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001:
001:AUTHOR=Kristin Hannah
001:END=2019-12-15
001:MEDIA=cloudLibrary
001:NOTE=2019-12-15|https://share.libbyapp.com/title/3243036
001:RATE=5
001:START=2019-12-06
001:TITLE=The Great Alone
002:
002:AUTHOR=Elizabeth Berg
002:MEDIA=Audio
002:RATE=4
002:START=2019
002:END=2019
002:TITLE=The Story of Arther Truluv
003:
003:AUTHOR=Richard Joyce
003:END=2020-01-10
003:MEDIA=cloudLibrary
003:NOTE=2020-01-10|
003:RATE=5
003:START=2019-12-28
003:TITLE=The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
004:
004:AUTHOR=Catharine Ingelman-Sundberg
004:AUTHOR=Rod Bradbury (Translator)
004:MEDIA=
004:NOTE=?|
004:RATE=4
004:START=2019
004:END=2019
004:TITLE=The little Old Lady Who Broke All the Rules
005:
005:AUTHOR=Fredrik Backman, Henning Koch (Translator)
005:MEDIA=Audio
005:NOTE=?|2022-08-14 Watched the movie on Amazon prime
005:RATE=4
005:START=2019
005:END=2019
005:TITLE=A Man Called Ove
006:
006:AUTHOR=Anne Tyler
006:END=2020-01-09
006:MEDIA=
006:NOTE=2020-01-09|
006:RATE=4
006:START=2020-01-04
006:TITLE=Noah’s Compass
007:
007:AUTHOR=Jodi Picoult
007:END=2020-01-17
007:MEDIA=cloudLibrary
007:NOTE=2020-01-17|
007:RATE=5
007:START=2020-01-10
007:TITLE=Small Great Things
008:
008:AUTHOR=Robert Sapolsky
008:END=2020-02-06
008:MEDIA=
008:NOTE=2020-02-06|Explains in detail how the biology of the human body affects how we behave.
008:RATE=5
008:START=2020-01-18
008:TITLE=Behave
009:
009:AUTHOR=Mitch Albom
009:END=2020-02-09
009:MEDIA=cloudLibrary Audio
009:NOTE=2020-02-09|
009:RATE=4
009:START=2020-02-07
009:TITLE=Tuesdays with Morrie
010:
010:AUTHOR=Amor Towles
010:END=2020-02-27
010:MEDIA=
010:NOTE=2020-02-27|Excellent story combines personal character, social life, and political environment.
010:RATE=5
010:START=2020-02-17
010:TITLE=A Gentleman in Moscow
011:
011:AUTHOR=Anthony Doerr
011:MEDIA=
011:NOTE=2020-03-01|It is not easy to read, convoluted, and strange vocabulary.
011:START=2020-02-28
011:STOP=2020-03-01
011:TITLE=All The Light we Cannot See: A Novel
012:
012:AUTHOR=Robert W. Fuller
012:END=2020-03-14
012:MEDIA=Apple Books
012:NOTE=2020-03-05|I don't like the story line. Stopped at the start of Chapter 7. 
012:NOTE=2020-03-05|Read through Chapter 6
012:NOTE=2020-03-10|Read from Chapter 7
012:NOTE=2020-03-14|Turned to be political fiction about dignity for all. Read about the author.
012:RATE=5
012:START=2020-03-02
012:RESUME=2020-03-10
012:STOP=2020-03-05
012:TITLE=The Rowan Tree 
014:
014:AUTHOR=Amor Towles
014:END=2020-03-10
014:MEDIA=cloudLibrary
014:NOTE=2020-03-10|
014:RATE=5
014:START=2020-03-05
014:TITLE=Rules of civility
015:
015:AUTHOR=Robert W. Fuller
015:END=2020-03-21
015:MEDIA=Apple Books
015:NOTE=2020-03-21|Children book about being different
015:RATE=5
015:START=2020-03-21
015:TITLE=Theo, The White Squirrel
016:
016:AUTHOR=Multiple
016:MEDIA=
016:NOTE=2020-03-23|
016:START=2020-03-21
016:STOP=2020-03-23
016:TITLE=It Occurs to Me That I Am American
017:
017:AUTHOR=Robert W. Fuller
017:END=2020-04-01
017:MEDIA=Apple Books
017:NOTE=2020-04-01|Interesting approach to defining the human
017:RATE=4
017:START=2020-03-31
017:TITLE=Genomes, Menomes, Wenomes: Neuroscience and Human Dignity
018:
018:AUTHOR=Robert W. Fuller
018:END=2020-04-02
018:MEDIA=Apple Books
018:NOTE=2020-04-02|
018:RATE=3
018:START=2020-04-02
018:TITLE=Questions & Quests
019:
019:AUTHOR=Robert W. Fuller
019:END=2020-04-11
019:MEDIA=Apple Books
019:NOTE=2020-04-11|
019:RATE=3
019:START=2020-04-03
019:TITLE=Religion and Science
020:
020:AUTHOR=Naoki Higashida
020:END=2020-04-29
020:MEDIA=SC Library-Kindle
020:NOTE=2020-04-29|Written by autistic teenager
020:RATE=3
020:START=2020-04-11
020:TITLE=The reason I jump
021:
021:AUTHOR=Lydia Denworth
021:MEDIA=SC Library-Kindle
021:TITLE=Friendship
022:
022:AUTHOR=Lisa zinger
022:MEDIA=Libby - Audio
022:START=2020-10-27
022:TITLE=Confessions on the 7:45
023:
023:AUTHOR=Veronica Roth
023:END=2020-12-10
023:MEDIA=Kindle Prime
023:NOTE=2020-12-10|Escaping asteroid on spaceship. 
