Entries by Anne-Marie Reader

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565. How to Stop Time

Rating:  ☆☆☆☆ Recommended by: Author:    Matt Haig Genre:   Fiction, Historical Fiction, Romance, Science Fiction, Fantasy 352 pages, published June 11, 2019 Reading Format:   Audiobook on Overdrive Summary Tom Hazard has a extremely rare medical condition that does not allow him to age like the rest of us.  While he looks 41 years old, he was […]

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564. The $64 Tomato

Rating:  ☆☆☆1/2 Recommended by:  Frank and Lisanne Author:    William Alexander Genre:   Non Fiction, Humor, Memoir, Environment, Food, Nature 304 pages, published March 2, 2007 Reading Format:   Book Summary Bill Alexander writes about his struggles to create an ideal garden on the acreage that comes with a house he and his wife buy in the Hudson […]

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562. The Final Solution

Rating:  ☆☆ Recommended by: Author:   Michael Chabon Genre:   Fiction, Mystery, Crime, Historical Fiction 131 pages, published November 2005 Reading Format:   Book Summary After finishing this hard to follow book, I’m not really sure what it is about.  The characters include Linus Steinman, nine years old and mute, who has escaped from Nazi Germany with his […]

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561. Die with Zero: Getting All You Can from Your Money and Your Life

Rating:  ☆☆☆☆ Recommended by: Author:   Bill Perkins Genre:   Non Fiction, Personal Finance, Happiness, Self Improvement, Business, Psychology, Economics 240 pages, published July 28, 2020 Reading Format:   Book Summary The premise of Die with Zero is that too many people save all of their lives for their retirement and that by the time they retire they […]

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560. Red Island House

Rating:  ☆☆1/2 Recommended by: Author:   Andrea Lee Genre:   Fiction, Foreign, Race 288 pages, published March 23, 2021 Reading Format:  Audiobook on Overdrive Summary Red Island House tells the story of Shay, an African American Literature Professor from Berkley, and her older, Italian husband Senna.  Senna builds Shay an idyllic beach house on the island of […]

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559. One by One

Rating:  ☆☆☆☆ Recommended by: Author:   Ruth Ware Genre:   Fiction, Suspense, Thriller, Crime, Mystery, Foreign 372 pages, published September 8, 2020 Reading Format:   Audio Book Summary Getting snowed in at a mountain chalet in the Swiss Alps is just the beginning of the problems facing the membes of the tech company Snoops who are there for […]

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558. The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

Rating:  ☆☆☆☆ Recommended by: Author:    V.E. Schwab Genre:   Fiction, Romance, Fantasy 442 pages, published October 6, 2020 Reading Format:   Audiobook on Overdrive Summary The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue tells the story of Addie LaRue, a French woman who makes a deal with the devil in 1714 to avoid an unwanted arranged marriage.  She strikes […]

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557. One Good Turn

Rating:  ☆☆1/2 Recommended by: Author:   Kate Atkinson Genre:   Fiction, Mystery, Thriller, Foreign, Crime 418 pages, published September 10, 2007 Reading Format:   Audiobook on Overdrive Summary One Good Turn takes place during the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland when a near-homicidal attack occurs which changes the lives of everyone involved. Jackson Brodie, ex-army, ex-police, ex-private detective, […]

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556. Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story

Rating:  ☆☆☆1/2 Recommended by:  Pat Walsh Author:   Martin Luther King, Jr. Genre:   Non Fiction, Race, History Summary Stride Toward Freedom tells the story of the Montgomery, Alabama bus boycott in 1955 led by Martin Luther King, Jr. that changed the trajectory of the civil rights movement.  Written by Dr. King, it includes his letters, speeches […]

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555. Seeing Further: Ideas, Endeavours, Discoveries and Disputes — The Story of Science Through 350 Years of the Royal Society

Rating:  ☆☆☆ Recommended by:  Art Drake Author:    Bill Bryson (Editor, Introduction), James Gleick (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Henry Petroski (Contributor), Georgina Ferrey (Contributor), Steve Jones (Contributor), Philip Ball (Contributor), Paul C.W. Davies (Contributor), Ian Stewart (Contributor), John D. Barrow (Contributor), Oliver Morton (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Maggie Gee (Contributor), Stephen H. Schneider (Contributor), Margaret Atwood (Goodreads Author) […]