Monday's 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 Ledge by Jim Davidson and Kevin Vaughn
2. The President’s Club by Nancy Gibbs
3. Prague Winter by Madeleine Albright
4. The Mysterious Stranger by Mark Twain
5. Smooth Talking Stranger by Lisa Kleypas
6. Hunger Games (trilogy) by Suzanne Collins
7. River of Darkness by Buddy Levy
8. The Green Mile by Stephen King
9. The Campbell Series (starts with Highland Warrior) by Monica McCarty
10. The Winters in Bloom by Lisa Tucker

The Ledge

The Ledge: An Inspirational Story of Friendship and Survival by Jim Davidson and Kevin Vaughn

Amazon Description:

“In June 1992, best friends Jim Davidson and Mike Price stood atop Washington’s Mount Rainier, celebrating what they hoped would be the first of many milestones in their lives as passionate mountaineers. Then their triumph turned tragic when a cave-in plunged them deep inside a glacial crevasse—the pitch-black, ice-walled hell of every climber’s nightmares.

An avid adventurer since youth, Davidson was a seasoned climber at the time of the Rainier ascent. But the harrowing free fall left him challenged by nature’s grandeur at its most unforgiving. Trapped on a narrow frozen shelf, deep below daylight, he desperately battled crumbling ice, snow that threatened to bury him alive, and crippling fear of the inescapable chasm below—all the while struggling to save his fatally injured friend. Finally, alone, with little equipment and rapidly dwindling hope, he confronted a fateful choice: the certainty of a slow, lonely death or the near impossibility of an agonizing climb for life. A story of heart-stopping adventure, heartfelt friendship, fleeting mortality, and implacable nature, The Ledge chronicles the elation and grief, dizzying heights and punishing depths, of a journey to hard-won wisdom.”

My Thoughts:

This was a very moving account of survival in a horrendous situation. A recommend for the memoir enthusiast…

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. Old School by Tobias Wolff
2. Being In Balance by Wayne Dyer
3. If This is a Man by Primo Levi
4. Dream a Little Dream by Susan Elizabeth Phillips
5. The Stage Dive Series (starts with Lick) by Kylie Scott
6. The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien
7. The Raven Prince by Elizabeth Hoyt
8. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
9. A World of Curiosities by John Oldale
10. The Ledge by Jim Davidson and Kevin Vaughn