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. Then Came You by Lisa Kleypas
2. Escape by Carolyn Jessop
3. Those Who Save Us by Jenna Blum
4. The Giver  by Lois Lowry
5. A Kingdom of Dreams  by Judith McNaught
6. Hiroshima by John Hersey
7. A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
8. The Great Influenza by John Barry
9. Reclaiming History by Vincent Bugliosi
10. Of Mice and Men  by John Steinbeck

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

Reclaiming History

Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy by Vincent Bugliosi

Initial thought upon receiving this book...Wow, this is quite daunting.

Who hasn’t heard the conspiracy theories surrounding the assassination of John F Kennedy? Many of them are so detailed and have become so mainstream that many people count them as fact. Bugliosi has done exhaustive research and put together an impressive case that these conspiracies are all wrong. Of course he has many critics, but, in my opinion his view point is very credible.

Back to my initial thought, seriously…this book is incredibly long. I really enjoyed the beginning--Bugliosi provides a minute by minute synopsis of the day of assassination.  I skimmed through the rest and read bits. I wish he could have condensed it, but I could literally feel his passion on the subject,  which I assume led to the voluminous content. 

Unfortunately I don’t think anyone will ever know with 100% certainty exactly what happened in this tragedy.  But it certainly is interesting to study and I admire and respect Bugliosi's quest to find the truth.