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. The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris
2. Eating Animals by Jonathan Foer
3. Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
4. What I Did For Love by Susan Elizabeth Phillips
5. The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
6. The Latehomecomer by Kao Kalia Yang
7. The Seven Spiritual Laws for Parents by Deepak Chopra
8. In For the Kill by John Lutz
9. Random Family by Adrian Leblanc
10. Tears of Rage by John Walsh

Eating Animals

Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer

My Rating (Out of 5 stars):

4 stars—I really liked it.

Amazon Description:

“Like many young Americans, Jonathan Safran Foer spent much of his teenage and college years oscillating between enthusiastic carnivore and occasional vegetarian. As he became a husband, and then a father, the moral dimensions of eating became increasingly important to him. Faced with the prospect of being unable to explain why we eat some animals and not others, Foer set out to explore the origins of many eating traditions and the fictions involved with creating them.”

My Thoughts:

This is a very detailed and passionate account of a carnivorous diet.  Eating animals is a subject that I remain conflicted about. In fact, I am disappointed in myself in this area, always have been.

This book was informative, without feeling “preachy.” It definitely allows the reader to self-examine.

Who Should Read?:

I recommend this to anyone interested in the modern food industry, the vegetarian or the conflicted carnivore.

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