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 Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
2. Superfreakanomics by Steven Levitt
3. Say You Love Me  by Johanna Lindsey
4. Kiss an Angel by Susan Elizabeth Phillips
5. Those Who Save Us by Jenna Blum
6. The Collector by John Fowles
7. Dreams From My Father by Barack Obama
8. A Time to Kill by John Grisham
9. Are You There Vodka, It’s Me Chelsea by Chelsea Handler
10. Black Ops Series (starts with Show No Mercy) by Cindy Gerard

The Litigators

The Litigators by John Grisham

My rating:

3 stars—I liked it.

My Thoughts:

Any other Grisham fans out there? I enjoy his writing. This one moved slowly, but I enjoyed!

Description from Goodreads.com:

“The partners at Finley & Figg—all two of them—often refer to themselves as “a boutique law firm.” Boutique, as in chic, selective, and prosperous. They are, of course, none of these things. What they are is a two-bit operation always in search of their big break, ambulance chasers who’ve been in the trenches much too long making way too little. Their specialties, so to speak, are quickie divorces and DUIs, with the occasional jackpot of an actual car wreck thrown in. After twenty plus years together, Oscar Finley and Wally Figg bicker like an old married couple but somehow continue to scratch out a half-decent living from their seedy bungalow offices in southwest Chicago.

And then change comes their way. More accurately, it stumbles in. David Zinc, a young but already burned-out attorney, walks away from his fast-track career at a fancy downtown firm, goes on a serious bender, and finds himself literally at the doorstep of our boutique firm. Once David sobers up and comes to grips with the fact that he’s suddenly unemployed, any job—even one with Finley & Figg—looks okay to him.

With their new associate on board, F&F is ready to tackle a really big case, a case that could make the partners rich without requiring them to actually practice much law. An extremely popular drug, Krayoxx, the number one cholesterol reducer for the dangerously overweight, produced by Varrick Labs, a giant pharmaceutical company with annual sales of $25 billion, has recently come under fire after several patients taking it have suffered heart attacks. Wally smells money.

A little online research confirms Wally’s suspicions—a huge plaintiffs’ firm in Florida is putting together a class action suit against Varrick. All Finley & Figg has to do is find a handful of people who have had heart attacks while taking Krayoxx, convince them to become clients, join the class action, and ride along to fame and fortune. With any luck, they won’t even have to enter a courtroom!

It almost seems too good to be true.

And it is.”

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. Rizzoli & Isles series (starts with The Surgeon) by Tess Gerritsen
2. A Time to Kill by John Grisham
3. Siblings Without Rivalry by Adele Faber
4. See Jane Score  by Rachel Gibson
5. Every Child is a Genius  by Elise Griffith
6. 501 Ways to Boost Your Child’s Self Esteem by Robert Ramsey
7. Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
8. Match Me If You Can by Susan Elizabeth Phillips
9. Back Roads by Susan Crandall
10. Blueprints for Building Better Girls  by Elissa Schappell

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 weeks 10 recommendations (in no particular order):

1. Classic: Schindler’s List by Thomas Keneally
2. Historical Spiritual Fiction: Buddha by Deepak Chopra
3. Romance: Say You Love Me by Johanna Lindsey
4. Romantic Suspense: Seeing Red by Susan Crandall
5. Thought provoking YA:  The Giver by Lois Lowry
6. For Parents: 365 Things to Do With Your Kids by Bill Adler
7. Memoir: Dreams From My Father by Barack Obama
8. Legal Suspense: A Time to Kill by John Grisham
9. Humor: Are You There Vodka, It’s Me Chelsea by Chelsea Handler
10. Romantic Suspense Series: Black Ops series (starts with Show No Mercy) by Cindy Gerard

The Innocent Man

The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town by John Grisham

Description from Amazon:
"In the town of Ada, Oklahoma, Ron Williamson was going to be the next Mickey Mantle. But on his way to the Big Leagues, Ron stumbled, his dreams broken by drinking, drugs, and women. Then, on a winter night in 1982, not far from Ron’s home, a young cocktail waitress named Debra Sue Carter was savagely murdered. The investigation led nowhere. Until, on the flimsiest evidence, it led to Ron Williamson. The washed-up small-town hero was charged, tried, and sentenced to death—in a trial littered with lying witnesses and tainted evidence that would shatter a man’s already broken life, and let a true killer go free.
Impeccably researched, grippingly told, filled with eleventh-hour drama, John Grisham’s first work of nonfiction reads like a page-turning legal thriller. It is a book that will terrify anyone who believes in the presumption of innocence—a book no American can afford to miss."

 

My thoughts:

I was excited to read this nonfiction piece by Grisham. I was impressed by the research that went into this book. However, all of the details made it hard to get into. It was slow to start and hard to read in some places. Overall thought, the story of Ron Williamson is one that is unbelievable and truly concerning. I did further research after finishing the book. A recommend for fans of true crime, memoirs and/or justice themes.