A. terrorist Dolours Price planted […]
Rating: ☆☆☆ Recommended by: Mike Brady Author: Michio Kaku Genre: Nonfiction, Science, Technology 368 pages, published February 20, 2018 Reading Format: Audio Book on Overdrive Summary The Future of Humanity focuses on human space travel and colonization of other planets. Futurist Michio Kaku explores how developments in robotics, nanotechnology, and biotechnology could enable us to […]