Caught Reading: Brown Line, August 2015

Watch out Brown Line riders, I caught you reading this month! Your tastes run the gamut from fiction to memoirs to self-help, and they all look fascinating. So just what are you reading?

In the follow-up to The Time Traveler's Wife, Chicagoan Audrey Niffenegger's Her Fearful Symmetry spins a ghostly tale about the mysteries of life, death and love.

Just before shipping off to war, a young poet visits his secret lovers' family home and leaves behind a poem that leads to speculation of a tragic love triangle in The Stranger's Child.

In the epistolary memoir Between the World and Me (one of our August Staff Picks), Ta-Nehisi Coates weaves personal narrative with historical viewpoints to share his experience of growing up black in America and illuminates how our past has shaped our present racial climate.

Words are our currency in today's society and what you write today lasts a lifetime and beyond, so choose your words carefully. In Everybody Writes, marketing specialist Ann Handley gives real-world writing tips for marketing yourself, whether on social media or a business proposal.

Find out what keeps scientists, philosphers and economists up at night in the What Should We Be Worried About?

Don't let this keep you up at night, but we're watching you, Chicago! Stay tuned for more updates on great books you're reading.