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November Book Review: Freakonomics, Character and Foodie Memoir

November 30, 2015 by Leanne Sowul Leave a Comment

Welcome to the November book review! At the end of each month, I review the books I’ve read. Enjoy! This month, I’m rolling over a few of the goodies from October, because I stumbled into a treasure trove of reading wealth in the early fall. Unfortunately, I did not have the same luck in November. At the end […]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: book review, character, freakonomics, memoir, nonfiction, self-improvement

Library Book Haul: Current Stack

November 13, 2015 by Leanne Sowul 1 Comment

I spent another glorious hour in the library last weekend; I’m starting to make it a monthly event. (I’d go even more often, but I bring home so many books each time that I’d probably get panic attacks over the amount of reading material.) Here’s what’s in my current stack: From bottom to top: Unfinished Business […]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: fiction, freakonomics, history, laura vanderkam, library, memoir, podcast, reading, work-life balance

We Need A New Word For Audiobook Listening

November 6, 2015 by Leanne Sowul 3 Comments

We need a new word, a single word, for this definition: listening to an audiobook. What do you say when you read a book… but it wasn’t with your eyes? Do you say you listened to it? Probably not, because that sounds slightly ridiculous: “I was listening to this book…” It conjures up an image of […]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: audiobook, imagination, narrator

October Book Review: Life, Death, Royalty and Persistence

October 30, 2015 by Leanne Sowul Leave a Comment

Welcome to the October book review! At the end of each month, I review the books I’ve read. Enjoy! (Disclaimer: I actually finished so many books in October that I’m going to shift some of them into next month’s review. Thank you to library and bookstore binges for supplying great reading material, and my new habit of going […]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: historical fiction, nonfiction, novel, romance, writing

Library Book Haul

October 7, 2015 by Leanne Sowul 4 Comments

As part of my “Fill it Up” mini-happiness project this past weekend, I spent a wonderful hour in the library. Spending time with books and quiet left me refreshed and creatively replenished, but there was one downside: I ended up with far too many books to add to my already toppling tower. Here was Saturday’s […]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: fiction, history, library, nonfiction, novel

September Book Review

September 29, 2015 by Leanne Sowul 2 Comments

Welcome to the monthly book review! At the end of each month, I review the books I’ve read. Enjoy! The Book: Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson The Category: Biography In Three Words: Giant Apple Ego. Biggest Takeaway: As many have said, this may be the most brutally honest biography ever published while the subject was still alive. Tears, tantrums, cold […]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: biography, book review, health, historical fiction, humor, science, sociology, women's fiction, WWII

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