Monday Recommendations

Monday Recommendation List

Random list of 10 books Monday! I have read and enjoyed each of these enough to flag for a potential personal library purchase.

Be bold and just choose randomly, stick to your normal genre...or step outside of your normal reading zone and try something you usually wouldn’t. You can look up the descriptions at Amazon.com, or search my blog for old posts by entering the title in the little search box in the top left-hand corner and clicking the magnifying glass.

This weeks 10 recommendations (in no particular order):

1. Scary Science: The Great Influenza by John Barry
2. Southern Classic: Third Life of Grange Copeland  by Alice Walker
3. Haunting Memoir: Kaffir Boy by Mark Mathabane
4. Parenting Tips: 501 Ways to Boost Your Child’s Self Esteem by Robert Ramsey
5. Healthy Thoughts:  Super Immunity by Joel Fuhrman
6. Emotional Romance: Dream Lake by Lisa Kleypas
7. Presidential Non-fiction: Jack Kennedy: Elusive Hero by Chris Matthews
8. Historical Romance: The Highland Guard Series (starts with The Chief) by Monica McCarty
9. Challenges of Parenting: Bloom by Kelly Hampton
10. Spicy Romance: Lord of Scoundrels by Loretta Chase

Monday Recommendations

Monday Recommendation List

Random list of 10 books Monday! I have read and enjoyed each of these enough to flag for a potential personal library purchase.

Be bold and just choose randomly, stick to your normal genre...or step outside of your normal reading zone and try something you usually wouldn’t. You can look up the descriptions at Amazon.com, or search my blog for old posts by entering the title in the little search box in the top left-hand corner and clicking the magnifying glass.

This weeks 10 recommendations (in no particular order):

1. Historical Fiction: The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
2. Sweet Romance: This Heart of Mine by Susan Elizabeth Phillips
3. Classic War Novel: A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
4. Touching gift to a child who lost his Father: A Journal for Jordan by Dana Canedy
5. For the Entrepreneurial Heart:  The 4 Hour Work Week by Timothy Ferriss
6. Thoughtful Parenting: Every Child is a Genius by Elise Griffith
7. Humorous Chick Lit: Chasing Harry Winston by Lauren Weisberger
8. Dysfunctional Romance: Beautiful Disaster by Jamie McGuire
9. Suspenseful: Love You More by Lisa Gardner
10. Classic: The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

Monday Recommendations

Monday Recommendation List...on Tuesday this week!

 

Random list of 10 books Monday! I have read and enjoyed each of these enough to flag for a potential personal library purchase.

Be bold and just choose randomly, stick to your normal genre...or step outside of your normal reading zone and try something you usually wouldn’t. You can look up the descriptions at Amazon.com, or search my blog for old posts by entering the title in the little search box in the top left-hand corner and clicking the magnifying glass.

This weeks 10 recommendations (in no particular order):

1. For the spiritually inclined: Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu
2. Award winning journalism: Hiroshima by John Hersey
3. Sassy Romance: Natural Born Charmer by Susan Elizabeth Phillips
4. Being Zen: Happiness Now by Robert Holden
5. Sizzling Romance:  See Jane Score by Rachel Gibson
6. Thoughtful Parenting: How Children Succeed by Paul Tough
7. Police Drama Series: Jonathan Stride series (starts with Immoral) by Brian Freeman
8. Romantic Suspense: To the Edge by Cindy Gerard
9. Travel Lover/Gift for: Secret Journeys by National Geographic
10. Dazzling Science: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

The Mom 100 Cookbook

The Mom 100 Cookbook: 100 Recipes Every Mom Needs in Her Back Pocket by Katie Workman

Amazon.com Description:

“Introducing the lifesaving cookbook for every mother with kids at home—the book that solves the 20 most common cooking dilemmas. What’s your predicament: breakfast on a harried school morning? The Mom 100’s got it—Personalized Pizzas are not only fast but are nutritious, and hey, it doesn’t get any better than pizza for breakfast. Kids making noise about the same old lunch? The Mom 100’s got it—three different Turkey Wraps, plus a Wrap Blueprint delivers enough variety to last for years.

Katie Workman, founding editor in chief of Cookstr and mother of two school-age kids, offers recipes, tips, techniques, attitude, and wisdom for staying happy in
the kitchen while proudly keeping it homemade—because homemade not only tastes best, but is also better (and most economical) for you. The Mom 100 is 20 dilemmas every mom faces, with 5 solutions for each: including terrific recipes for the vegetable-averse, the salad-rejector, for the fish-o-phobe, or the overnight vegetarian convert. “Fork-in-the-Road” variations make it easy to adjust a recipe to appeal to different eaters (i.e., the kids who want bland and the adults who don’t). “What the Kids Can Do” sidebars suggest ways for kids to help make each dish.”

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My Thoughts:
I like to look through cookbooks…even though I’m not much of a cook! This one has great ideas for the Mom who is in a hurry!

The Kill

The Kill by Allison Brennan

Amazon.com Description:

“Her worst nightmare brought back to life, she risks everything for a second shot at justice.

For thirty years, FBI scientist Olivia St. Martin has lived with guilt and one abiding certainty–that while she wasn’t able to save her sister’s life, she did testify and helped to convict the rapist and killer. When shocking new evidence exonerates the man Olivia is sure she saw abduct her sister, she breaks every rule in the book to uncover the truth.

Driven by the possibility that she put the wrong man behind bars, Olivia discovers that a serial killer has been at large all these years. Believing that the monster has just struck again in Seattle, Olivia leaves her lab and poses as a field agent, sharing her unofficial investigation with a hardworking Seattle cop. Olivia doesn’t want to lie to detective Zack Travis. And she certainly doesn’t want to fall in love. But as the investigation intensifies, Olivia and Zack find that they’re rapidly losing control–over their hearts, their secrets, and a case that threatens to consume them.”

My Thoughts:

A romantic suspense where the suspense was decent but the romance was not. The relationship between Olivia and Zack felt overly sugar coated and fluffy. The emotion just wasn’t there for me.