Rating: ☆☆☆1/2 Recommended by: Author: Gretchen Rubin Genre: Non Fiction, Self Improvement 208 pages, published March 5, 2019 Reading Format: Book Summary Outer Order, Inner Calm is Gretchen Rubin’s take on the idea that maintaining order in your surroundings is an important contributor to your overall happiness. Rubin argues that getting control of the stuff […]
Rating: ☆☆☆ Recommended by: Heather Ringoen Author: Frederik Backman Genre: Fiction 372 pages, published June 16, 2015 Reading Format: Book Summary The protagonist of My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry is Elsa, a quirky seven year old who is picked on at school and who is learning to adapt to her parents’ […]
Rating: ☆☆☆ Recommended by: Author: Helen Schulman Genre: Fiction, Science Fiction 320 pages, published November 27, 2018 Reading Format: Book Summary Come With Me is set in modern day Palo Alto. Amy Reed, a part-time as a PR person for a tech start-up run by Donny, her college roommate’s nineteen-year-old son, and her husband Dan, […]
Rating: ☆☆☆☆ Recommended by: Kay Lynn Hartman Author: Dani Shapiro Genre: Non Fiction, Memoir 272 pages, published January 15, 2019 Reading Format: Audio Book on Overdrive Summary In Inheritance, serial memoirist Dani Shapiro writes about her discovery (through an over the counter genetic test that she took on a lark) that the man she thought […]
Rating: ☆☆☆ Recommended by: Margo Funk Author: Thomas Cathcart, Daniel Klein Genre: Non Fiction, Philosophy, Humor 200 pages, published May 1, 2007 Reading Format: Book Summary An overview of the great philosophical traditions, schools, concepts, and thinkers as told with humor and jokes. Quotes “Moses trudges down from Mt. Sinai, tablets in hand, and announces […]
Rating: ☆☆☆1/2 Recommended by: Author: Timothy Keller Genre: Non Fiction, Christian, Theology 224 pages, published February 3, 2015 Reading Format: Book Summary Romans For You 8-16 is the second half of Romans study by noted theologian and Christian writer Timothy Keller. Quotes “The same sun that melts wax hardens clay.” In other words, what makes […]
Rating: ☆☆☆ Recommended by: Author: Lisa Gardner Genre: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller, Suspense, Crime 402 pages, published February 9, 2016 Reading Format: Audio Book Summary Find Her is a crime thriller that tells the story of Flora Dane, a young woman who was kidnapped while on spring break. For 472 days, Flora was held captive and […]
Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆ Recommended by: Terra McKinnish Author: Trevor Noah Genre: Non Fiction, Memoir, Humor 304 pages, published November 15, 2016 Reading Format: Audio Book Summary Born a Crime is a memoir by comedian Trevor Noah, host of The Daily Show on Comedy Central, about his childhood and young adult years in South Africa. The book […]
Rating: ☆☆☆☆1/2 Recommended by: Lynn McInnes Author: Tana French Genre: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller, Suspense, Crime 528 pages, published October 9, 2018 Reading Format: Book Summary The protagonist in The Witch Elm is a modern day Dubliner named Toby, a carefree twenty something with a job at an art gallery, a nice flat and the perfect […]
Rating: ☆☆1/2 Recommended by: Author: Stephen Greenblatt Genre: Non-Fiction, History, Philosophy 356 pages, published September 4, 2012 Reading Format: Audio Book Summary The Swerve tells the story of the last surviving manuscript of an ancient Roman philosophical epic, On the Nature of Things, by Lucretius—a poem containing dangerous ideas: that the universe functioned without the […]