Recommendations; Mary, Mom and Jan, Karen, Mary Lou

Most everyone that knows me knows that I love to read, and I am always looking for good books to read. I love hearing what other book clubs are reading and I keep another journal that I write down the books that I have read outside of our book club lists.

Here are a few books that have I have read recently that were friends recommendations;

My daughter Mary gave me a great summer read, a thriller that's both heart-stopping and heart-breaking....


Mom and Jan's book club recently read:


I had heard about this book, but thought it sounded goofy, ....but I loved this story, Have you ever wondered what your dog is thinking? Meet one funny dog—Enzo, the lovable mutt who tells this story.  I recommend it to everyone!

Mary Lou shared a great book with me: loved it!

Leopold Bloom King, our narrator, is the son of an amiable, loving father who teaches science at the local high school. His mother, an ex-nun, is the high school principal and a well-known Joyce scholar. After Leo's older brother commits suicide at the age of thirteen, the family struggles with the shattering effects of his death, and Leo, lonely and isolated, searches for something to sustain him. Eventually, he finds his answer when he becomes part of a tightly knit group of high school seniors whose liaisons will ripple across two decades — from 1960s through the 1980s.


Karen's book club read:

Don Miller issues a simple and profound challenge: live a better story.  In A Million Miles in a Thousand Years Don opens up his life, struggles, triumphs, and insecurities and asks the reader to do that. Some pearls of wisdom in his writings, but sometimes rambling on too much.