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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. And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini
2. Ten Degrees of Reckoning by Hester Rumberg
3. Voices: A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn
4. The Intellectual Devotional by David Kidder
5. The Complete Poems and Stories of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe
6. Having It All by John Assaraf
7. Secrets of Eden by Chris Bohjalian
8. Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang by Chelsea Handler
9. Stitches by David Small
10. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

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. Man’s Search For Meaning by Viktor Frankl
2. The Total Money Makeover by Dave Ramsey
3. The Devil Who Tamed Her by Johanna Lindsey
4. Random Family  by Adrian Leblanc
5. Stitches  by David Small
6. Bitter is the New Black by Jen Lancaster
7. The Power of Less by Leo Babauta
8. The Informant by James Grippando
9. An Incomplete Education by Judy Jones
10. Talking to Heaven  by James Van Praagh

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. Passionate about history?: Voices: A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn
2. Sweet Romance: What I Did For Love by Susan Elizabeth Phillips
3. Creepy Classics: The Complete Poems and Stories of Edgar Allan Poe
4. Scary!: The Hot Zone by Richard Preston
5. Thought Provoking: On Beauty by Zadie Smith
6. Hilarious: Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang by Chelsea Handler
7. Unique: Stitches by David Small
8. Dystopian: Genesis by Bernard Beckett
9. True Crime: Columbine by Dave Cullen
10. Suspense: Look Again by Lisa Scottoline

Stitches

Stitches by David Small

Rating out of 5 stars:

4 stars...I really liked it.

Amazon.com Description:


"David Small, a best-selling and highly regarded children's book illustrator, comes forward with this unflinching graphic memoir. Remarkable and intensely dramatic, Stitches tells the story of a fourteen-year-old boy who awakes one day from a supposedly harmless operation to discover that he has been transformed into a virtual mute―a vocal cord removed, his throat slashed and stitched together like a bloody boot. From horror to hope, Small proceeds to graphically portray an almost unbelievable descent into adolescent hell and the difficult road to physical, emotional, and artistic recovery."


My Thoughts:

This book is original and intriguing. I was hooked from page one. This was my first graphic memoir. Small uses his artistic abilities to make the reader feel his words. I was moved by the expression shown in the illustrations. 

I finished this book in one sitting!

Who Should Read:

If you enjoy memoirs definitely read this one! I would also suggest to artistic readers, people who love children...or anyone, really!