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

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. All I Ever Wanted by Kristan Higgins
2. Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
3. The Four Agreements by Miguel Ruiz
4. Villette by Charlotte Bronte
5. Fire in the Ashes by Jonathan Kozol
6. I Killed June Cleaver by Deborah Werksman
7. The Nazi Officer’s Wife by Edith Hahn Beer
8. Gabby by Gabrielle Giffords
9. The President’s Club by Nancy Gibbs
10. Love Wins by Rob Bell

Catch-22

One of my many favorite classics is “Catch-22” by Joseph Heller. This book is not an easy read. It has to be read slowly so that the satire can be digested and appreciated. Ten years ago I wouldn’t have gotten the appeal, but today I absolutely love it.

One humorous quote, “Yossarian – the very sight of the name made him shudder. There were so many esses in it. It just had to be subversive. It was like the word subversive itself. It was like seditious and insidious too, and like socialist, suspicious, fascist and Communist.”

Taking all of the sarcastic pieces and filtering out the humor is the key to this book. It also makes you think a bit on the seriousness of certain things...should they be taken so seriously?