Author Archives: schoultz

Why this book: Selected by my Science Fiction Book Club Summary in 3 Sentences: These are a series of stories told in an interview many decades in the future, with a woman at the end of her career as a robo-psychologist … Continue reading →

Why this book: Selected by my literature reading group.  Initially suggested by my daughter who said she was reading it with her husband, so Mary Anne and I wanted to join them, so we suggested it to our reading group which … Continue reading →

Why this book:  Selected by my Science Fiction Book Club – as one of the classics which anticipates the future development of a Metaverse. Summary in 4 Sentences:  The time frame is the 2040s and a Metaverse-like virtual world has … Continue reading →

Why this book: Selected by my SEAL book club, largely on the recommendation of Gen Jim Mattis. Summary in 3 Sentences:  Written in the first person from the perspective of a young man from a working class familywho had been … Continue reading →

Why this book: Selected by my litrature reading group. Coetzee is a Nobel Prize winning author and the only author to win the Booker Prize twice. Summary in 3 Sentences:  Set in an unnamed “empire”, presumaly in the 19th century, that … Continue reading →

Why this book: Selected by my SEAL Reading group as our next selection Summary in 3 Sentences:  This is a coming of age story of a young girl grwoing up  isolated in a shack in the marshes on the coast … Continue reading →

Why this book: Selected by my literature reading group. Two of us were about to go on an expeidition-hike in the Dolomites with NOLS, and this book was on the recommended reading list for this hike.  Summary in 3 Sentences: … Continue reading →

Why this book: Recommended to me by my son Brad Summary in 3 Sentences: Colin Broderick recounts his life grwoing up in Northern Ireland from his earliest memories as a child to about age 20 when he decides to leave … Continue reading →

Why this Book: Selected by my Science Fiction Reading Group.  A couple in the group wanted to read a Heinlein book and though Starship Troopers was the only Heinlein book I’d read, I also wanted to read this, his most … Continue reading →