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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. Schindler’s List by Thomas Keneally
2. The Big Short by Michael Lewis
3. The Quickie  by James Patterson
4. The Bright Side of Disaster by Katherine Center
5. The Giver by Lois Lowry
6. Natural Born Charmer by Susan Elizabeth Phillips
7. CEO of Me by Ellen Kossek and Brenda Lautsch
8. Siblings Without Rivalry by Adele Faber
9. Lucky Man by Michael J Fox
10. The End of the Affair by Graham Greene

The Lost Husband

The Lost Husband by Katherine Center

My rating:

3 stars—I liked it.

My thoughts:

I am a Katherine Center fan. I like her voice. This was a good story. I liked the characters developing throughout.  My only complaint would be that the story wraps up too quickly and neatly. The relationships in this one had a distance, too shiny…

Description from Goodreads.com:

“After the sudden loss of her husband in a car crash, Libby Moran falls on hard times-so hard, in fact, that she's forced to move in with her hyper-critical mother. There, sleeping on the pull-out sofa so her two children can share the guest room, she can't stop longing for the life she had. So when a letter arrives from Libby's estranged aunt offering her a job and a place to live on her goat farm, Libby jumps at the opportunity. But starting over is never easy. With an aunt who is nothing like she imagined, a shaggy farm manager with a tragic past, a psychic at the feed store who claims to be able to contact the dead, and a bully at her daughter's school, country life isn't at all what Libby expected. But it also offers her what no other place can: A chance to define the good life for herself. A chance to piece together the mysteries of her own past. A chance, even, at love. And, finally, a chance to bring herself, and her family, back to life.”

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. Bet Me by Jennifer Crusie
2. Dreams From My Father by Barack Obama
3. CEO of Me by Ellen Kossek and Brenda Lautsch
4. Happiness Now  by Robert Holden
5. The 4 Hour Work Week  by Timothy Ferriss
6. Kaffir Boy by Mark Mathabane
7. Goodnight Nobody by Jennifer Weiner
8. Don’t Know Much About History by Kenneth Davis
9. Everyone is Beautiful by Katherine Center
10. An Artist of the Floating World  by Kazuo Ishiguro

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. The Boy Next Door by Meg Cabot
2. Just One of the Guys by Kristan Higgins
3. Stephanie Plum series (starts with One for the Money) by Janet Evanovich
4. Laird of the Mist  by Paula Quinn
5. Seeing Red  by Susan Crandall
6. Kiss An Angel by Susan Elizabeth Phillips
7. The Bright Side of Disaster by Katherine Center
8. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
9. This Heart of Mine by Susan Elizabeth Phillips
10. The Middle Place  by Kelly Corrigan

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. The Way of the Wizard by Deepak Chopra
2. Everyone is Beautiful by Katherine Center
3. Back Roads by Susan Crandall
4. Crescent and Star by Stephen Kinzer
5. Destiny of the Republic by Candice Millard
6. The Guardian Angelino series (starts with Edge of Sight) by Roxanne St. Clair
7. On Love  by Alain de Botton
8. Never Knowing by Chevy Stevens
9. The Paris Wife by Paula McLain
10. Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

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. Moving but Disturbing: Say You’re One of Them by Uwem Akpan
2. Beautiful and Spiritual: Wandering by Herman Hesse
3. Suspense: The Quickie by James Patterson
4. Chick Lit: The Bright Side of Disaster by Katherine Center
5. Romance:  A Kingdom of Dreams by Judith McNaught
6. Dark: The Collector by John Fowles
7. Business Minded: CEO of Me by Ellen Kossek
8. Parenting: Siblings Without Rivalry by Adele Faber
9. Memoir: Lucky Man by Michael J Fox
10. Emotional Classic: The End of the Affair by Graham Greene

Get Lucky

Get Lucky by Katherine Center

Sarah has always been career driven. Suddenly she gets fired, leaving her feeling bereft. In her altered state of mind she decides to move home to Texas. While she is there why not carry a baby for her sister? The characters were amusing and the plot kept me reading.

Another cute, humorous story from Center.