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The CJN asked readers to send us recommendations of their favorite books.
Here are some of the suggestions we received. Keep your eye out in future issues of the CJN for more readers’ rave reviews.
if you’ve read a great book you want to tell us about, don’t be shy! Follow the format on this page, and send it to city editor Margi Herwald Zitelli at mherwald@cjn.org. Check out the CJN’s reader recommendation wish list on Amazon.com under the e-mail address editorial@cjn.org.
MY NAME IS: Faye Reuven
of Mayfield Heights
I RECOMMEND: Motor Mouth by Janet Evanovich (HarperCollins Publishers, 2006)
THE STORY: The second in Evanovich’s Alexandra Barnaby series sees “Barney” and her unfaithful NASCAR racer lover trying to solve a murder.
YOU SHOULD READ IT BECAUSE: It’s hilarious, fast-reading fiction that’s hard to put down.
LENGTH: 320 pages
PRICE: $26.95
MY NAME IS: Doug Guth of Cleveland Heights
I RECOMMEND: The Ruins by Scott Smith (Knopf Publishing Group, 2006)
THE STORY: Four college grads go to Mexico for vacation and encounter a horrific fate.
YOU SHOULD READ IT BECAUSE: It’s one of the best horror novels of the last five years, intense and visceral. You really care about the characters, which in any novel, is the most important thing.
LENGTH: 336 pages
PRICE: $24.95
MY NAME IS: Marcia Krause of Beachwood
I RECOMMEND: Finding God in the Questions: A Personal Journey by Dr. Timothy Johnson (InterVarsity Press, 2006)
THE STORY: Dr. Johnson (ABC News medical editor and an assisting minister) examines the question “Where is God?” The things he says about Jesus are surprising, and he shows Jesus demonstrating deep devotion by going to Jewish homes and partaking in Jewish culture.
YOU SHOULD READ IT BECAUSE: This is an excellent, informative book that gives medical advice for the soul. I am a Holocaust survivor, and I became an agnostic after the war. I feel as if the book were written for me. It is for Jews and non-Jews.
LENGTH: 240 pages
PRICE: $15
MY NAME IS: David Apple of Cleveland
I RECOMMEND: Suite Française by Irene Nemirovsky (Knopf Publishing Group, 2007)
THE STORY: Némirovsky died at Auschwitz in August 1942. This book tells of Germany’s conquering France and occupying the land and of the humiliation felt by French residents. It relates the horrors of war on both sides. There are (fictional) stories of Germans falling in love with French girls, the exodus from French villages, and people walking for miles on end to some place of refuge.
YOU SHOULD READ IT BECAUSE: Némirovsky’s daughters located this manuscript after their parents were killed by the Nazis, and after 64 years, they made arrangements for its translation and publication. It is a masterwork and a literary treasure.
LENGTH: 431 pages
PRICE: $14.95
MY NAME IS: Ruth Sicherman of Shaker Heights
I RECOMMEND: Rise and Shine by Anna Quindlen (Random House, 2006)
THE STORY: The novel is about two sisters in New York n one a prominent television personality, and one a social worker at a women’s shelter. After the famous sister is accidentally overheard making a disparaging comment about a politician in the wake of 9/11, both women are thrown into personal and professional upheaval.
YOU SHOULD READ IT BECAUSE: It’s a witty and intelligent story. Quindlen really knows both areas the two sisters inhabit.
LENGTH: 288 pages
PRICE: $24.95
Here are some of the suggestions we received. Keep your eye out in future issues of the CJN for more readers’ rave reviews.
if you’ve read a great book you want to tell us about, don’t be shy! Follow the format on this page, and send it to city editor Margi Herwald Zitelli at mherwald@cjn.org. Check out the CJN’s reader recommendation wish list on Amazon.com under the e-mail address editorial@cjn.org.
MY NAME IS: Faye Reuven
of Mayfield Heights
I RECOMMEND: Motor Mouth by Janet Evanovich (HarperCollins Publishers, 2006)
THE STORY: The second in Evanovich’s Alexandra Barnaby series sees “Barney” and her unfaithful NASCAR racer lover trying to solve a murder.
YOU SHOULD READ IT BECAUSE: It’s hilarious, fast-reading fiction that’s hard to put down.
LENGTH: 320 pages
PRICE: $26.95
MY NAME IS: Doug Guth of Cleveland Heights
I RECOMMEND: The Ruins by Scott Smith (Knopf Publishing Group, 2006)
THE STORY: Four college grads go to Mexico for vacation and encounter a horrific fate.
YOU SHOULD READ IT BECAUSE: It’s one of the best horror novels of the last five years, intense and visceral. You really care about the characters, which in any novel, is the most important thing.
LENGTH: 336 pages
PRICE: $24.95
MY NAME IS: Marcia Krause of Beachwood
I RECOMMEND: Finding God in the Questions: A Personal Journey by Dr. Timothy Johnson (InterVarsity Press, 2006)
THE STORY: Dr. Johnson (ABC News medical editor and an assisting minister) examines the question “Where is God?” The things he says about Jesus are surprising, and he shows Jesus demonstrating deep devotion by going to Jewish homes and partaking in Jewish culture.
YOU SHOULD READ IT BECAUSE: This is an excellent, informative book that gives medical advice for the soul. I am a Holocaust survivor, and I became an agnostic after the war. I feel as if the book were written for me. It is for Jews and non-Jews.
LENGTH: 240 pages
PRICE: $15
MY NAME IS: David Apple of Cleveland
I RECOMMEND: Suite Française by Irene Nemirovsky (Knopf Publishing Group, 2007)
THE STORY: Némirovsky died at Auschwitz in August 1942. This book tells of Germany’s conquering France and occupying the land and of the humiliation felt by French residents. It relates the horrors of war on both sides. There are (fictional) stories of Germans falling in love with French girls, the exodus from French villages, and people walking for miles on end to some place of refuge.
YOU SHOULD READ IT BECAUSE: Némirovsky’s daughters located this manuscript after their parents were killed by the Nazis, and after 64 years, they made arrangements for its translation and publication. It is a masterwork and a literary treasure.
LENGTH: 431 pages
PRICE: $14.95
MY NAME IS: Ruth Sicherman of Shaker Heights
I RECOMMEND: Rise and Shine by Anna Quindlen (Random House, 2006)
THE STORY: The novel is about two sisters in New York n one a prominent television personality, and one a social worker at a women’s shelter. After the famous sister is accidentally overheard making a disparaging comment about a politician in the wake of 9/11, both women are thrown into personal and professional upheaval.
YOU SHOULD READ IT BECAUSE: It’s a witty and intelligent story. Quindlen really knows both areas the two sisters inhabit.
LENGTH: 288 pages
PRICE: $24.95
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