A strong reminder of how diversity of your own experience, education and exposure can make you a better problem solver by letting you pull from a variety of topics and apply them together in inventive ways.

I loved the first two thirds of this book, but then it took a really dark turn that I just didn't enjoy. I'm still curious about the next story in the series, we'll see...

Satchel Paige was truly an American legend who lived baseball, loved to tell stories and had the most amazing pitching arm the game has ever seen. More people should know his story.

A clever story of a gentleman who is put on house arrest in a hotel in Moscow for decades and makes a life for himself in that world. I love how the author anthropomorphizes inanimate objects to describe how the appear. Those descriptions made me smile.

I normally love vampire novels, and I know Anne Rice is iconic in the genre, but I just didn't love this. It dragged for me.

Growing up I learned a little about John Fremont as he was credited as being an early explorer of Salt Lake City. It was neat to learn more in depth about his life and what a key role his wife, Jessie (fabulous name) played in history.

Complete guilty pleasure, and I thoroughly enjoyed it.

I learned a lot in this book - stories, impressions and thoughts from the last 400 years of African America. The audiobook is beautifully narrated by dozens of voices. This is a perfectly "snackable" book, but also can be listened to for hours at a time.

It's not often that the third book of a trilogy holds up to the quality of the first, but I thought this one did just that. It tied everything together while being engaging and interesting of its own right.

The briefest of biographies focusing mostly on her upbringing and music career highlights. I wish they'd included clips of her singing in this audible original. That would have given it more stars given this scant view and 3 hour length.