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. For Laci by Sharon Rocha  
2. Columbine by Dave Cullen
3. Perfect Chemistry by Simone Elkeles
4. Life Laughs  by Jenny McCarthy
5. Are You Ready  by Bob Harper
6. Superfreakanomics by Steven Levitt
7. The Big Short by Michael Lewis
8. Buddha by Deepak Chopra
9. Wandering by Herman Hesse
10. The Shock Doctrine  by Naomi Klein

The Shock Doctrine

The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein

My rating (out of 5 stars):

5 stars—It was amazing.

Description from Goodreads.com:

“In her groundbreaking reporting over the past few years, Naomi Klein introduced the term "disaster capitalism." Whether covering Baghdad after the U.S. occupation, Sri Lanka in the wake of the tsunami, or New Orleans post-Katrina, she witnessed something remarkably similar. People still reeling from catastrophe were being hit again, this time with economic "shock treatment," losing their land and homes to rapid-fire corporate makeovers.

The Shock Doctrine retells the story of the most dominant ideology of our time, Milton Friedman's free market economic revolution. In contrast to the popular myth of this movement's peaceful global victory, Klein shows how it has exploited moments of shock and extreme violence in order to implement its economic policies in so many parts of the world from Latin America and Eastern Europe to South Africa, Russia, and Iraq.

At the core of disaster capitalism is the use of cataclysmic events to advance radical privatization combined with the privatization of the disaster response itself. Klein argues that by capitalizing on crises, created by nature or war, the disaster capitalism complex now exists as a booming new economy, and is the violent culmination of a radical economic project that has been incubating for fifty years.”

My Thoughts:

Incredibly eye opening. Klein’s reporting here is phenomenal. I found myself both shocked and disturbed by the details in this book.

A must read for those interested in economics/politics/sociology.