Rating: ☆☆1/2 Recommended by: Author: Brad Wilson Genre: Non Fiction, Personal Finance 208 pages, published January 14, 2013 Reading Format: Audio Book Summary Do More, Spend Less by Brad Wilson, the founder of the moneysaving website Brad’s Deals, tells Wilson’s personal story of how he became a deal machine, including amassing five million frequent-flyer miles […]
Rating: ☆☆☆1/2 Recommended by: Author: Stephen King Genre: Fiction, Crime, Thriller, Suspense 436 pages, published June 3, 2014 Reading Format: Audio Book Summary Mr. Mercedes, the first book in the Bill Hodges Trilogy by Stephen King, tells the story of a psychopathic serial killer nicknamed Mr. Mercedes after he intentionally plows through a crowd of […]
Rating: ☆☆☆ Recommended by: Author: David Brooks Genre: Non Fiction, Sociology 424 pages, published March 8, 2011 Reading Format: Audio Book Summary The Social Animal is the story of how people succeed in our society. It is told through the lives of Harold and Erica, a composite American couple, and follows how they grow, push […]
Rating: ☆☆☆ Recommended by: Author: Calvin Trillin Genre: Non-Fiction, Memoir 96 pages, published December 26, 2006 Reading Format: Audio Book Summary In this very short memoir about his late wife, Calvin Trillin paints a moving portrait of Alice. She was the wife who had “a weird predilection for limiting our family to three meals a […]
Rating: ☆☆☆1/2 Recommended by: Author: Atul Gawande Genre: Non-Fiction, Medicine, Health, Public Policy 282 pages, published October 7, 2014 Reading Format: Audio Book Summary In Being Mortal, Gawande, a practicing surgeon, tackles the difficult issue of how medicine can not only improve life but also death. While modern medicine has made amazing advances in the […]
Rating: ☆☆☆ Recommended by: Author: Nassim Taleb Genre: Non Fiction, Public Policy 521 pages, published November 27, 2012 Reading Format: Book Summary In Antifragile, Nassim Taleb, the bestselling author of The Black Swan, writes about how some systems actually benefit from disorder. Antifragile discusses how to gain from disorder and chaos while being protected from […]
Rating: ☆☆1/2 Recommended by: Kay Lynn Hartmann Author: Leif Enger Genre: Fiction 312 pages, published August 14, 2002 Reading Format: Audio Book Summary Peace Like a River takes its title from the lyrics of the hymn “It Is Well with My Soul.” Set in 1962, the book is narrated by Reuben Land, an asthmatic eleven-year-old, […]
Rating: ☆☆☆☆ Recommended by: Author: Phillipa Gregory Genre: Fiction, Historical Fiction 417 pages, published August 14, 2012 Reading Format: Audio Book Summary The Kingmaker’s Daughter tells the intriguing story of Anne Neville, her sister Isabel, and their manipulative and influential father, the Earl of Warwick, one of the most powerful men in England during the […]
Rating: ☆☆☆ Recommended by: Author: Mark Bittman Genre: 288 pages, published April 30, 2013 Reading Format: Book Summary Vegan Before Six or VB6 as it is referred to was written by food writer Mark Bittman after his doctor told him to adopt a vegan diet or go on medication. He didn’t want to do either, […]
Rating: ☆☆☆1/2 Recommended by: Author: Jonathan Dee Genre: Fiction 214 pages, published March 12, 2013 Reading Format: Book Summary A Thousand Pardons tells the story of the Armsteads, who were once a privileged and loving couple, but have now reached a breaking point. Ben, a partner in a prestigious law firm, has become unpredictable at […]