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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. And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini
2. Ten Degrees of Reckoning by Hester Rumberg
3. Voices: A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn
4. The Intellectual Devotional by David Kidder
5. The Complete Poems and Stories of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe
6. Having It All by John Assaraf
7. Secrets of Eden by Chris Bohjalian
8. Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang by Chelsea Handler
9. Stitches by David Small
10. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

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

1. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
2. Spirited by Rebecca Rosen
3. The Book of Joe by Jonathan Tropper
4. Genesis  by Bernard Beckett
5. Say You’re One of Them  by Uwem Akpan
6. Twilight by Stephanie Meyer
7. Raising Freethinkers by Dale McGowan
8. Freakanomics by Steven Levitt
9. A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
10. Schindler’s List  by Thomas Keneally

Monday Rocommendation 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. Curious Religious Reader: Don’t Know Much About the Bible by Kenneth Davis
2. Though Provoking: Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
3. New Classic: The Help by Kathryn Stockett
4. Police suspense series with a female lead: Naked in Death (first in series) by J.D. Robb
5. Spiritual parenting: The Seven Spiritual Laws for Parents by Deepak Chopra
6. Hmong Memoir: The Latehomecomer by Kao Kalia Yang
7. Romance: Rememberance by Jude Deveraux
8. Financial Savvy: The Total Money Makeover by Dave Ramsey
9. Classic Coming of Age:  The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
10. A Mother’s love: For Laci by Sharon Rocha

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

I appreciate unconventional thinkers. If a person is “normal” by societal standards I typically translate that as intensely boring and someone I would rather not interact with on a regular basis. A book that peaked my interest along these lines was “The Perks of Being a Wallflower” by Stephen Chbosky.

Narrated by a teenager in the form of letters sent to a stranger, the story portrays a person unpopular with “normal” people. The narrator is a “wallflower” in that he observes and takes in all that is going on around him. He ponders the meanings and asks questions that make him seem awkward.

The book has a lot of themes that distress many mainstream readers (homosexuality/drugs) so if these things are disturbing to you, skip this read. If you want to read about a young person coming to terms with himself though learning and confusion, this is a phenomenal read.