“There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate’s loot on Treasure Island.” – Walt Disney
Here are Top 5 books to read for your next Book Club that I have read and highly recommend.
I love to read. There is just something about getting lost in a book. You live in different places, meet new people and try different foods all in the pages of a book. I skim through magazines at the Dr’s office and buy them at the airport. I have to make myself wait until I’m on the plane buckled in my seat before I will open one because if not it will be read all too fast.
What I have enjoyed about being in a book club:
About a year ago, I joined a book club and have had fun branching out a bit and reading some books that normally I may not have reached for. There is always a stack on my night stand and when one is finished you will find me immediately reaching for another…sometimes in the same night!
Joining a book club has been fun to learn what others are reading and enjoying. I really like talking about what we have read for the month and hearing everyone’s opinion. Plus, it’s fun to meet over coffee or a meal and visit for a bit. Helps you to slow down and put everything else on the back burner for awhile. I hope you enjoy these as much as I did!
This caught my attention from the very first page. I had a hard time putting it down and reading long into the night even after my husband had turned his light off. It is one that I will read more than once. Like a good movie you will probably pick up something you missed the first time through.
Description: St.Peter’s Square, Rome. White smoke signals that a new pope had been chosen. Is it possible that the new pope…is a woman?
This has lots of twists and turns that left me confused and back tracking most of the way through it. I kinda felt like it was an Inception movie. It is another that needs to be read again. It was very intriguing for sure. Send me your thoughts on this one!
Description: What if you met your twenty-three-year-old self in a dream? What would you say?
Brock Matthew’s once promising life is unraveling. His coffee company. His marriage.
So when he discovers his vivid dreams—where he encounters his younger self—might let him change his past mistakes, he jumps at the chance. The results are astonishing, but also disturbing.
Because getting what Brock wants most in the world will force him to give up the one thing he doesn’t know how to let go . . . and his greatest fear is that it’s already too late.
This one very good yet, a little heartbreaking. Pam Jenoff is a new author for me and she is a best seller of historical novels. I will definitely be ordering more of her books. Have you read any of her novels before?
Description: A powerful novel of friendship set in a traveling circus during World War II, The Orphan’s Tale introduces two extraordinary women and their harrowing stories of sacrifice and survival.
Sixteen-year-old Noa has been cast out in disgrace after becoming pregnant by a Nazi soldier and being forced to give up her baby. She lives above a small rail station, which she cleans in order to earn her keep… When Noa discovers a boxcar containing dozens of Jewish infants bound for a concentration camp, she is reminded of the child that was taken from her. And in a moment that will change the course of her life, she snatches one of the babies and flees into the snowy night.
Noa finds refuge with a German circus, but she must learn the flying trapeze act so she can blend in undetected, spurning the resentment of the lead aerialist, Astrid. At first rivals, Noa and Astrid soon forge a powerful bond. But as the facade that protects them proves increasingly tenuous, Noa and Astrid must decide whether their friendship is enough to save one another—or if the secrets that burn between them will destroy everything.
Each chapter has a little encouragement that just seems to be just what you needed for the day. Easy reading with short personal stories. I like what it says on the front: Finding what you need in a world telling you what you want. Don’t know about you, but that is something that I need!
Description: This is a book about discovering what we really need.
There are a lot of second-best options, but we weren’t made to live a second-best life. Finding what we actually need is different than what we are often offered. There are many books full of opinions, steps and programs. This isn’t one of them. This is about craving the things that matter. Things that don’t just work, but last.
In a life that may seem to be all fun and games with an endless supply of balloons, author Maria Goff shows how this life is also lived with intentional, passionate purpose, and a little planning—all of which make a life rich in legacy. But she had to figure out the help she needed first in order to live the beautiful life God wanted for her and wants for us.
Love Lives Here is a collection of stories that include the ways Maria and her husband, Bob, navigated family their way, without clear instructions or a road map. It’s about what they learned to make their lives meaningful and whimsical and how they created a space for their family to grow together while they reached outward.
Yep, I’m one of those that goes to the bookstore and looks through the pictures of rich and famous people. I love watching Jenna on the Today Show and this was a fun read. Learning more about the lives of the girls whose family was a big part of our world not too many years ago.
Description: Former first daughters and #1 bestselling authors Jenna Bush Hager and Barbara Pierce Bush share intimate stories and reflections from the Texas countryside to the storied halls of the White House and beyond.
Born into a political dynasty, Jenna and Barbara Bush grew up in the public eye. As small children, they watched their grandfather become president; just twelve years later they stood by their father’s side when he took the same oath. They spent their college years watched over by Secret Service agents and became fodder for the tabloids, with teenage mistakes making national headlines.
But the tabloids didn’t tell the whole story. In Sisters First, Jenna and Barbara take readers on a revealing, thoughtful, and deeply personal tour behind the scenes of their lives, as they share stories about their family, their unexpected adventures, their loves and losses, and the sisterly bond that means everything to them.
Leave me a comment and tell me about a book/books that you really liked and that I should read. Just not anything scary, please. I need to replenish my stack.
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