Stock Market Investing for Beginners - John Josefh Mallardh

 A great overview but I was definitely left feeling like I needed a lot more details on each topic before jumping into it myself.  I guess that makes this book a good place to start when you're considering investing options.  

Click, Click, ChaChing!: Learn the best and easiest way to build a passive income in 2020- Raphael Leonardo

 Despite the horrid title, this book was a reasonably interesting and diverse in its topics.  I think the author's varied approach was honest and the potential negatives were addressed even if the plus side was over emphasized.  The author focused more on methods that seemed more likely to be successful like online stores and advertising as opposed to barely mentioning blogging or selling photo, which makes sense if the purpose is to create revenue.  I'd say this is a good book if you just want to think of what's out there for you to try, but there are no secret details that will really help get your head above the rest.  

A Curious History of Sex - Kate Lister

 This was a fantastically fun book and I would highly recommend it for most people.  Of course, there is no way that one book can cover all of the history of sex, or even all of a single category.  But the author takes you on a lively trip through time regarding some of the most scandalous aspects that humans have created.  A few random bits to give you an idea of what to find in this book:

The word whore has only recently been associated with prostitution and for most of its existence simply meant a woman who had sex with anyone not her husband, but was still considered one of the greatest insults.

The word cunt is the oldest word in English for female genitals.  It is believed to originate from the same root as the word cunning.

Women riding bicycles was considered the highest of offences during the Victorian era. You could see their ankles!  They didn't squeeze themselves ill in corsets while riding!  It gave them freedom where they couldn't be watched by society!  Horrors!

People seem to have forgotten that if you don't have access to abortion and birth control, women will still get rid of unwanted children, including leaving them to suffocate in the outhouse. 

Once upon a time, the worst thing you could say were things related to religion, like "God's teeth", then it switched to things related to sex, like "fuck", and today the worst cuss words are shifting to things related to racism.  That's about 1000 years of bad word evolution right there.  Very interesting because the shift was so fast that there are people alive today who remember how horrible it was to say "fuck" not that long ago while they heard things like the N-word pretty regularly.  Those have now completely switched.

This book is littered with euphemisms for all manner of sex related acts and parts including the year they were first documented in print.  I loved learning the dates of when such terms came into common useage.  

Turn Coat - Jim Butcher (The Dresden Files, Bk. 11)

 I think this might be my favorite of the Dresden series so far.  Nothing terribly convoluted and no cheap hero-randomly-gets-saved-from-insurmountable-odds-by-luck bs.  We have a defined bad guy who's hiding in the shadows, so you know what's going on but not who.  There was one obvious "twist" but otherwise a fantastically well played book, peak chaotic good action.  

The Girl from Everywhere - Heidi Heilig

 A "you should read this because you read X" recommendation.  This book was ok, not a terribly captivating story, but well written with a few interesting concepts.  I always love a good time travel conundrum.  This one had circular logic, which is always fun.  You have to go back in time to leave the map for the person to get out so that they can find you and give you the map to give back to them kinda thing.  The MC didn't deviate because the finder ended up being her grandmother and wasn't about to mess with possibly not being, but I really want someone to not give away the map and see what happens.  That's the kind of chaotic evil I want to see in a time travel book.

This book merges real and fantasy in an odd way, vaguely like Harry Potter where the fantasy is just so absurd and random.  I wasn't too big of a fan there because it was jarring, but at least the author made a good excuse for it.  (The map doesn't have to be a real place to travel to it.)  I did, however, really enjoy the trip to Hawaii before the original local government was destroyed.  I don't know much about history of that region, so it did pique my interest in reading some history on the Hawaiian islands.  

Enna Burning - Shannon Hall (The books of Bayern, Bk. 2)

 A great sequel!  This author does a fantastic job of the YA novel not being too cliché.  The characters are cute but mostly realistic.  The story moves at a good pace and, most importantly, isn't focused on a teenage girl/boy finding the teenage girl/boy to marry crap.  I would highly recommend these books for anyone who likes a nice fantasy novel that's not too weird, gory, or explicit, a good middle ground between fun and realistic.  

Dropshipping Shopify E-Commerce 2020: Learn the secrets to generate a passive income - Steve Gates

 Exactly as the title says! A recently written book on how to break into the dropshipping game and use current models of websites, social media and sales sites to maximize your online store's selling capabilities.  In a few years, the rules and big players may change, but for now, this is a great how-to book on beginning an online dropshipping store.