023:RATE=3
023:START=2020-12-07
023:TITLE=Ark (forward collection)
024:
024:AUTHOR=Blake Crouch
024:END=2020-12-17
024:MEDIA=Kindle Prime
024:NOTE=2020-12-17|A view of reality
024:RATE=4
024:START=2020-12-10
024:TITLE=Summer Frost (forward collection)
025:
025:AUTHOR=N. K. Jemisin
025:END=2020-12-26
025:MEDIA=Kindle Prime
025:NOTE=2020-12-26|The Earl improved when the selfish people escaped to another planet
025:RATE=4.5
025:START=2020-12-25
025:TITLE=Emergency Skin (forward collection)
026:
026:AUTHOR=Amor Towles
026:END=2021-01-01
026:MEDIA=Kindle Prime
026:NOTE=2021-01-01|Predicting the life of your offsprings. 
026:RATE=4.5
026:START=2020-12-31
026:TITLE=You Have Arrived at Your Destination (forward collection)
027:
027:AUTHOR=Paul Tremblay
027:END=2021-01-13
027:MEDIA=Kindle Prime
027:NOTE=2021-01-13|Cloning
027:RATE=3.5
027:START=2021-01-09
027:TITLE=The Last Conversation (forward collection)
028:
028:AUTHOR=Andy Weir
028:END=2021-01-14
028:MEDIA=Kindle Prime
028:NOTE=2021-01-14|Using quantum computers for generating random numbers for gambling machines in Vegas.
028:RATE=4.5
028:START=2021-01-14
028:TITLE=Randomize (forward collection)
029:
029:AUTHOR=Yuval Noah Harari
029:END=2021-02-03
029:MEDIA=SC Library-Kindle
029:NOTE=2021-02-03|Easy to read. Technology domination in the future. 
029:RATE=5
029:START=2021-01-15
029:TITLE=Homo Deus
030:
030:AUTHOR=Lazuo Ishiguro
030:END=2021-02-08
030:MEDIA=SC Library-Kindle
030:NOTE=2021-02-08|Cloned babies to be used as doners of body parts. 
030:RATE=5
030:START=2021-02-04
030:TITLE=Never Let Me Go
031:
031:AUTHOR=Brian Freeman
031:END=2021-02-10
031:MEDIA=Kindle Prime
031:NOTE=2021-02-10|While in coma, he saw many versions of his life in parallel universes. 
031:RATE=4
031:START=2021-02-08
031:TITLE=Infinite
032:
032:AUTHOR=Lori Gottlieb
032:END=2021-03-01
032:MEDIA=Libby
032:NOTE=2021-03-01|Many stories about therapists and their patients. 
032:RATE=4.5
032:START=2021-02-11
032:TITLE=May Be You Should Talk To Someone
033:
033:AUTHOR=Mortaada Gzar
033:MEDIA=Kindle Prime
033:NOTE=2021-03-06|Low life
033:START=2021-03-03
033:STOP=2021-03-06
033:TITLE=I’m in Seattle, Where are you?
034:
034:AUTHOR=James Gleick
034:MEDIA=Libby
034:NOTE=2021-03-11|Too much science
034:START=2021-03-10
034:STOP=2021-03-11
034:TITLE=Chaos
035:
035:AUTHOR=Kazuo Ishiguro
035:END=2021-03-27
035:MEDIA=Libby
035:NOTE=2021-03-27|A Butler’s life
035:RATE=5
035:START=2021-03-13
035:TITLE=The Remains of the Day
036:
036:AUTHOR=Lisa Feldman Barrett, PhD
036:END=2021-04-19
036:MEDIA=Libby
036:NOTE=2021-04-19|Informative about brain function. Advocating new theory. 
