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 Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris
2. Eating Animals by Jonathan Foer
3. Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
4. What I Did For Love by Susan Elizabeth Phillips
5. The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
6. The Latehomecomer by Kao Kalia Yang
7. The Seven Spiritual Laws for Parents by Deepak Chopra
8. In For the Kill by John Lutz
9. Random Family by Adrian Leblanc
10. Tears of Rage by John Walsh

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 Green Mile by Stephen King
2. Every Last One by Anna Quindlen
3. Heaven, Texas by Susan Elizabeth Phillips
4. In Death Series (first is Naked in Death) by J.D. Robb
5. The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
6. The Complete Poems and Stories of Edgar Allan Poe
7. The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
8. The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle
9. The New York Times Guide to Essential Knowledge by John Leonard
10. The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

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. Spirit Stirring: Spirited by Rebecca Rosen
2. Political Behind the Scenese: Game Change by John Heilemann
3. Incredibly Inspirational Character: The Color Purple by Alice Walker
4. Mommy Drama: Little Earthquakes by Jennifer Weiner
5. Intriguing: The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
6. Success Planning: Having it All by John Assaraf
7. Shuddering Suspense: In For the Kill by John Lutz
8. Romantic: The Devil Who Tamed Her by Johanna Lindsey
9. Dramatic: Secrets of Eden by Chris Bohjalian
10. In Another’s Shoes: Random Family by Adrian LeBlanc

The Five People You Meet in Heaven

The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom

Description: "Eddie is a wounded war veteran, an old man who has lived, in his mind, an uninspired life. His job is fixing rides at a seaside amusement park. On his 83rd birthday, a tragic accident kills him, as he tries to save a little girl from a falling cart. He awakes in the afterlife, where he learns that heaven is not a destination. It's a place where your life is explained to you by five people, some of whom you knew, others who may have been strangers. One by one, from childhood to soldier to old age, Eddie's five people revisit their connections to him on earth, illuminating the mysteries of his "meaningless" life, and revealing the haunting secret behind the eternal question: Why was I here?"

What I thought:
A thought provoking read. Albom takes us through the steps the main character, Eddie, takes after his death. The people he meets on this journey each impart a different lesson from his life. I loved the concept of this book. Albom expresses that the people that have the greatest impact, are not necessarily the people you think they are. There is a meaning for each of us and exploring the purpose of Eddie’s life was fascinating.