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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

Ten Degrees of Reckoning

Ten Degrees of Reckoning: A True Story of Survival by Hester Rumberg

My Rating (Out of 5 Stars):

4 stars—I was really moved.

Amazon Description:

“In 1993, Judith and Michael Sleavin and their two children set out to sail around the world. Three years into their incredible journey, a nearby freighter altered its course by a mere ten degrees-and everything changed...

After forty-four hours in the icy water clinging to an overturned dinghy, her back broken and paralyzed below the waist, Judith miraculously survived, winding up in a small community on the New Zealand coast. Gripping, unbelievable yet true, Judith's story of courage, survival, and retribution is alternately heartrending and uplifting. It's also a story of unbreakable bonds, of shattering loss, and of one woman reborn through the strength of friendship and the profound love of strangers who became family.”

My Thoughts:

What a heartbreaking account of unlikely survival and bone crushing loss. I cannot imagine the magnitude of Hester Rumberg’s grief. You could feel the emotion in her words.

Who Should Read?

A definite recommend for the memoir crowd.

Monday Recommendations (On Tuesday!)

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. Fatelessness by Imre Kertesz
2. Lady Be Good by Susan Elizabeth Phillips
3. Guts Kristen Johnston
4. The Chimps of Fauna Sanctuary by Andrew Westoll
5. The Mysterious Stranger by Mark Twain
6. Handle With Care by Jodi Picoult
7. Don’t Know Much About the Bible by Kenneth Davis
8. Game Change by John Heilemann
9. Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer
10. Ten Degrees of Reckoning by Hester Rumberg