Rating: ☆☆1/2 Recommended by: Author: Pierce Brown Genre: Young Adult, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Dystopia 382 pages, published January 28, 2014 Reading Format: E-Book on Overdrive Summary The dystopian future world of Red Rising is a place where people are strictly segregated by class and color. Darrow is a Red, a member of the lowest and […]
Rating: ☆☆1/2 Recommended by: Author: Rhys Bowen Genre: Historical Fiction, Mystery 304 pages, published August 4, 2015 Reading Format: E-Book on Overdrive Summary Malice at the Palace follows the travails of Lady Georgiana Rannoch, a temporarily broke girl about London in the 1930’s who is thirty-fifth in line for the British throne. While her beloved […]
Rating: ☆☆☆1/2 Recommended by: Author: Stephen King Genre: Fiction, Thiller 283 pages, published June 4, 2013 Reading Format: Audio Book Summary Joyland takes place in 1973 at a North Carolina amusement park which was the site of a vicious murder of a young woman in the “Haunted House.” Devin Jones, a student at the University […]
Rating: ☆☆1/2 Recommended by: Author: Timothy Ferriss Genre: Non Fiction, Self Improvement 308 pages, published April 24, 2007 Reading Format: Book Summary In The 4 Hour Work Week, Tim Ferriss focuses on “lifestyle design” and repudiation of the traditional “deferred” life plan in which people work long hours and take few vacations for decades and […]
Rating: ☆☆☆1/2 Recommended by: Author: Charles Duhigg Genre: Non Fiction, Self Improvement 286 pages, published February 28, 2012 Reading Format: Audio Book Summary In The Power of Habit, New York Times business reporter Charles Duhigg explains why habits exist and how they can be changed by seeking to understanding human nature and its potential for […]
Rating: ☆☆☆☆ Recommended by: Christy DeMeyer Author: Frederik Backman Genre: Fiction 337 pages, published July 15, 2014 Reading Format: Audio Book Summary A Man Called Ove takes place in a small town in Sweden and tells the story of Ove, a 59 year old widower who is a cranky curmudgeon who spends his days patrolling […]
Rating: ☆☆☆ Recommended by: JL Collins Author: Christopher Buckley Genre: Fiction, Satire 336 pages, published April 2, 2007 Reading Format: Book Summary Outraged over the mounting Social Security debt, Cassandra Devine, a charismatic 29-year-old blogger and member of Generation Whatever, incites massive cultural warfare when she politely suggests that Baby Boomers be given government incentives […]
Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆ Recommended by: Author: Paul Kalanithi Genre: Non Fiction, Memoir 208 pages, published January 19, 2016 Reading Format: Audio Book Summary At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade’s worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. One day he was a doctor […]
Rating: ☆☆☆1/2 Recommended by: Author: Shonda Rhimes Genre: Non-Fiction, Memoir, Self-Improvement 336 pages, published November 10, 2015 Reading Format: Audio Book Summary On Thanksgiving Day, 2013, Shonda Rhymes, the uber-talented and successful creator of Grey’s Anatomy, Scandal, How to Get Away With Murder, told her sister about some amazing invitations that she had received. Her […]
Rating: ☆☆☆☆ Recommended by: Katy Fassett Author: Anthony Marra Genre: Fiction, Anthology, Foreign 332 pages, published October 6, 2015 Reading Format: Book Summary This fascinating and very well written collection of stories set in the USSR and modern day Russia contains a cast of remarkable characters whose lives intersect in ways both life-affirming and heartbreaking. […]