036:RATE=5
036:START=2021-04-01
036:TITLE=How Emotions Are Made
037:
037:AUTHOR=Frederick Backman
037:END=2021-04-28
037:MEDIA=Libby
037:NOTE=2021-04-28|Importance of human relations to make life better for everyone.
037:RATE=3.5
037:START=2021-04-22
037:TITLE=Anxious people
038:
038:AUTHOR=V. E. Schwab
038:END=2021-05-19
038:MEDIA=Libby
038:NOTE=2021-05-19|A girl who made a deal with the devil
038:RATE=4.6
038:START=2021-05-01
038:TITLE=The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
039:
039:AUTHOR=Anne Helen Petersen
039:MEDIA=Libby
039:NOTE=2021-05-21|The author is whining about Life. 
039:START=2021-05-20
039:STOP=2021-05-21
039:TITLE=Can’t Even
040:
040:AUTHOR=Toshikazo Kawaguchi
040:END=2021-06-10
040:MEDIA=Libby
040:NOTE=2021-06-10|Knowing about the past or the future helps going through the present. 
040:RATE=4.5
040:START=2021-05-24
040:TITLE=Before The Coffee Gets Cold
041:
041:AUTHOR=Alison Gopnik
041:END=2021-07-05
041:MEDIA=Libby
041:NOTE=2021-07-05|Excellent
041:RATE=4.9
041:START=2021-06-17
041:TITLE=The Gardener and the Carpenters
042:
042:AUTHOR=Yuval Noah Harari
042:END=2021-07-30
042:MEDIA=Libby
042:NOTE=2021-07-30|History from zero time through the future. 
042:RATE=5
042:START=2021-07-10
042:TITLE=Sapien
043:
043:AUTHOR=Adam Grant
043:END=2021-08-17
043:MEDIA=Libby
043:NOTE=2021-08-17|More useful for professionals but applicable to life in general. 
043:RATE=4.5
043:START=2021-08-04
043:TITLE=Think Again
044:
044:AUTHOR=Beale Donald Walachia
044:MEDIA=Libby audio
044:NOTE=2021-08-22|I didn’t find anything new or interesting
044:START=2021-08-21
044:STOP=2021-08-22
044:TITLE=Conversation with God
045:
045:AUTHOR=Brit Bennett
045:END=2021-10-25
045:MEDIA=Libby
045:NOTE=2021-10-25|Two black twin sisters with white skin separated to live black and white lives. 
045:RATE=4
045:START=2021-10-11
045:TITLE=The vanishing half
046:
046:AUTHOR=Lois Lowry
046:END=2021-11-10
046:MEDIA=Libby
046:NOTE=2021-11-10|A boy living in a fully controlled community rebels to return the community to natural lifestyle. 
046:RATE=4.5
046:START=2021-11-03
046:TITLE=The Giver
047:
047:AUTHOR=Ann Garvin
047:MEDIA=Kindle Prime
047:NOTE=2021-11-15|A woman telling her daily activities that I didn’t feel interested in knowing. 
047:START=2021-11-12
047:STOP=2021-11-15
047:TITLE=I thought you said this would work
048:
048:AUTHOR=Mitch Albom
048:END=2021-12-01
048:MEDIA=Libby
048:NOTE=2021-12-01|About faith in God. Good language,  story telling, facing hard times.   
048:RATE=4.8
048:START=2021-11-24
048:TITLE=The stranger in the life boat
049:
049:AUTHOR=Anil Seth
049:END=2021-12-22
049:MEDIA=Libby
049:NOTE=2021-12-22|Dissolving the concessions hard problem rather than solving it. The book did not explain conciseness but explored around it.    
049:RATE=4.9
049:START=2021-12-06
049:TITLE=Being You
050:
050:AUTHOR=R. J. Palacio
050:MEDIA=Libby
050:NOTE=|I’m sure I read this story before but didn’t record it in this list. I searched all the apps I used before but didn’t find the book. H and Mo said that I told them about it long time ago.   
050:TITLE=Wonder
051:
051:AUTHOR=Roger Angela
051:MEDIA=Libby
051:NOTE=2021-12-27|This book may be good for those who like sports and the author who was a sport writer. 
051:START=2021-12-26
051:STOP=2021-12-27
051:TITLE=This old man
052:
052:AUTHOR=Amor Towles
052:END=2022-01-07
052:MEDIA=Libby
052:NOTE=2022-01-07|The conduct of young people affected by their childhood is demonstrated vividly in two weeks of the life of four young boys and a girl.
