Finished reading The Accidental Billionaires by Ben Mezrich. The Accidental Billionaires is about the founding of Facebook and centers on the founders Mark Zuckerberg’s and Eduardo Saverin’s friendship as Harvard undergrads. They each shared both academic brilliance in math and a geeky awkwardness with women. Eduardo struggles for acceptance and finds himself joining one [...]

Finished reading The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand, the author of Atlas Shrugged. The Fountainhead is about Howard Roark and his struggles as an architect. Roark combats a successful rival architect, Peter Keating, and a newspaper columnist, Ellsworth Toohey. In the Fountainhead Rand addresses several issues: individual strength, good versus evil, and the threat of [...]

Finished reading Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn. Camille Preaker, institutionalized as a teen for self-mutilation, now works for a second class Chicago newspaper. When a girl is murdered and another disappears in Camille’s hometown of Wind Gap, Missouri, her editor sends her there for a human-interest story. The police, including Richard Willis, a criminal [...]

Finished reading All Souls’ Night (Blood Ties, Book 4) by Jennifer Armintrout. Book four ends the Blood Ties series as Carrie and Nathan must stop the Soul Eater now that the Oracle is out of the way. The Soul Eater is still continuing his mission to become a god. Everything must be done with [...]

Finished reading Ashes to Ashes (Blood Ties, Book 3) by Jennifer Armintrout. Book three picks up the pace when the Voluntary Vampire Extinction Movement headquarters is destroyed during the Oracle’s escape from captivity. She’ll stop at nothing to turn the world into a vampire’s paradise, even if it means helping the Soul Eater become [...]

Finished reading Dark Places by Gillian Flynn. At age seven Libby Day’s mother and two older sisters were slaughtered in the family’s Kansas farmhouse, it was Libby’s testimony that sent her 15-year-old brother, Ben, to prison for life. Worried about money 24 years later, Libby reluctantly agrees to meet members of the Kill Club, [...]

Finished reading Citizen of the Galaxy by Robert Heinlein. In a distant galaxy where slavery is still alive and well young Thorby, just another orphaned boy, is sold at auction. But his new owner, Baslim, is not the disabled beggar he appears to be. Adopting Thorby as his son, Baslim fights relentlessly as an [...]

Finished reading Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games) by Suzanne Collins. Like the first book it takes place in Panem, the nation that exists where the U.S. used to be. Every year the Capitol holds a televised tournament in which two teen “tributes” from each of the surrounding districts fight a [...]