Books

I want so much more! Roadside Picnic is a collection of stories, they contain the same characters, but they happen at different times, sometimes decades apart. They are great stories, great beginnings of larger stories… I would love to read a much longer story about Red Schuhart, he is such a great character and his story in this universe is so appealing to me. Robert Forster does a great job narrating the audiobook. ...

Man-o-man, I like me some Bill Bryson. I think I would buy audio recordings of his compilations of the nightly news… Oh wait, I think I just did. “One Summer” really does feel like a compilation of newspaper articles from around 1927 sprinkled with insights and ideas that only come from hindsight. I enjoyed this book more than At Home, but less than A Short History of Nearly Everything. ...

This is book 3 of the Gentleman Bastard Sequence books featuring the exploits of Locke and Jean. I really enjoyed the first 2 books, The Lies of Locke Lamora and Red Seas Under Red Skies, and have been looking forward to the next in the series. In this adventure we learn more about Locke and Sabetha’s history, I really enjoyed that part, for me it deepened Locke’s character and gave insight into his motivations and desires. But the Sabetha character felt kind of flat to me, like she was not as well thought out, or maybe that she was a very simple character when I was hoping for a complex character with a lot of depth and complex reasons for her beliefs and actions. In the dialog Sabetha spends a lot of time talking about being complex, but in action she comes across as being very simple and flat. ...

I believe that critical thinking is going to be the most important skill my son will ever have. The ability to think for himself and make good decisions quickly based upon what he knows while being able to change his decisions based upon new information when it is available. [Your Deceptive Mind](http://www.audible.com/pd/Science-Technology/Your-Deceptive-Mind-A-Scientific-Guide-to-Critical-Thinking-Skills-Audiobook/B00D9473WC" title=“Your Deceptive Mind at Audible) is a part of [The Great Courses: Professional](http://www.audible.com/series/ref=a_pd_Scienc_c2__sa?asin=B00DNBDOUG" title=“The Great Courses: Professional Series at Audible) series and is made up of 24 lectures given by Professor Steven Novella. ...

[Griffin’s Story](http://www.audible.com/pd/Teens/Jumper-Audiobook/B002V0K9JE/ref=sa_4" title=“Jumper: Griffin’s Story at Audible) is NOT the fourth book in the [Jumper series](http://www.audible.com/series/ref=ml_1_8?asin=B0080JL0NO" title=“The Jumper Series at Audible), nor is it the novelization of the movie, it is a stand-alone story that takes place in the Jumper universe. To be correct it takes place in the Jumper universe as portrayed by the movie and not the one by the 3 books in the series with Davy. ...

[Impulse](http://www.audible.com/pd/Sci-Fi-Fantasy/Impulse-Audiobook/B00AZ60ATU/ref=sa_3" title=“Impulse at Audible) is the third book in the [Jumper series](http://www.audible.com/series/ref=ml_1_8?asin=B0080JL0NO" title=“The Jumper Series at Audible) and continues 10 years after Reflex ends. Davy and Millie have a teenage daughter named Cent who desperately wants to go to a “normal” high school and be around people her own age. She is around the same age Davy was when he first discovered his abilities and fears for his daughter’s safety, and with everything that happened in the Reflex story, who could blame him. ...

[Reflex](http://www.audible.com/pd/Sci-Fi-Fantasy/Reflex-Audiobook/B0057YHU0M/ref=sa_2" title=“Reflex at Audible) is the second book in the [Jumper series](http://www.audible.com/series/ref=ml_1_8?asin=B0080JL0NO" title=“The Jumper Series at Audible) by Steven Gould. This story has a split focus. One half of the story follows Davy and what he goes through while held captive by the mysterious bad guys and the other half follows his wife Millie and her… Whoops, almost let some major spoilers go there. This story is as good if not better than the first one. We get to dive more into who Davy has chosen to be as a person and get to know Millie a lot better. A very nice read indeed. ...

I enjoyed the [movie Jumper](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0489099/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1" title=“Jumper at IMDB) when it came out in 2008, but man did it have some HUGE plot holes. So when I ran out fiction books in my Audible wish list I decided to check the Jumper books out. [Jumper](http://www.audible.com/pd/Sci-Fi-Fantasy/Jumper-Audiobook/B0058J2F42/ref=sa_1" title=“Jumper at Audible) is the [first book in a series](http://www.audible.com/series/ref=ml_1_8?asin=B0080JL0NO" title=“Jumper Series at Audible) of 3 by Steven Gould. The story in the movie is similar to the story in the series of books, but is not the same story. ...

I received this hardcover book from Zappos while on the Zappos Insights Tour. Outliers has been on my reading list for a long time and I am really glad that I finally got around to reading it. There are a lot of great insights in this book and I feel like I learned a lot. My plans for my child’s education have changed significantly because of this book. The information about the differences in learning among children that are taught year-round versus children that take a long summer break makes a lot of sense to me and I now plan on teaching our child year-round. ...

I bought this audiobook from Audible and listened to it using the Audible app on my iPhone. I was looking for something non-fiction and stumbled upon The Great Courses on Audible. After browsing around a bit I found The Great Courses: Ancient History which led to “The Other Side of History.” I was intrigued by the idea of learning about the lives of everyday people in medieval times. ...