Rating: ☆☆☆☆ Recommended by: Lisa Stock Author: Chris Bohjalian Genre: Fiction 429 pages, published August, 2005 Reading Format: Book Summary Before You Know Kindness is a multi-generational saga focused on the McCullough and Seton families. Every summer Matriarch Nan Seton, an avid sportswoman, hosts her two granddaughters at the family compound in New Hampshire. […]
Rating: ☆☆☆☆ Recommended by: Author: Gabrielle Zevin Genre: Fiction 260 pages, published April 1, 2014 Reading Format: Audio Book Summary At the beginning of The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry, we meet A.J. Fikry, a 39 year old bookstore owner on Alice Island whose wife has just died and whose one very valuable asset, […]
Rating: ☆☆☆1/2 Recommended by: Author: C.S. Lewis Genre: Fiction, Christian, Theology 146 pages, published 1945 Reading Format: Audio Book Summary The Great Divorce is C.S. Lewis’s vision of the Afterworld in which the narrator boards a bus on a rainy English afternoon and embarks on an incredible voyage through Heaven and Hell. Along the […]
Rating: ☆☆1/2 Recommended by: Author: Hemant Mehta Genre: Non-Fiction, Theology, Memoir 224 pages, published April 17, 2007 Reading Format: Book Summary In the mid-2000’s, Heman Mehta received widespread notoriety as “the eBay atheist,” i.e. the nonbeliever who auctioned off the opportunity for the winning bidder to send him to church. Jim Henderson, a former […]
Rating: ☆☆☆1/2 Recommended by: John Breen Author: C.S. Lewis Genre: Fiction, Theology, Christian, Fantasy 223 pages, published 1942 Reading Format: Audio Book Summary This classic satire by the acclaimed C.S. Lewis is a sardonic portrayal of human life by the demon Screwtape, a senior tempter in the service of “Our Father Below.” The device […]
Rating: ☆☆☆ Recommended by: Author: Stephen King Genre: Fiction, Humor, Novella Only on audio, published June 30, 2015 Reading Format: Audio Book Summary Drunken Fireworks is a short novella by Stephen King that was only released as an Audio Book; there is no print version. It tells the story of Alden McCausland and his […]
Rating: ☆☆☆ Recommended by: Author: Jojo Moyes Genre: Fiction, Short Stories, Romance 106 pages, published February 5, 2015 Reading Format: Audio Book Summary The main story in this collection by JoJo Moyes is an account of 26 year old, introverted Nell, who lives in the UK and has never been to Paris. After planning […]
Rating: ☆☆☆1/2 Recommended by: Author: Nick Hornby Genre: Fiction, Historical Fiction, Humor 452 pages, published February 3, 2015 Reading Format: Audio Book Summary Funny Girl is the story of Sophie Straw, a blonde bombshell from a small English town who, in addition to her beauty, has a talent for making people laugh. Sophie moves […]
Rating: ☆☆☆ Recommended by: Author: Adam Grant Genre: Non-Fiction, Business, Psychology, Self Improvement 326 pages, published February 2, 2016 Reading Format: Audio Book Summary In Originals, author Adam Grant studies different types of originality and explores how can to develop new ideas, policies, and practices while minimizing risk. Grant relates anecdotes from the worlds […]
Rating: ☆☆☆1/2 Recommended by: Author: Elizabeth Wein Genre: Fiction, Historical Fiction, World War II 368 pages, published September 10, 2013 Reading Format: Audio Book Summary While flying an Allied fighter plane from Paris to England, American ATA pilot and amateur poet, Rose Justice, is captured by the Nazis and sent to Ravensbrück, a notorious […]