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. Never Look Away by Linwood Barclay
2. Embraced By the Light by Betty Eadie
3. The Black Dagger Brotherhood series (starts with Dark Lover) by J.R. Ward
4. Secrets of the Millionaire Mind by T. Harv Eker
5. Sweet Return by Anna Jeffrey
6. The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien
7. Fire in the Ashes by Jonathan Kozol
8. Awakening the Buddha Within by Lama Surya Das
9. Fatelessness by Imre Kertesz
10. One Last Thing Before I Go by Jonathan Tropper

Monday Recommendations (On Tuesday!)

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. Fatelessness by Imre Kertesz
2. Lady Be Good by Susan Elizabeth Phillips
3. Guts Kristen Johnston
4. The Chimps of Fauna Sanctuary by Andrew Westoll
5. The Mysterious Stranger by Mark Twain
6. Handle With Care by Jodi Picoult
7. Don’t Know Much About the Bible by Kenneth Davis
8. Game Change by John Heilemann
9. Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer
10. Ten Degrees of Reckoning by Hester Rumberg

Fate

Looking for a book that will leave you in a state of deep thought? Pick up Fateless by “Imre Kertesz.” What an excellent writer. Kertesz made me feel so many strong emotions. He has a true gift and won the Nobel prize for Literature to prove it.

In semi-autobiographical format, the book follows a teen boy through the Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps. The boy, George, attempts to accept his fate, but what is his fate? Is this his fate? Is there such a thing as fate? Can you overcome said fate?

George was living through unimaginable atrocity and trying to stay sane. The innocence of his childhood was stripped away and he came face to face with the evil that lurks in this world.

I was often in tears and after I finished, I pondered my own fate and my beliefs on many different things. This is the type of book that can change who you are as a person.