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. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
2. Candide by Voltaire
3. The Autobiography of Malcolm X  by Alex Haley
4. Talking to Heaven by James Van Praagh
5. Raising Freethinkers by Dale McGowan
6. Life Laughs by Jenny McCarthy
7. Wherever You Go, There You Are by Jon Kabat-Zinn
8. Laird of the Mist by Paula Quinn
9. Then Came You by Lisa Kleypas
10. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver

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

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. Modern with a classic feel: The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
2. Simply a beautiful story: A Thousand Splendid Suns  by Khaled Hosseini
3. School reading throw-back: Candide by Voltaire
4. Rich Russian History: Nicholas and Alexandra by Robert Massie
5. Food for the brain:  An Incomplete Education by Judy Jones
6. Random information junkie: Freakanomics by Steven Levitt
7. And more…: SuperFreakanomics by Steven Levitt
8. Ponderous: Wherever You Go, There You Are by Jon Kabat-Zinn
9. Scottish romance: Laird of the Mist by Paula Quinn
10. Courageous memoir: Escape by Carolyn Jessop

Wherever You Go, There You Are

Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life by Jon Kabat-Zinn

A recommend for the spiritual reader. Wherever you go…there you are; isn’t that the truth? In a quest to live fully in the present, Kabat-Zinn takes the reader through meditation exercises.

I, personally, try very hard to overcome my weakness in wanting to busy every minute of the day. I can fully embrace the languid…but it’s hard for me to get my mind there some days. I hurry, hurry, hurry…and why? Really…why??

This book helped me focus on my goal to live more fully in the moment. After all, who can guarantee their next moment?