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. Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
2. Running the Books by Avi Steinberg
3. Dead Man Walking by Helen Prejean
4. Eve Duncan series (first is Face of Deception)  by Iris Johansen
5. Don’t Cry  by Beverly Barton
6. Blood Vines by Erica Spindler
7. Let’s Take the Long Way Home by Gail Caldwell
8. It Had to Be You by Susan Elizabeth Phillips
9. The Outsiders by SE Hinton
10. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

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. Suspense: The Bride Collector by Ted Dekker
2. Beautiful Friendship: Let’s Take the Long Way Home by Gail Caldwell
3. Spicy Romance: Slow Heat by Jill Shalvis
4. How to be Happy: The Art of Happiness by Dalai Lama XIV
5. Emotional Drama: My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult
6. Satire: Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
7. Presidential Facts: Don’t Know Much About the Presidents by Kenneth Davis
8. Spiritual Thought: Embraced by the Light by Betty Eadie
9. Romantic Classic: Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
10. For the Writer: On Writing by Stephen King

Let's Take the Long Way Home

Let’s Take the Long Way Home by Gail Caldwell

Oh my goodness. Poignant and incredibly moving, Gail Caldwell tells a story of amazing friendship and love. I was truly touched...even shed tears along her journey.

I have only felt this close to two female friends in my life, and both of those friendships were when I was young. One was from preschool through high school and the other was only for a few years during high school. Both of those friendships faded over time and distance. I would love to have a friend like this again. Someone to totally understand me and just "get" me. However, I find building intimate friendships hard as I like to remain emotionally detached. And with a husband and family it is hard to find the time to devote to a building a new, strong friendship. I have a lot of people I consider friends, but not one best friend who I feel I can tell all my secrets too and trust with my feelings.

Caldwell touched on a lot of points that resonated with me from emotional issues, to drinking, to writing.  Loved, loved, loved this one.