Rating: ☆☆☆1/2 Recommended by: Aileen and Grace Schwab Author: Erin Morgenstern Genre: Fiction, Fantasy Info: 516 pages, published September 13, 2011 Format: Book Summary The Night Circus is a surrealistic fairy tale set near Victorian London in a wandering magical circus that is open only from sunset to sunrise. Le Cirque des Rêves, the Circus […]
Rating: ☆☆☆☆ Recommended by: Author: Jonathan Franzen Genre: Fiction Info: 608 pages, published September 1, 2015 Format: Audio Book Summary Purity is the name of the book’s title character, who is also known as Pip. When we first meet Pip she is living in a crowded Oakland house under the burden of colossal college debt. […]
Rating: ☆☆☆☆1/2 Recommended by: Lisa Goldberg Author: Gretchen Rubin Genre: Non-Fiction, Self-Improvement, Happiness Info: 320 pages, published March 17, 2015 Format: Book Summary Creating positive habits is a key to leading a happy life. Habits “are the invisible architecture of daily life,” and “if we change our habits, we change our lives.” In Better than […]
Rating: ☆☆☆☆ Recommended by: Tina Hirshland Author: Kate Atkinson Genre: Fiction, Historical Fiction, World War II Info: 560 pages, published March 14, 2013 Format: Audio Book Summary Every time Ursula Todd dies, she is born again. Each successive life is an iteration on the last, and we see how Ursula’s choices affect her, those around her, and the […]