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. Are You There Vodka, It’s Me Chelsea by Chelsea Handler
2. Lucky Man by Michael J Fox
3. How Children Succeed by Paul Tough
4. Chasing Harry Winston  by Lauren Weisberger
5. Dream Lake  by Lisa Kleypas
6. The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
7. Head Over Heels by Jill Shalvis
8. Crescent and Star by Stephen Kinzer
9. Fight Back and Win by Gloria Allred
10. Ain’t She Sweet  by Susan Elizabeth Phillips

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. The Way of the Wizard by Deepak Chopra
2. Everyone is Beautiful by Katherine Center
3. Back Roads by Susan Crandall
4. Crescent and Star by Stephen Kinzer
5. Destiny of the Republic by Candice Millard
6. The Guardian Angelino series (starts with Edge of Sight) by Roxanne St. Clair
7. On Love  by Alain de Botton
8. Never Knowing by Chevy Stevens
9. The Paris Wife by Paula McLain
10. Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

Crescent & Star

Crescent & Star: Turkey Between Two Worlds by Stephen Kinzer

Description from Amazon.com:

“In the first edition of this widely praised book, Stephen Kinzer made the convincing claim that Turkey was the country to watch—poised between Europe and Asia, between the glories of its Ottoman past and its hopes for a democratic future, between the dominance of its army and the needs of its civilian citizens, between its secular expectations and its Muslim traditions. In this newly revised edition, he adds much important new information on the many exciting transformations in Turkey’s government and politics that have kept it in the headlines, and also shows how recent developments in both American and European policies (and not only the war in Iraq) have affected this unique and perplexing nation.”

My Thoughts:

I have become intrigued with Turkey. This country is one to watch as they struggle to take on a larger presence in the world. Kinzer provides a nicely written introduction to Turkey and their attempts to modernize. Kinzer is not the first author to theorize that Turkey will become the first Islamic democracy and soon to be a world leader. I enjoyed his passionate portrayal of a strong nation with fascinating people.