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. Sweet Romance: It Had To Be You by Susan Elizabeth Phillips
2. Heart Wrenching Memoir: They Cage the Animals At Night by Jennings Michael Burch
3. Spirit Stirring: Bhagavad gita
4. Dramatic Mother/Daughter: One True Thing by Anna Quindlen
5. Classic: 1984 by George Orwell
6. Parenting Help: Raising Your Spirited Child by Mary Kurcinka
7. Steamy, Action packed, Emotional: The Black Dagger Brotherhood Series (starts with Dark Lover) by J.R. Ward
8. Wrenching: 102 Minutes by Jim Dwyer
9. Amazing Author: The World According to Garp by John Irving
10. Hilarious: My Horizontal Life by Chelsea Handler

102 Minutes

I am back from my hiatus!! I did a lot of reading on my vacation...stay tuned for those reviews coming up.

For a heartbreaking look inside the Twin Towers on 9/11 read “102 Minutes—The Unforgettable Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers” by Jim Dwyer.

9/11 is a day in history that I will never forget. I remember what I was doing when the towers were hit and then I remember the grief and fear I felt in the weeks following the attack.

This book takes you inside the buildings while survivors and rescue personnel recount the chaos in their fight to survive and save others. These circumstances are unimaginable. Some things that really stuck with me from this are the 911 emergency transcriptions of the dying people waiting for a rescue that would never come, the family member accounts of phone calls with their loved ones who they never saw again and the heroes of that day who saved others at the cost of their own lives.

This book is a must read.