Rating: ☆☆☆ Recommended by: Author: Kaye Gibbons Genre: Fiction 167 pages, published November 5, 1997 Reading Format: Book Summary When Jack Stokes met Ruby Woodrow, she was twenty and he was forty. Ruby was the daughter of a Carolina gentry family and was a newly widowed after disastrous marriage to a brutal drifter. Jack was […]
Rating: ☆☆☆1/2 Recommended by: Author: Jojo Moyes Genre: Fiction, Romance 469 pages, published October 23, 2018 Reading Format: Audio Book Summary Still Me is the third installment in the story of Louisa Clark. Having recovered from the devasting loss of Will Traynor (chronicled in Me Before You) and still in thrall to her new romance […]
Rating: ☆☆☆1/2 Recommended by: Karen Reader Author: Max Lucado Genre: Non Fiction, Theology, Christian 144 pages, published October 24, 1999 Reading Format: Book Summary On Calvary’s Hill is a 40 day Devotional leading up to Easter chronicling the passion of Christ and exploring his final days. Quotes “Why is the cross the symbol of our […]
Rating: ☆☆☆1/2 Recommended by: Author: Chloe Benjamin Genre: Fiction 346 pages, published January 9, 2018 Reading Format: Audio Book Summary The Immortalists opens in 1969 in New York City’s Lower East Side. The four adolescent Gold children seek out a mystical woman to hear their fortunes. When she tells each of them the date when […]
Rating: ☆☆☆1/2 Recommended by: Author: Arthur C. Brooks Genre: Non Fiction, Politics, Cultural 256 pages, published March 12, 2019 Reading Format: Book Summary In Love Your Enemies, author, economist and former president of free market think tank The American Enterprise Institute, diagnoses a problem we all familiar with, namely the polarization of our country into […]
Rating: ☆☆☆1/2 Recommended by: Frank and Lisanne Author: Lisa Halliday Genre: Fiction 277 pages, published February 6, 2018 Reading Format: Book Summary Told in three distinct sections, Asymmetry explores the imbalances that spark and sustain many of our most dramatic human relations: inequities in age, power, talent, wealth, fame, geography, and justice. The first section, […]
Rating: ☆☆☆ Recommended by: Author: David Sedaris Genre: Non Fiction, Memoir, Humor 272 pages, published May 29, 2018 Reading Format: Audio Book Summary Calypso is a collection of short stories by the humorous essayist David Sedaris. As with many of his previous books (Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls) Sedaris writes about his family and also […]
Rating: ☆☆☆ Recommended by: Author: Fumio Sasaki Genre: Non Fiction, Self Improvement 288 pages, published April 11, 2017 Reading Format: Audio Book on Overdrive Summary In Goodbye, Things, author Fumio Sasaki changed his life by reducing his possessions to the bare minimum. He describes how right away he repeated remarkable benefits. Without all his “stuff,” […]
Rating: ☆☆☆1/2 Recommended by: Lisa Goldberg Author: Susan Orlean Genre: Non Fiction, History 336 pages, published October 16, 2018 Reading Format: Audio Book Summary In 1986, the Los Angeles Public Library experienced a devastating fire. It reached 2000 degrees, burned for more than seven hours, destroyed four hundred thousand books and damaged seven hundred thousand […]
Rating: ☆☆☆1/2 Recommended by: Drue Emerson Author: Kristin Hannah Genre: Fiction, Historical Fiction 435 pages, published February 6, 2018 Reading Format: Audio Book Summary The Great Alone takes place in 1974 Alaska when 13 year old Leni Albright moves there with her father, Ernt, an impulsive and unstable former Vietnam POW, and her mother Cora, […]