Monday 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 week-- 10 recommendations (in no particular order):

1. The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
2. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
3. The Prophet by Khalil Gibran
4. Nicholas and Alexandra by Robert Massie
5. An Incomplete Education by Judy Jones
6. Twilight by Stephanie Meyer
7. Perfect Chemistry by Simone Elkeles
8. Wild Swans by Jung Chang
9. The Stephanie Plum series (starts with One for the Money) by Janet Evanovich
10. The Blessings of the Animals by Katrina Kittle

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. Shelter Me by Juliette Fay
2. A Child Called It by Dave Pelzer
3. Remembrance by Jude Deveraux
4. In For the Kill  by John Lutz
5. Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang  by Chelsea Handler
6. Cry No More by Linda Howard
7. Walden by Henry David Thoreau
8. Half Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls
9. Nicholas and Alexandra by Robert Massie
10. The Autobiography of Malcolm X  by Alex Haley

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. Modern with a classic feel: The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
2. Simply a beautiful story: A Thousand Splendid Suns  by Khaled Hosseini
3. School reading throw-back: Candide by Voltaire
4. Rich Russian History: Nicholas and Alexandra by Robert Massie
5. Food for the brain:  An Incomplete Education by Judy Jones
6. Random information junkie: Freakanomics by Steven Levitt
7. And more…: SuperFreakanomics by Steven Levitt
8. Ponderous: Wherever You Go, There You Are by Jon Kabat-Zinn
9. Scottish romance: Laird of the Mist by Paula Quinn
10. Courageous memoir: Escape by Carolyn Jessop

Nicholas and Alexandra

Nicholas and Alexandra by Robert K. Massie

Amazon Description:
“The story of the love that ended an empire. In this commanding book, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Robert K. Massie sweeps readers back to the extraordinary world of Imperial Russia to tell the story of the Romanovs’ lives: Nicholas’s political naïveté, Alexandra’s obsession with the corrupt mystic Rasputin, and little Alexis’s brave struggle with hemophilia. Against a lavish backdrop of luxury and intrigue, Massie unfolds a powerful drama of passion and history—the story of a doomed empire and the death-marked royals who watched it crumble.”

My thoughts:
Simply amazing. Massie is a master of the historical.

Russian history is rich and intriguing. Nicholas was the last Tsar of Russia. He and his family are brought to life on the page. Although this is nonfiction, it reads like a novel.  

I started the book, knowing how it would end, but I was still emotionally impacted. Such an awful fate for this family; haunting. I will continue to read about the Romanov dynasty. After this particular book was published more information was revealed during the fall of Communism. Massie has a follow up with “The Romanov’s: The Final Chapter.”

A definite recommend for the historical reader.