A Gentleman in Moscow (2016) by Amor Towles Genre: Fiction – Historical Pages: 462 Summary: Amor Towles’s novel A Gentleman in Moscow chronicles the life of the Count Alexander Ilyich Rostov. Due to unsavory writings that dissatisfied the Russian government in the early 1900s, Count Rostov is sullied away on house arrest at the Hotel…
The Soul of America (2018) by Jon Meacham Genre: Nonfiction – Politics/History Pages: 400 Summary: Jon Meacham takes the reader through America’s historical contradictions. The Soul of America looks critically at events panning from the Civil War to the Civil Rights Movement, examining the events through the lens of pragmatic optimism. Meacham continuously acknowledges America’s…
The Ancient Hours (2020) by Michael Bible Genre: Fiction Pages: 102 Content warning: violence, domestic violence, drug addiction, sexual assault, discrimination, mass violence. Summary: At 102 pages, The Ancient Hours is a short but powerful tale. Harmony, North Carolina experienced a tragedy. This tragedy haunts the town, the people who lived there then and experienced…
The End of Everything – Astrophysically Speaking (2020) by Katie Mack Genre: Nonfiction – Science Pages: 226 Summary: Sometimes when I’m half awake in bed or when I’m zoning out driving, I start to ponder the universe. The thought process usually starts with the question, how did the Earth come to be? The Big Bang…
The Splendid and the Vile by Erik Larson (2020) – Nonfiction 5/5 There have been hundreds of books and movies about Winston Churchill. The bulldog, the leader, the boss, the fighter. He was everything a leader needed to be and was a leader when the world needed him to be one. The Splendid and the…
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