052:RATE=4.8
052:START=2021-12-28
052:TITLE=The Lincoln Highway
053:
053:AUTHOR=Ted Chiang
053:END=2022-01-19
053:MEDIA=Libby
053:NOTE=2022-01-19|A number of shorter science fiction stories. 
053:RATE=4.6
053:START=2022-01-10
053:TITLE=Stories Of Your Life And Others
054:
054:AUTHOR=Ted Chiang
054:END=2022-02-06
054:MEDIA=Libby
054:RATE=4.8
054:START=2022-01-22
054:TITLE=Exhalation
055:
055:AUTHOR=Daniel Huttenlocher
055:AUTHOR=Eric Schmidt
055:AUTHOR=Henry Kissinger
055:END=2022-02-17
055:MEDIA=Libby audio
055:NOTE=2022-02-17|A call for action with foundation for discussion. 
055:RATE=5
055:START=2022-02-11
055:TITLE=The Age Of A.I. And Our Human Future
056:
056:AUTHOR=Kazuo Ishiguro
056:END=2022-02-27
056:MEDIA=Libby
056:NOTE=2022-02-27|The novel explores the relationships and interactions between artificial friends and humans. The author illustrates how artificial beings can think and behave in ways reminiscent of early human development. This book is an engaging read for all ages.
056:RATE=4.8
056:START=2022-02-19
056:TITLE=Klara and The Sun
057:
057:AUTHOR=Annie Murphy Paul
057:END=2022-03-22
057:MEDIA=Libby
057:NOTE=2022-03-22|9 principals to extend one’s mind. 
057:RATE=4.9
057:START=2022-03-09
057:TITLE=The Extended Mind
058:
058:AUTHOR=Daniel Kahneman
058:END=2022-04-12
058:MEDIA=Libby
058:NOTE=2022-04-12|Analysis of how the brain makes choices automatically. 
058:RATE=4.9
058:START=2022-03-28
058:TITLE=Thinking, Fast and Slow
059:
059:AUTHOR=Julie otsuka
059:END=2022-04-20
059:MEDIA=Libby audio
059:NOTE=2022-04-20|Details about a woman with frontal temporal dementia. 
059:RATE=5
059:START=2022-04-16
059:TITLE=The Swimmers
060:
060:AUTHOR=Johnathan Reisman, MD
060:END=2022-05-06
060:MEDIA=Libby
060:NOTE=2022-05-06|Explaining body functions through stories from his professional and personal life. 
060:RATE=5
060:START=2022-04-27
060:TITLE=The Unseen Body
061:
061:AUTHOR=Emily St. John Mandel
061:END=2022-05-16
061:MEDIA=Libby audio
061:NOTE=2022-05-16|A pandemic killed 99.99% off people. A contrast between before and after the civilization collapsed. 
061:RATE=4.5
061:START=2022-05-09
061:TITLE=Station 11
062:
062:AUTHOR=Ira Rutkow
062:END=2022-06-03
062:MEDIA=Libby
062:NOTE=2022-06-03|I appreciated the progress of surgery and how we are fortunate to live at these times. 
062:RATE=4.8
062:START=2022-05-20
062:TITLE=Empire of the Scalpel
063:
063:AUTHOR=Franc Bruni
063:END=2022-06-09
063:MEDIA=Libby audio
063:NOTE=2022-06-09|Navigating around and compensating for loss of ability. Many examples of real people including the author who lost sight of one eye. 
063:RATE=4.7
063:START=2022-06-04
063:TITLE=The Beauty of Dusk
064:
064:AUTHOR=Daniel H. Pink
064:END=2022-06-14
064:MEDIA=Libby audio
064:NOTE=2022-06-14|How to improve the future using past regrets. Four categories of regret: Foundation, Boldness, Moral, and connections. Anticipating regret helps in decision making.    
064:RATE=4.5
064:START=2022-06-10
064:TITLE=The Power of Regret
065:
065:AUTHOR=Bessel van der Kolk, M.D.
065:END=2022-06-27
065:MEDIA=Libby audio
065:NOTE=2022-06-27|Causes, symptoms, treatment, and prevention of trauma. 
065:RATE=5
065:START=2022-06-16
065:TITLE=The Body Keeps the Score
066:
066:AUTHOR=Tara Westover
066:END=2022-07-05
066:MEDIA=Libby audio
066:NOTE=2022-07-05|This autobiography recounts the author’s struggle to break free from her family’s rigid way of life. Raised by a fanatical survivalist Mormon father and a submissive mother, she defied expectations and pursued education, ultimately earning a Ph.D. from Cambridge.  
