Rating: ☆☆☆☆ Recommended by: Author: Mollie Hemingway and Carrie Severino Genre: Non Fiction, Politics, History, Law 375 pages, published July 9, 2019 Reading Format: Book Summary Justice on Trial is an account of the bitter and circus like confirmation battle for Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh who replaced Anthony Kennedy on the court in 2018. […]
Rating: ☆☆☆☆1/2 Recommended by: Author: J.K. Rowling Genre: Fiction, Young Adult, Fantasy 357 pages, published June 26, 1997 Reading Format: Audio Book Summary Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone is the first book in the classic Harry Potter series. The book opens with orphaned Harry living a miserable life with his uncaring Aunt and Uncle. […]
Rating: ☆☆1/2 Recommended by: Author: Mary Losure Genre: Non Fiction, Biography, Science, History 176 pages, published February 1, 2017 Reading Format: Audio Book on Overdrive Summary Isaac the Alchemist is a biography of Isaac Newton, the father of physics, an extraordinary mathematician, and leader of the scientific revolution. It starts with his boyhood living in […]
Rating: ☆☆1/2 Recommended by: Author: Matt Taibbi Genre: Non Fiction, Politics, Public Policy 352 pages, published January 17, 2017 Reading Format: Audio Book on Overdrive Summary Insane Clown President: Dispatches from the 2016 Circus is a collection of 25 pieces written for Rolling Stone magazine, plus 2 original essays, by correspondent Matt Taibbi. Taibbi tells […]
Rating: ☆☆1/2 Recommended by: Author: Frank Lipman, M.D. Genre: Non Fiction, Health, Nutrition, Self Improvement 224 pages, published December 13, 2016 Reading Format: Audio Book on Hoopla Summary The New Health Rules contains succinct tips on how to be a healthy person, covering categories from nutrition to exercise to stress reduction. Quotes “Make your default […]
Rating: ☆☆ Recommended by: Author: Jennifer McCartney Genre: Non Fiction, Humor, Self Improvement 144 pages, published April 3, 2018 Reading Format: Audio Book on Hoopla Summary As you can tell by the title, The Joy of Doing Just Enough isn’t a motivational, self-improvement book. Rather, author Jennifer McCartney advocates that doing “just enough” to get […]
Rating: ☆☆1/2 Recommended by: Author: Stephen King Genre: Fiction, Mystery, Crime, Thriller, Novella 205 pages, published October 4, 2005 Reading Format: Book Summary The Colorado Kid is a novella by master storyteller Stephen King that centers around an unsolved mystery. On an island off the coast of Maine, a man is found dead. There’s no […]
Rating: ☆☆☆☆1/2 Recommended by: Ben Shapiro Author: Greg Lukianoff, Jonathan Haidt Genre: Non Fiction, Public Policy, Education, Philosophy, Psychology, Parenting 352 pages, published September 4, 2018 Reading Format: Audio Book Summary The Coddling of the American Mind, by First Amendment expert Greg Lukianoff and Social Psychologist Jonathan Haidt, explores significant changes in what the authors […]
Rating: ☆☆☆☆1/2 Recommended by: Tammis and David Matzinger Author: John Carreyrou Genre: Non Fiction, Business, Crime, Science 339 pages, published May 21, 2018 Reading Format: Book Summary Bad Blood is written by John Carreyrou, the Wall Street Journal reporter who broke the story of massive fraud and deception by Silicon Valley startup Theranos which was […]
Rating: ☆☆☆1/2 Recommended by: Author: Gail Honeyman Genre: Fiction 327 pages, published May 9, 2017 Reading Format: Book Summary Eleanor Oliphant is a woman who is hard to pin down. She is socially awkward and usually say exactly what she’s thinking. Her life is planned around work with weekends reserved for frozen pizza, vodka, and […]