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. Love Wins by Rob Bell
2. The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
3. Handle With Care by Jodi Picoult
4. Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
5. Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
6. Every Last One by Anna Quindlen
7. Being Peace by Thich Nhat Hanh
8. This Is Where I Leave You by Jonathan Tropper
9. Shelter Me by Juliette Fay
10. Man’s Search For Meaning by Viktor Frankl

Monday Recommendation List

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. Sookie Stackhouse Series (first is Dead Until Dark) by Charlaine Harris
2. Secrets of a Summer Night by Lisa Kleypas
3. Fragile by Lisa Unger
4. Lead Me On by Victoria Dahl
5. My Sister’s Keeper  by Jodi Picoult
6. One True Thing by Anna Quindlen
7. The Post Birthday World by Lionel Shriver
8. Soul Surfer by Bethany Hamilton
9. If This is a Man by Primo Levi
10. Catch 22 by Joseph Heller

Perfect Match

Perfect Match by Jodi Picoult

My rating (out of 5 stars):

3 stars—I liked it.

Amazon Description:

“In the course of her everyday work, career-driven assistant district attorney Nina Frost prosecutes child molesters and works determinedly to ensure that a legal system with too many loopholes keeps these criminals behind bars. But when her own five-year-old son, Nathaniel, is traumatized by a sexual assault, Nina and her husband, Caleb, a quiet and methodical stone mason, are shattered, ripped apart by an enraging sense of helplessness in the face of a futile justice system that Nina knows all too well. In a heartbeat, Nina's absolute truths and convictions are turned upside down, and she hurtles toward a plan to exact her own justice for her son -- no matter the consequence, whatever the sacrifice.”

My Thoughts:

Picoult, once again, brings a troubling issue to the page. I enjoy her books on a certain level, but tend to feel like something is missing. That held true here. I liked the book, but felt it was skating over the issue with the sheer abundance of drama in the plot.

I liked it, and if you like Picoult, you will like it too. She is a talented author and I do recommend her books.

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

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

Monday Recommendation List

Monday Recommendation List

Random list of 10 books each Monday! I have read and enjoyed each one 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.

Let me know what you think!!

This weeks 10 recommendations (in no particular order):

1. For the curious…or a gift for the curious: A World of Curiosities by John Oldale
2. Religion focused on love: Love Wins by Rob Bell
3. Creepy…Never seen the movie? Even better!: The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris
4. Sweet Romance: Heaven, Texas by Susan Elizabeth Phillips
5. Sassy Romance: Smooth Talking Stranger by Lisa Kleypas
6. Emotional/Dramatic: Handle With Care by Jodi Picoult
7. Classic/Iconic: Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
8. Intriguing: Veronika Decides to Die by Paulo Coelho
9. Crime Drama Series: The Alex Cross series starts with Along Came a Spider by James Patterson
10. Will compel you to support victims of child abuse: A Child Called It by Dave Pelzer