Missmath144 Female, Married. USA

Loved it the first time. Read the updated version in 2007, and it was still rang true. It seemed to drag a bit towards the end of the updated version, but was still very enjoyable. This is a book any restaurant worker can identify.

Excellent! This is a short history of major scientific discoveries through the ages. --- I love listening to this when I fall asleep. On the re-reads (re-listens actually), I don't catch everything because I fall asleep at some point. But I can start wherever I end and not feel lost since it really is a series of reports on scientific topics and one doesn't depend on the previous one (especially since I have listened to it several times now). ... (continue)

I really enjoyed this book. Reading this book was when I realized that I love biographies because they fill you in on how a person learned to become the person he finally was. In other words, any biography is really about the education of that person.

This is the fourth in Paulsen's Brian series. In Hatchet, Brian was lost in the Canadian wilderness and had to learn to survive. In this book, he returns to the wilderness to find himself. I love the way Paulsen describes in detail everything Brian has to do. Paulsen has lived most of what Brian goes through, so he really knows his stuff. ... (continue)

This delightful home schooled girl, who calls herself Stargirl, writes a letter that will never be sent to the boy who dumped her and who now lives in another state. I particularly enjoyed her Calendar Hill project, where she created her own winter solstice calendar by planting spatulas in the ground every Thursday morning at sunrise to create an arc that traced the sun's movement. ... (continue)

Mildred Taylor creates a fictional story out of the true stories told to her by her family. The reader (or in this case, the listener) cannot help but identify with the main characters. You want to hit out at inequities, but you know that if you do, things will be worse.

I like Dick Hill's reading, so that added to the pleasure.

Excellent book for older kids or young adults.

Third volume of the Uglies trilogy (which eventually became 4 volumes). I'm not certain why, but my interest waned as I read this one. It does pull things together, however. You see that the new societies arose to remedy the mistakes man had made, and that by freeing their minds, the same mistakes might be made again. But better to be free to make mistakes than to live as conditioned beings. ... (continue)

Very enjoyable, but I plan to go back to listenging to the Lee Child books on CD. Dick Hill reads them so well that I would actually rather listen to than read them.