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 week-- 10 recommendations (in no particular order):

1. Captive Queen by Alison Weir
2. The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle
3. The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
4. The Metamorphisis by Franz Kafka
5. Walden by Henry David Thoreau
6. The Power of Less by Leo Babauta
7. The Book of Joe by Jonathan Tropper
8. For Laci by Sharon Rocha
9. Love Your Life by Victoria Osteen
10. The Boy Next Door by Meg Cabot

Mary Queen of Scots and the Murder of Lord Darnley

Mary Queen of Scots and the Murder of Lord Darnley by Alison Weir

My rating:

3 stars—I liked it.

My Thoughts:

I enjoyed learning more about the life of Mary. I enjoy Scottish history and this book was very informative. Weir is an excellent history writer.

Description from Goodreads.com:

“On the night of 10 February 1567 an explosion devastated the Edinburgh residence of Henry Stewart, Lord Darnley, second husband of Mary, Queen of Scots. The noise was heard as far away as Holyrood Palace, where Queen Mary was attending a wedding masque. Those arriving at the scene of devastation found, in the garden, the naked corpses of Darnley and his valet. Neither had died in the explosion, but both bodies bore marks of strangulation.

It was clear that they had been murdered and the house destroyed in an attempt to obliterate the evidence. Darnley was not a popular king-consort, but he was regarded by many as having a valid claim to the English throne. For this reason Elizabeth I had opposed his family's longstanding wish to marry him to Mary Stuart, who herself claimed to be the rightful queen of England.

Alison Weir's investigation of Darnley's murder is set against one of the most dramatic periods in British history. Her conclusions shed a brilliant new light on the actions and motives of the conspirators and, in particular, the extent of Mary's own involvement.”

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 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 week-- 10 recommendations (in no particular order):

1. Rainshadow Road by Lisa Kleypas
2. Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life by Karen Armstrong
3. The Hunger Games Trilogy by Suzanne Collins
4. Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
5. The Help by Kathryn Stockett
6. Little Earthquakes by Jennifer Weiner
7. What I Did For Love by Susan Elizabeth Phillips
8. The Intellectual Devotional by David Kidder
9. Start Something That Matters by Blake Mycoskie
10. Captive Queen by Alison Weir

Monday Recommendation List

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. History Lovers: Captive Queen by Alison Weir
2. Deep Thinking Required: The Power of Now  by Eckhart Tolle
3. Dramatic Story: The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
4. Suspenseful, but Quick: Sail by James Patterson
5. Simple Life (Original): Walden by Henry David Thoreau
6. Simple Life (ala modern times): The Power of Less by Leo Babauta
7. Vampire Madness: The Twilight Series by Stephanie Meyer
8. Mom Humor: Life Laughs by Jenny McCarthy
9. Beautiful Classic: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
10. Sweet Romance: Just One of the Guys by Kristan Higgins

The Princes in the Tower

The Princes in the Tower by Alison Weir

This is a recommend for the history reader. In this genre, Weir is one of the best. I am intrigued by English history, especially the monarchy.

How did King Edward V and his brother Richard die? Who killed these young boys? Weir’s examination is educated, well-researched and plausible.