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 […]
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August Book Review
Welcome to the August book review! At the end of each month, I review the books I’ve read. Enjoy! The Book: All The Bright Places by Jennifer Niven The Category: YA In Three Words: Bi-Polar teen suicide. Biggest Takeaway: I semi-enjoyed this book at first; the main characters were engaging and I liked the road trips they took while trying […]
September Book Round-Up
Now that I have 40-60 minutes of commuting every workday, I’m getting through more audiobooks. I have a different set of criteria for books I listen to, compared to the ones I read. They can’t be anything too heavy, requiring intense focus: that leaves out anything literary or biographical. I usually stick to lighter women’s […]
REVIEW of Summer Reading List 2013
At the beginning of summer, I posted a list of titles I hoped to read this season: Summer Reading List 2013. I didn’t read all the books on the list, but I did get to several. Here are my brief synopses and a review of each:
Rowling Update & Recent Reads
I thought the NY Times reviewed The Casual Vacancy by J.K. Rowling very well here: NY Times Review- The Casual Vacancy The reviewer saw more of the “societal ills” aspect to the book than I did, and after seeing Rowling do a few interviews on the subject, it was clear that for her, addressing those themes […]