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. A Pale View of Hills by Kazuo Ishiguro
2. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
3. Perfect Parenting by Elizabeth Pantley
4. Traveling Light by Katrina Kittle
5. The Raven Prince by Elizabeth Hoyt
6. I Killed June Cleaver by Deborah Werksman
7. Dreaming of You by Lisa Kleypas
8. Lady Be Good  by Susan Elizabeth Phillips
9. Awaken the Spirit Within by Rebecca Rosen
10. Chosen by Chandra Hoffman

Chosen

Chosen by Chandra Hoffman

My rating:

4 stars—I really liked it.

My thoughts:

I enjoyed this book. I liked the perspectives of the different characters. I will try more by Hoffman!

Description Goodreads.com:

“It all begins with a fantasy: the caseworker in her "signing paperwork" charcoal suit standing alongside beaming parents cradling their adopted newborn, set against a fluorescent-lit delivery-room backdrop. It's this blissful picture that keeps Chloe Pinter, director of the Chosen Child's domestic-adoption program, happy while juggling the high demands of her boss and the incessant needs of both adoptive and biological parents.

But the very job that offers her refuge from her turbulent personal life and Portland's winter rains soon becomes a battleground involving three very different couples: the Novas, well-off college sweethearts who suffered fertility problems but are now expecting their own baby; the McAdoos, a wealthy husband and desperate wife for whom adoption is a last chance; and Jason and Penny, an impoverished couple who have nothing—except the baby everyone wants. When a child goes missing, dreams dissolve into nightmares, and everyone is forced to examine what he or she really wants and where it all went wrong.

Told from alternating points of view, Chosen reveals the desperate nature of desire across social backgrounds and how far people will go to get the one thing they think will be the answer.”