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A Reader's
Delight
By Mona Lease
Hi, all!! People are being told to evacuate Hawaii...lava is flowing in
the streets. Wildfires burn out of control and people in California are
being told they cannot travel to Oklahoma. Trump talks with China's
Prefect are on and off and on...geesh! With this in mind...for you
readers out there...choose a good book and an iced tea. Happy perusing,
ya'll!!
50 Books to Read Before You're 50
Little Women: Louisa May Alcott
The Five People You Meet in Heaven: Mitch Albom
The Handmaid's Tale: Margaret Alwood
You'll Grow Out of It: Jessi Klein
Think and Grow Rich: Napoleon Hill
A Prayer for Owen Meany: John Irving
The Alchemist: Paulo Coelho
To Kill a Mockingbird: Harper Lee
The Poisonwood Bible: Barbara Kingsolver
Shibumi: Trevanian
The Goldfinch: Donna Tart
The Diary of a Young Girl: Anne Frank
Gone With the Wind: Margaret Mitchell
Lord of the Flies: William Golding
A Man Called Ove: Fredrick Backman
Wild: Cheryl Strayed
The Glass Castle: Jeanette Walls
Jane Eyre: Charlotte Bronte
The Grapes of Wrath: John Steinbeck
The Outsiders: S.E. Hinton
1984, Animal Farm: George Orwell
Pride and Prejudice: Jane Austen
Evicted: Matthew Desmond
Freakonomics: Steven R. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
Man's Search For Meaning: Viktor E. Frankl
Unbearable Lightness of Being: Milan Kundera
The Sparrow: Mary Doria Russell
Brave New World: Aldous Huxley
Cutting For Stone: Abraham Verghese
Life of Pi: Yann Martel
Between the World and Me: Ta-Nehisi Coates
Where'd You Go, Bernadette?: Marla Semple
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night: Marle Haddon
Catch 22: Joseph Heller
As I Lay Dying: William Falkner
The Quiet American: Graham Greene
Profile's Eye: R.J. Palacio
Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao: Junot Diaz
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn: Betty Smith
The Catcher in the Rye: J.D. Salinger
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone: J.K. Rowling
The Hunger Games: Suzanne Collins
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lack: Rebecca Skloot
Memoirs of a Geisha: Arthur Golden
America: Jon Stewart
The Help: Kathryn Stockett
Emergency, This Book Will Save Your Life: Neil Strauss
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: Robert B. Pirsig
Digging to America: Anne Tyler - Reader's Digest
40 Things You Should Never Say to Your Kid
You don't feel that
way.
You're fat.
Stop
crying.
I could do that when I was your age.
Be a big boy/big
girl.
Why didn't you get an A?
You're
selfish.
You don't mean that.
Don't be a
wimp.
My house, my rules.
You're making me
sad.
That happened to me and I'm ok.
Why can't you be more like your sibling? You're
perfect.
Stop
overreacting.
You're the man of the house.
You're
ok.
Be a good girl.
I can't say no to that
face. All your
stuff is mine.
You're
lazy.
Finish your food.
That's not good
enough.
Don't make me repeat myself.
You're
ungrateful.
You're the most beautiful.
Stop acting like a
baby.
You can do better.
Practice makes
perfect.
I'm mad at you.
I do everything for
you.
I'm not mad, just disappointed.
You're doing that
wrong.
Do I look fat?
You should be
ashamed.
Because I said so.
Calm
down.
I'll give you something to cry about.
You're just like your Mother/Father.
I wish you'd never been born. - Best Life
Remember the kiddies and our service people. Take good care of the
furry and feathered ones out there. Be safe and healthy. See ya next
time. Ever Toodles!!! MONA
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