Monday!

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. Schindler’s List by Thomas Keneally
2. The Big Short by Michael Lewis
3. The Quickie  by James Patterson
4. The Bright Side of Disaster by Katherine Center
5. The Giver by Lois Lowry
6. Natural Born Charmer by Susan Elizabeth Phillips
7. CEO of Me by Ellen Kossek and Brenda Lautsch
8. Siblings Without Rivalry by Adele Faber
9. Lucky Man by Michael J Fox
10. The End of the Affair by Graham Greene

Monday!

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 New York Times Guide to Essential Knowledge by John Leonard
2. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
3. Sail by James Patterson
4. Half Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls
5. The Informant by James Grippando
6. Genesis by Bernard Beckett
7. Columbine by Dave Cullen
8. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
9. Just One of the Guys by Kristan Higgins
10. In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson

It's Monday!

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 Stolen Life by Jaycee Dugard
2. Game Change by John Heilemann
3. The Gift by Julie Garwood
4. Little Earthquakes by Jennifer Weiner
5. In Death series (first is Naked in Death) by J.D. Robb
6. Veronika Decides to Die by Paulo Coelho
7. Alex Cross series (first is Along Came a Spider) by James Patterson
8. Rememberance by Jude Deveraux
9. Lost in Shangri-La by Mitchell Zuckoff
10. Look Again by Lisa Scottoline

Cross

Cross by James Patterson

My rating (out of 5 stars):

4 stars—I really liked it.

My Thoughts:

This is the 12^th book in the Alex Cross series and I really enjoyed it! There was a point when I thought about stopping this series…but I’m glad I decided to continue!

If you want to try this series the first book is “Along Came a Spider.”

 Description from Goodreads.com:

“Forensic psychologist Alex Cross's storied career in private practice, with the FBI and as a Washington, D.C., cop has brought him into contact with all kinds of seriously disturbed killers, but his 12th outing from bestseller Patterson (after 2005's Mary, Mary) may be the ultimate in lunatic deadliness. Beginning with a flashback to the murder of Cross's wife, Maria, Patterson quickly introduces Michael Sullivan (aka the Butcher of Sligo). What follows is a frenetically paced series of brutal rapes and killings by Sullivan, once employed by the mob as a freelancer and now at war with them. Cross juggles being a single parent and being involved in the dangerous game of tracking serial killers until he finally decides to give it up for his family. Needless to say, he's drawn back into the game when it promises a chance of finding Maria's killer. Cross's competence and vulnerability make a stark contrast with Sullivan's sadistic mutilations and psychological manipulations of his victims. Fans know that Cross will survive, but at what cost?”

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. Look Again by Lisa Scottoline
2. Love Your Life by Victoria Osteen
3. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
4. Wild Swans  by Jung Chang
5. Wherever You Go, There You Are  by Jon Kabat-Zinn
6. Day After Night by Anita Diamant
7. Say You Love Me by Johanna Lindsey
8. The Quickie by James Patterson
9. War by Sebastian Junger
10. Tao Te Ching  by Lao Tzu