Rating: ☆☆☆☆1/2 Recommended by: Author: Ernest Cline Genre: Fiction, Science Fiction, Dystopia, Young Adult, Thriller 374 pages, published August 16, 2011 Reading Format: Audio Book Summary Ready Player One takes place in the year 2044. The earth is mostly a wasteland with most residents choosing to live in the virtual reality of the OASIS. […]
Rating: ☆1/2 Recommended by: Author: Paul Harding Genre: Fiction 192 pages, published January 1, 2009 Reading Format: Book Summary An old man lies dying. Propped up in his living room and surrounded by his children and grandchildren, George Washington Crosby drifts in and out of consciousness, back to the wonder and pain of his […]
Rating: ☆☆☆☆ Recommended by: Author: Bryan Cranston Genre: Non-Fiction, Memoir 271 pages, published October 11, 2016 Reading Format: Audio Book Summary A Life in Parts is the memoir of Bryan Cranston, star of Malcolm in the Middle and Breaking Bad. Cranston landed his first role at seven, when his father cast him in a […]
Rating: ☆☆☆☆1/2 Recommended by: Author: Meg Wolitzer Genre: Fiction 468 pages, published April 9, 2013 Reading Format: Audio Book Summary During the summer of Nixon’s resignation, six teenagers at a summer camp for the arts meet, become bonded as friends and dub themselves “the Interestings,” based on their self assessment that they are all […]
Rating: ☆☆☆☆ Recommended by: Author: Graeme Macrae Burnet Genre: Fiction, Crime 280 pages, published November 5, 2015 Reading Format: E-Book on Overdrive Summary A brutal triple murder in a remote Scottish farming community in 1869 leads to the arrest of seventeen-year-old Roderick “Roddy” Macrae. While there is no question that Macrae committed this […]
Rating: ☆☆☆1/2 Recommended by: Adrienne Rosel Bulinski Author: Adrienne Rosel Bulinski Genre: Memoir, Non-Fiction, Motivational 344 pages, published September 21, 2016 Reading Format: Book Summary Blood, Sweat and Tiaras is the memoir of Adrienne Rosel Bulinski, a friend of mind, and a former Miss Kansas who suffered a life changing injury when she was […]
Rating: ☆☆☆1/2 Recommended by: Author: Carlo Rovelli Genre: Non-Fiction, Science 86 pages, published March 1, 2016 Reading Format: Book Summary In seven brief lessons, Italian theoretical physicist Carlo Rovelli guides readers with through the most transformative physics breakthroughs of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. This entertaining introduction to modern physics explains general relativity, […]
Rating: ☆☆1/2 Recommended by: Author: S. Yates Genre: Non-Fiction, Travel 138 pages, published April 2013 Reading Format: Book Summary Camino de Santiago: Pilgrim Tips and Packing List is a travel book to read to prepare yourself for hiking the Camino de Santiago, the famous pilgrimage through Northern Spain immortalized in the movie The […]
Rating: ☆☆☆ Recommended by: Author: T. Harv Eker Genre: Non-Fiction, Personal Finance, Psychology, Self Improvement 212 pages, published February 15, 2005 Reading Format: Book Summary Secrets of the Millionaire Mind is not your typical personal finance book. Rather than focusing on procedures for getting rich, T. Harv Ecker (“Harv”) emphasizes that before you […]
Rating: ☆☆1/2 Recommended by: Nancy Sissom Author: Michael Chabon Genre: Historical Fiction, Fiction 430 pages, published November 22, 2016 Reading Format: Audio Book Summary In 1989, after the publication of his first novel, writer Michael Chabon traveled to his mother’s home in Oakland, California to visit his terminally ill grandfather. Chabon’s grandfather shared recollections […]