066:RATE=5
066:START=2022-06-29
066:TITLE=Educated
067:
067:AUTHOR=Colleen Hover
067:MEDIA=Libby audio
067:NOTE=2022-07-08|Listened to 5 chapters. The book is about people in their 20s. Their life is far from mine. I didn’t find any depth in the story. 
067:START=2022-07-08
067:STOP=2022-07-08
067:TITLE=Ugly Love
068:
068:AUTHOR=Stephen Perrine
068:MEDIA=Libby
068:NOTE=2022-07-10|Another book about diet. I’m not interested. 
068:START=2022-07-09
068:STOP=2022-07-10
068:TITLE=Whole Body Reset
069:
069:AUTHOR=Emily Henry
069:MEDIA=Libby audio
069:NOTE=2022-07-11|I’m not interested in young people’s love stories. 
069:START=2022-07-11
069:STOP=2022-07-11
069:TITLE=People We Meet on Vacation
070:
070:AUTHOR=Thomas Insel, MD
070:END=2022-08-13
070:MEDIA=Libby
070:NOTE=2022-08-13|Good coverage of how we deal with mental health.
070:RATE=4.5
070:START=2022-07-29
070:TITLE=Healing
071:
071:AUTHOR=Jennifer Palmieri
071:END=2022-08-26
071:MEDIA=Libby audio
071:NOTE=2022-08-26|Teaching how to succeed irrespective of their traditional image. 
071:RATE=4.2
071:START=2022-08-16
071:TITLE=Dear Madam President
072:
072:AUTHOR=William Pen Dubois
072:END=2022-08-19
072:MEDIA=Libby
072:NOTE=2022-08-19|Well written, discusses interesting philosophies of life.
072:RATE=4.9
072:START=2022-08-17
072:TITLE=The 21 Balloons
073:
073:AUTHOR=Henry Kissinger
073:END=2022-09-06
073:MEDIA=Libby audio
073:NOTE=2022-09-06|Analysis of six 20th century world leaders’ achievements and style. 19 audio hours. 
073:RATE=4.9
073:START=2022-08-18
073:TITLE=Leadership
074:
074:AUTHOR=Seth Stephen-Davidowitz
074:END=2022-09-28
074:MEDIA=Libby audio
074:NOTE=2022-09-28|Studying people’s behavior from deep data. Not very informative. 
074:RATE=4
074:START=2022-09-19
074:TITLE=Don’t Trust Your Gut
075:
075:AUTHOR=Mohsin Hamid
075:END=2022-10-08
075:MEDIA=Libby audio
075:NOTE=2022-10-08|Solved racism problem by changing all white people into black. 
075:RATE=4.8
075:START=2022-10-02
075:TITLE=The Last White Man
076:
076:AUTHOR=Nedra Glover Tawwab
076:END=2022-11-14
076:MEDIA=Libby audio
076:NOTE=2022-11-14|Good! Self improvement. Building self awareness and structure when interacting with others. 
076:RATE=4.5
076:START=2022-10-31
076:TITLE=Set Boundaries, Find Peace
077:
077:AUTHOR=Neil deGrasse Tyson
077:END=2022-12-09
077:MEDIA=Libby audio
077:NOTE=2022-12-09|Prospective on and critic of human life, thinking, and behavior on earth. 
077:RATE=4.8
077:START=2022-11-28
077:TITLE=Starry Messenger
078:
078:AUTHOR=Siddhartha Mukherjee
078:END=2022-12-29
078:MEDIA=Libby
078:NOTE=2022-12-29|History of genetic research. Difficult vocabulary. 
078:RATE=4.8
078:START=2022-12-10
078:TITLE=The Gene
079:
079:AUTHOR=Safia Elhillo
079:END=2023-01-07
079:MEDIA=Libby
079:NOTE=2023-01-07|I think I’m not really into English poetry. 
079:RATE=2.0
079:START=2023-01-05
079:TITLE=Girls That Never Die
080:
080:AUTHOR=Yuval Noah Harari
080:END=2023-01-15
080:MEDIA=Libby audio
080:NOTE=2023-01-15|History of sapiens well told to children and adults as well. 
080:RATE=4.8
080:START=2023-01-11
080:TITLE=Unstoppable Us, Volume 1
081:
081:AUTHOR=Temple Grandin
081:MEDIA=Libby
081:NOTE=2023-01-28|I couldn’t finish the book. The author is repeating the same thought nonstop. 
081:START=2023-01-20
081:STOP=2023-01-28
081:TITLE=Visual Thinking
082:
082:AUTHOR=Siddhartha Mukherjee
082:END=2023-02-12
082:MEDIA=Libby
082:NOTE=2023-02-12|History of cell discoveries, treatments of cellular malfunction, and the making of new humans. 
