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. How to Talk to a Widower by Jonathan Tropper
2. Start Something That Matters by Blake Mycoskie
3. The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
4. The Hot Zone by Richard Preston
5. On Beauty by Zadie Smith
6. Cry No More by Linda Howard
7. Bitter is the New Black by Jen Lancaster
8. Spirited by Rebecca Rosen
9. What it is Like to Go to War by Karl Marlantes
10. The Orchard by Theresa Weir

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. The Green Mile by Stephen King
2. Every Last One by Anna Quindlen
3. Heaven, Texas by Susan Elizabeth Phillips
4. In Death Series (first is Naked in Death) by J.D. Robb
5. The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
6. The Complete Poems and Stories of Edgar Allan Poe
7. The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
8. The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle
9. The New York Times Guide to Essential Knowledge by John Leonard
10. The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

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. For the brains: The Intellectual Devotional by David Kidder
2. Moving tribute: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
3. Surprisingly insightful: The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
4. My favorite short story: The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
5. Suspense: Cry No More by Linda Howard
6. Humorous: Bitter is the New Black by Jen Lancaster
7. Sarcastic: The Book of Joe by Jonathan Tropper
8. Young Romance: Perfect Chemistry by Simone Elkeles
9. Motivational: Love Your Life by Victoria Osteen
10. Fun Chick Lit: The Boy Next Door by Meg Cabot

The Diary of a Young Girl

 “The Diary of a Young Girl” by Anne Frank in an enduring memoir of life during the holocaust. I was introduced to this book in high school, and recently picked it up for another read.

Anne Frank puts a human face on the atrocities committed during this time in history. The honest words of a young girl put the reader, for a brief moment, in her shoes. Through this diary Anne Frank lives on, teaching so many others the effects of hatred and abuse of power on others.

Anne was denied the chance to develop into a woman. She was denied everything that comes with a long, happy life. And to add insult, she died amid hatred and inhumane conditions. I'm sure she could not understand how her fellow humans turned their backs on her, why she was hunted. And I cannot understand the why, can anyone?

I felt hopeless and sad thinking of Anne. She was introduced to the dregs of humanity. And they surround us, still today, these people filled with hatred. The persecution of others is still happening.