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 Black Ops Series (first is Show No Mercy) by Cindy Gerard
2. The End of the Affair by Graham Greene
3. The Jonathan Stride series (first is Immoral) by Brian Freeman
4. Beautiful Disaster  by Jamie McGuire
5. Jack Kennedy: Elusive Hero  by Chris Matthews
6. Baking with the Cake Boss by Buddy Valastro
7. Unlikely Friendships by Jennifer Holland
8. Destiny of the Republic by Candice Millard
9. I Shall Not Hate by Izzeldin Abuelaish
10. What’s New, Cupcake  by Karen Tack

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. The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
2. An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro
3. Blueprints for Building Better Girls by Elissa Schappell
4. Fight Back and Win by Gloria Allred
5. I Shall Not Hate by Izzeldin Abuelaish
6. The Five Love Languages of Children by Gary Chapman
7. Rescue  by Anita Shreve
8. Simply Irresistible by Jill Shalvis
9. Ashes to Ashes by Tami Hoag
10. Running the Books by Avi Steinberg

I Shall Not Hate

I Shall Not Hate: A Gaza Doctor's Journey on the Road to Peace and Human Dignity by Izzeldin Abuelaish

This book made me feel very small. Some days I complain about truly asinine things. A memoir like this humbles me. In turns inspiring and heartbreaking, Dr. Abuelaish tells his story about life on the Gaza Strip.

 

In 2009, Dr. Abuelaish lost three daughters and a niece to an Israeli attack. While he was angry and grieving he also wanted to put a human face to this conflict. To show that real people, good people, are affected but these country's policies.

 

I find his dedication to a peace between Israel and Palestine both heroic and hopeful. He is the type of person that doesn't sit back and suffer injustice, instead he looks at both sides of the issue and works toward a solution.

 

I have to admit to an overall ignorance about this issue. I know the basics of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, but I had not really delved into the reasons behind it or the consequences of this long-standing feud. It is heartbreaking. I am hopeful that a peace can come to both sides for the sake of the people.