082:RATE=4.9
082:START=2023-01-31
082:TITLE=The Song of The Cell
083:
083:AUTHOR=Siddhartha Mukherjee
083:END=2023-02-14
083:MEDIA=Libby
083:NOTE=2023-02-14|Although it’s a small book, it covers three big pictures of three relationships between patients, physicians, and medicine. Doctors knowledge about the patient, illness, and medicines are limited and uncertain. 
083:RATE=4.8
083:START=2023-02-13
083:TITLE=The Laws of Medicine
084:
084:AUTHOR=Gabor Maté, MD
084:END=2023-03-08
084:MEDIA=Libby audio
084:NOTE=2023-03-08|Our societies are traumatizing everyone to conform to an illusionary “normal” model. The book described there impact on the physical and mental health. It also covers the sources of these illnesses and provides a path to healing.    
084:RATE=4.9
084:START=2023-02-20
084:TITLE=The Myth of Normal
085:
085:AUTHOR=Elizabeth Strout
085:END=2023-03-27
085:MEDIA=Libby
085:NOTE=2023-03-27|Stories of people in a small town who are connected to Olive. 
085:RATE=4.6
085:START=2023-03-16
085:TITLE=Olive Kitteridge
086:
086:AUTHOR=Jordan B Peterson
086:MEDIA=Libby audio
086:NOTE=2023-04-07|The author talks too much. It’s enough to know the 12 rules by name without his  explanations. He used religion too much to support his arguments although I didn’t find any relationship to the subject.        
086:START=2023-04-01
086:STOP=2023-04-07
086:TITLE=12 Rules for Life
087:
087:AUTHOR=Malcolm Gladwell
087:END=2023-04-20
087:MEDIA=Libby
087:NOTE=2023-04-20|Clearly explains why we don’t understand strangers by giving real life examples of historically known cases in politics, social relations, and fighting crimes. 
087:RATE=5
087:START=2023-04-11
087:TITLE=Talking to Strangers
088:
088:AUTHOR=Jeanette Winterson
088:END=2023-05-08
088:MEDIA=Libby
088:NOTE=2023-05-08|The authors life story as an adopted girl and her acceptance of it. 
088:RATE=4
088:START=2023-04-24
088:TITLE=Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal
089:
089:AUTHOR=Matthew McConaughey
089:END=2023-05-23
089:MEDIA=Libby
089:NOTE=2023-05-23|Authors biography with reflections
089:RATE=4.5
089:START=2023-05-09
089:TITLE=Greenlights
090:
090:AUTHOR=Elizabeth Strout
090:END=2023-06-15
090:MEDIA=Libby
090:NOTE=2023-06-15|Very good details about the lives and emotions of  number of people. I liked the depth in old people lives. 
090:RATE=4.9
090:START=2023-06-03
090:TITLE=Olive, Again
091:
091:AUTHOR=Gabriel Garcia Marquez
091:MEDIA=Libby audio
091:NOTE=2023-06-27|Old history and many Spanish names made it difficult to follow the story. I heard only the first chapter. 
091:NOTE=2024-11-26|Borrowed this book before in audio and I didn’t like it. This time a friend recommended it. I’ll try the print copy. 
091:START=2023-06-27
091:START=2024-11-26
091:STOP=2023-06-27
091:STOP=2024-11-26
091:TITLE=One Hundred Years of Solitude (audio)
092:
092:AUTHOR=Sandeep Jauhar 
092:END=2023-07-17
092:MEDIA=Libby audio
092:NOTE=2023-07-17|A diary of the authors experience taking care of his dying father. 
092:RATE=5
092:START=2023-07-06
092:TITLE=My Father’s Brain
093:
093:AUTHOR=Jhumpa Lahore
093:MEDIA=Libby audio
093:NOTE=2023-11-18|Not interesting short stories. 
093:START=2023-11-16
093:STOP=2023-11-18
093:TITLE=Roman Stories
094:
094:AUTHOR=David Brooks
094:END=2023-12-24
094:MEDIA=Libby
094:NOTE=2023-12-24|Examples from the lives of famous people through the centuries. Proposing a balance between external success and internal awareness. 
094:RATE=4.5
094:START=2023-12-05
094:TITLE=The Road To Character
095:
095:AUTHOR=David Brooks
095:END=2024-01-14
095:MEDIA=Libby
095:NOTE=2024-01-14|Conscience and unconscience brain activities within there context of social life. 
095:RATE=4.8
095:START=2023-12-26
095:TITLE=The Social Animal
096:
096:AUTHOR=David Brooks
096:END=2024-02-03
096:MEDIA=Libby
096:NOTE=2024-02-03|How to communicate to understand others and help them understand you. 
