Title: Julie and Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously by Julie Powell Summary / Synopsis: Nearing thirty and trapped in a dead-end secretarial job, Julie Powell decides to reclaim her life through cooking all the recipes in …
We are in 2021, which started with serious 2020 vibes, but has been looking up since January 20th. While trying to survive this panorama and watching America’s homegrown terrorists storm the Capitol building, I was …
Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell Summary: During the 1986 school year, star-crossed misfits Eleanor and Park know that first love almost never lasts, but they are brave and desperate enough to give love a …
Coraline by Neil Gaiman Summary: Coraline lives with her preoccupied parents in part of a huge old house. Within the house, there is a door special door that opens into an alternate universe that has everything …
Alexander the Great: Student of Aristotle, Descendant of Heroes by in60Learning Summary: Long before historians added “the Great” to his name, Alexander stated, “I’d rather live a short life of glory than a long one of …
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden Summary: At the age of nine, Chiyo Sakamoto is taken from her home and sold to an okiya in Gion, Kyoto’s most prominent geisha district. She enters a world …
Swing Time by Zadie Smith Summary: Two brown girls dream of being dancers, but only Tracey has talent. It’s a close but complicated childhood friendship that ends abruptly in their early twenties, never to be revisited, …
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle Summary: On a dark and stormy night, Meg Murry, her younger brother Charles Wallace, and their mother receive an unexpected visit by a disturbing stranger. Meg’s father mysteriously disappeared …
The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America’s Wealthy by Thomas J. Stanley and William D. Danko Summary: In the United States, most wealthy individuals don’t live in Beverly Hills or on Park Avenue. They live next …
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak Summary: It’s just a small story really, about among other things: a girl, some words, an accordionist, some fanatical Germans, a Jewish fist-fighter, and quite a lot of thievery. Set …
