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. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver
2. 365 Things to Do With Your Kids by Bill Adler
3. The Collector by John Fowles
4. Natural Born Charmer  by Susan Elizabeth Phillips
5. A Journal for Jordan  by Dana Canedy
6. Third Life of Grange Copeland by Alice Walker
7. The Kommandant’s Girl by Pam Jenoff
8. Intimacy by Hanif Kureishi
9. The Way of the Wizard by Deepak Chopra
10. The Red Badge of Courage  by Stephen Crane

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 weeks 10 recommendations (in no particular order):

1. Reclaiming History by Vincent Bugliosi
2. The Kommandant’s Girl  by Pam Jenoff
3. Goodnight Nobody by Jennifer Weiner
4. Into Thin Air by Jon Kraukauer
5. The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
6. Baking with the Cake Boss by Buddy Valastro
7. Defending Jacob by William Landay
8. Beyond Religion by Dalai Lama XIV
9. Until There Was You by Kristan Higgins
10. Van Gogh: The Life by Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith

The Kommandant's Girl

The Kommandant’s Girl by Pam Jenoff

The plot of "The Kommandant's Girl" is a Jewish woman trying to fit into Nazi society under an assumed identity. I really loved the idea and I found portions to be emotional and engaging.

Then the author lost me. The character development was lacking and the story goes off track. I completely hated the ending. I'm not sure how exactly I wanted it to end, but I felt like it wrapped up in a rush and not to a realistic conclusion.

I expected more from this book and felt disappointed in the end.