096:RATE=4.9
096:START=2024-01-20
096:TITLE=HOW TO KNOW A PERSON
097:
097:AUTHOR=Jean-Jacques Rousseau
097:END=2024-04-15
097:MEDIA=Libby
097:NOTE=2024-04-15|How to educate a man from birth to marriage including selecting a suitable wife. 
097:RATE=4.9
097:START=2024-02-03
097:TITLE=Emile
098:
098:AUTHOR=Emma Cline
098:MEDIA=Libby
098:NOTE=2024-04-16|I found it boring.
098:START=2024-04-16
098:STOP=2024-04-16
098:TITLE=The Guest
099:
099:AUTHOR=Lisa Wingate
099:END=2024-05-06
099:MEDIA=Libby
099:NOTE=2024-05-06|Fictional characters representing a true life story from the 1930s about a scandal of snapping children of poor families to sell them to rich families for adoption. 
099:RATE=4.8
099:START=2024-04-16
099:TITLE=Before We Were Yours
100:
100:AUTHOR=Colm Toibin
100:END=2024-05-28
100:MEDIA=Libby
100:NOTE=2024-05-28|Nice story of an Irish girl who moved to Brooklyn. 
100:RATE=4.6
100:START=2024-05-16
100:TITLE=Brooklyn
101:
101:AUTHOR=Esther Perel
101:END=2024-06-16
101:MEDIA=Libby
101:NOTE=2024-06-16|Survey of couples who found it difficult to keep sexual relationship active throughout marriage. 
101:RATE=4.8
101:START=2024-06-01
101:TITLE=Matting in Captivity
102:
102:AUTHOR=Amor Towles
102:END=2024-07-04
102:MEDIA=Libby
102:NOTE=2024-07-04|Well written short stories. The last one takes one half the book and I felt bored during its first part. 
102:RATE=4.9
102:START=2024-06-23
102:TITLE=Table for Two
103:
103:AUTHOR=Michael Bhaskar
103:AUTHOR=Mustafa Suleyman
103:END=2024-07-22
103:MEDIA=Libby
103:NOTE=2024-07-22|Top level discussion of the impact of AI and biosynthesis on political, economic, and social life. Repeats himself a lot trying to stress his opinion. However, the book widely covered the important issues. 
103:RATE=4.8
103:START=2024-07-05
103:TITLE=The Coming Wave
104:
104:AUTHOR=Fareed Zakaria
104:END=2024-08-15
104:MEDIA=Libby
104:NOTE=2024-08-15|Excellent review of western political history with emphasis on its similarities with current political environment. 
104:RATE=4.5
104:START=2024-07-28
104:TITLE=Age of Revolutions
105:
105:AUTHOR=Colm Toibin
105:END=2024-08-22
105:MEDIA=Libby
105:NOTE=2024-08-22|A sequel to the novel Brooklyn. The author left the end open not knowing what will happen next. 
105:RATE=4.8
105:START=2024-08-16
105:TITLE=Long Island
106:
106:AUTHOR=Jonathan Haidt
106:END=2024-09-13
106:MEDIA=Libby
106:NOTE=2024-09-13|Effect of social media on generation Z. Providing evidence in scientific research and actions for protecting children and allowing them to grow in real world. 
106:RATE=4.9
106:START=2024-08-24
106:TITLE=The Anxious Generation
107:
107:AUTHOR=Yuval Noah Harari
107:END=2024-09-29
107:MEDIA=Libby
107:NOTE=2024-09-29|History of information flow's impact on human behavior and what to expect from AI (Alien Intelligence) in the future. 
107:RATE=4.9
107:START=2024-09-13
107:TITLE=Nexus
108:
108:AUTHOR=Sara Imari Walker
108:END=2024-10-14
108:MEDIA=Libby
108:NOTE=2024-10-14|Too theoretical!
108:RATE=4.1
108:START=2024-10-08
108:TITLE=Life As No One Knows It
109:
109:AUTHOR=Sarah J. Maas
109:END=2024-10-30
109:MEDIA=Libby
109:NOTE=2024-10-30|Imaginary world of immortals. 
109:RATE=4.5
109:START=2024-10-21
109:TITLE=A Court of Thorns and Roses
110:
110:AUTHOR=Stephen king
110:END=2024-11-19
110:MEDIA=Libby
110:NOTE=2024-11-19|Easy to read.
110:RATE=4.8
110:START=2024-11-06
110:TITLE=You Like It Darker
111:
111:AUTHOR=Freida McFadden
111:END=2024-11-25
111:MEDIA=Libby audio
111:NOTE=2024-11-25|An abused wife hires an exconvicte housemaid to take her place and kill her husband. The wife covered up the maid's crime and recommends her for another abused wife. 
