Entries by Anne-Marie Reader

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258. Go Set a Watchman

Rating:  ☆☆☆1/2 Recommended by: Author:   Harper Lee Genre:  Fiction, Historical Fiction 278 pages, published July 14, 2014 Reading Format:  Audio Book   Summary Go Set a Watchman is the sequel to the American classic To Kill a Mockingbird and the only other book written by Harper Lee who died within two years of its publication.   […]

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257. Olive Kitteridge

Rating:  ☆☆☆☆ Recommended by:   Molly Kirk Author:   Elizabeth Strout Genre:  Fiction 270 pages, published March 25, 2008 Reading Format:  Book   Summary Olive Kitteridge is a fascinating book that gives the reader keen insights into the human condition.   While Olive Kitteridge, a strong willed, difficult, overbearing retired schoolteacher is the main character, author Elizabeth Strout […]

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256. Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World

Rating:  ☆☆☆☆ Recommended by:   Karen Reader Author:   Bob Goff Genre:  Non Fiction, Theology, Christian, Self Improvement 224 pages, published May 12, 2012 Reading Format:  Book   Summary Love Does is a memoir by the somewhat eccentric, but very Jesus oriented, Bob Goff.  Bob is  a true original.  While in college, Bob spent 16 days in […]

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255. Why We Get Fat: And What to Do About It

Rating:  ☆☆☆☆ Recommended by:   Gretchen Rubin Author:   Gary Taubes Genre:  Non Fiction, Health, Nutrition, Science, Self Improvement, Food 272 pages, published December 28, 2010 Reading Format:  Book   Summary The title tells it all.  This a non-fiction book in which science writer Gary Taubes investigates and reports why we get fat.  Taubes argues, and empirically […]

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254. The Word is Murder

Rating:  ☆☆☆1/2 Recommended by:   Michael Koss Author:   Anthony Horowitz Genre:  Fiction, Mystery, Crime, Thriller, Suspense 400 pages, published June 5, 2018 Reading Format:  Book   Summary The Word is Murder opens with Diana Cowper, a wealthy woman who is the mother of a famous British actor, planning her own funeral.  Six hours later she is […]

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253. The Orphan Master’s Son

Rating:  ☆☆☆1/2 Recommended by:  Aileen Schwab Author:   Adam Johnson Genre:  Fiction, Historical Fiction 443 pages, published January 10, 2012 Reading Format:  e-Book   Summary Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, The Orphan Master’s Son is an epic novel set in North Korea.  The book follows the life of Pak Jun Do, whose mother, a beautiful singer, […]

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252. Young Jane Young

Rating:  ☆☆☆1/2 Recommended by: Author:   Gabrielle Zevin Genre:  Fiction 294 pages, published August 22, 2017 Reading Format:  e-Book Summary Young Jane Young is the fictional story of Aviva Grossman, a young Congressional intern in Florida whose life is ruined after she has an affair with her married boss, a beloved Congressman and blogs about it. […]

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251. Artemis

Rating:  ☆☆1/2 Recommended by: Author:   Andy Weir Genre:  Fiction, Science Fiction 305 pages, published November 14, 2017 Reading Format:  Audio Book   Summary Jazz Bashara is a petty criminal trying to make ends meet who lives on Artemis, the first and only city on the moon.  Everything changes when Jazz is given the offer to […]

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250. And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer

Rating:  ☆☆☆1/2 Recommended by: Author:  Fredrik Backman Genre:  Fiction, Short Stories, Novella 97 pages, published November 1, 2016 Reading Format:  Audio Book   Summary Bestselling author Fredrik Backman (A Man Called Ove and Bear Town) has written a moving, poignant short novella about the end of life transition faced by the elderly through the characters […]

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249. Clean Disruption of Energy and Transportation: How Silicon Valley Will Make Oil, Nuclear, Natural Gas, Coal, Electric Utilities and Conventional Cars Obsolete by 2030

Rating:  ☆☆☆ Recommended by: Author:  Tony Seba Genre:  Non Fiction, Science, Business, Public Policy 291 pages, published June 16, 2014 Reading Format:  Book   Summary In Clean Disruption of Energy and Transportation, Silicon Valley Entrepreneur, Stanford Professor and Futurist Tony Seba writes about the coming disruption in energy and transportation.  With a plethora of facts […]