Monday's 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 Ledge by Jim Davidson and Kevin Vaughn
2. The President’s Club by Nancy Gibbs
3. Prague Winter by Madeleine Albright
4. The Mysterious Stranger by Mark Twain
5. Smooth Talking Stranger by Lisa Kleypas
6. Hunger Games (trilogy) by Suzanne Collins
7. River of Darkness by Buddy Levy
8. The Green Mile by Stephen King
9. The Campbell Series (starts with Highland Warrior) by Monica McCarty
10. The Winters in Bloom by Lisa Tucker

The Winters In Bloom

The Winters in Bloom by Lisa Tucker

My rating (out of 5 stars):

4 stars—I really liked it.

My Thoughts:

I found this to be a very emotional and moving story. I liked how Tucker slowly revealed the character’s as the events unfolded.

Description from Goodreads.com:

“Together for over a decade, Kyra and David Winter are happier than they ever thought they could be.  They have a comfortable home, stable careers, and a young son, Michael, who they love more than anything.  Yet because of their complicated histories, Kyra and David have always feared that this domestic bliss couldn’t last - that the life they created was destined to be disrupted.  And on one perfectly average summer day, it is: Michael disappears from his own backyard.

The only question is whose past has finally caught up with them: David feels sure that Michael was taken by his troubled ex-wife, while Kyra believes the kidnapper must be someone from her estranged family, someone she betrayed years ago.

As the Winters embark on a journey of time and memory to find Michael, they will be forced to admit these suspicions, revealing secrets about themselves they’ve always kept hidden.  But they will also have a chance to discover that it’s not too late to have the family they’ve dreamed of; that even if the world is full of risks, as long as they have hope, the future can bloom.

Lyrical, wise, and witty, The Winters in Bloom is Lisa Tucker’s most optimistic work to date.  This enchanting, life-affirming story will charm readers and leave them full of wonder at the stubborn strength of the human heart.”