111:RATE=4.5
111:START=2024-11-20
111:TITLE=The Housemaid
113:
113:AUTHOR=Gabriel Garcia Marquez
113:END=2024-12-21
113:MEDIA=Libby
113:NOTE=2024-12-21|Pleasurable reading. Not for every one because of a lot of insist. 
113:RATE=4.9
113:START=2024-11-26
113:TITLE=One Hundred Years of Solitude
114:
114:AUTHOR=Petter Attia, MD
114:MEDIA=Libby
114:NOTE=2025-01-13|I stopped because the libraries 21 days expired. I’ll borrow it again to finish it. I stopped in the “Balance” section. 
114:START=2024-12-25
114:STOP=2025-01-13
114:RESUME=2025-03-05
114:NOTE=2025-03-05|Libby app started at exactly the page I stopped at last time before returning the book to the library. This app is good.
114:TITLE=Outlive
114:END=2025-03-14
114:NOTE=2025-03-14|Inspiring! The book provides a detailed explanation of how to proactively manage lifestyle choices for a higher-quality, longer life. I’ve already started implementing some of its insights into my diet, exercise, and emotional well-being. A must-read for everyone, regardless of age!
114:RATE=4.9
115:
115:AUTHOR=Elizabeth Strout
115:END=2025-01-27
115:MEDIA=Libby
115:NOTE=2025-01-27|Excellent! Full of human relations thoughts. 
115:RATE=4.9
115:START=2025-01-15
115:TITLE=Tell Me Everything
116:
116:AUTHOR=Richard Powers
116:MEDIA=Libby
116:LINK=https://share.libbyapp.com/title/6079704
116:NOTE=2025-01-29|Pushed myself to read 27% of the book. Neither the subjects nor the writing is my type. 
116:START=2025-01-28
116:STOP=2025-01-29
116:TITLE=Bewilderment
117:
117:AUTHOR=Sabaa Tahir
117:MEDIA=Libby
117:LINK=https://share.libbyapp.com/title/10478145
117:NOTE=2025-01-30|Too much science. 
117:START=2025-01-29
117:STOP=2025-01-30
117:TITLE=Heir
118:
118:AUTHOR=Kelly Corrigan
118:END=2025-02-08
118:MEDIA=Libby
118:LINK=https://share.libbyapp.com/title/3348921
118:NOTE=2025-02-08|Frank and open stories from the author's life who lived an ordinary American life. 
118:RATE=4.8
118:START=2025-01-31
118:TITLE=Tell Me More
119:
119:AUTHOR=Charles Dickens 
119:MEDIA=Libby
119:LINK=https://share.libbyapp.com/title/784589
119:START=2025-02-10
119:TITLE=Great Expectations
119:END=2025-03-04
119:RATE=5.0
119:NOTE=2025-03-04|I enjoyed reading this novel, even though I had to look up many unfamiliar words. The storyline is full of surprises and rich with life lessons. I found Pip relatable, despite the fact that he lived a century before me, as the relationships in the book reminded me of those from my own childhood. I highly recommend this book to everyone. However, I think reading it with a teacher would provide a deeper understanding of its cultural context.
120:
120:TITLE=Nights of Miracles
120:AUTHOR=Elizabeth Berg
120:MEDIA=Libby
120:LINK=https://share.libbyapp.com/title/3994641
120:NOTE=2025-03-14|I selected this book to read because I liked another book by the same author.
120:START=2025-03-15
120:NOTE=2025-03-16|This book expands on the world introduced in The Story of Arthur Truluv, following new characters while staying rooted in the same charming town.
120:NOTE=2025-03-19|Food and cooking enthusiasts will find this novel a delightful and engaging read.
120:SUBJECT=Fiction
120:SUBJECT=Literature
120:END=2025-03-22
120:RATE=5.0
121:
121:TITLE=The Heart's Invisible Furies
121:AUTHOR=John Boyne
121:MEDIA=Libby
121:LINK=https://share.libbyapp.com/title/3177255
121:SUBJECT=Fiction
121:SUBJECT=Literature
121:START=2025-03-23
121:NOTE=2025-03-28|Explicit depictions of sexual encounters that were met with widespread condemnation in mid-20th century Ireland.
121:END=2025-04-04
121:RATE=4.7
122:
122:TITLE=The Magician
122:AUTHOR=Colm Toibin
122:MEDIA=Libby
122:LINK=https://share.libbyapp.com/title/6103422
122:SUBJECT=Fiction
122:SUBJECT=Literature
122:SUBJECT=Historical Fiction
122:START=2025-04-06



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