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. How to Talk to a Widower by Jonathan Tropper
2. Start Something That Matters by Blake Mycoskie
3. The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
4. The Hot Zone by Richard Preston
5. On Beauty by Zadie Smith
6. Cry No More by Linda Howard
7. Bitter is the New Black by Jen Lancaster
8. Spirited by Rebecca Rosen
9. What it is Like to Go to War by Karl Marlantes
10. The Orchard by Theresa Weir

The Orchard

The Orchard by Theresa Weir

My rating out of 5 stars:

4 stars—I really liked it.

My Thoughts:

This was a beautifully written memoir. I loved Weir’s voice, honesty and imagery.

A recommend for the memoir reader!

Description from Goodreads.com:

“THE ORCHARD is the story of a street-smart city girl who must adapt to a new life on an apple farm after she falls in love with Adrian Curtis, the golden boy of a prominent local family whose lives and orchards seem to be cursed. Married after only three months, young Theresa finds life with Adrian on the farm far more difficult and dangerous than she expected. Rejected by her husband's family as an outsider, she slowly learns for herself about the isolated world of farming, pesticides, environmental destruction, and death, even as she falls more deeply in love with her husband, a man she at first hardly knew and the land that has been in his family for generations. She becomes a reluctant player in their attempt to keep the codling moth from destroying the orchard, but she and Adrian eventually come to know that their efforts will not only fail but will ultimately take an irreparable toll.”