Book Review - Some good old favorites

We have searched around to find out what books are new, exciting and sometimes, the must reads (just in case you haven't read for a while!). If you have a recommendation that you would like to let us know about - that book that someone just has to read - please let us know and we will publish the info for you. For February, we have decided to look at good books that came out in 2008:

Eat Pray Love - Elizabeth Gilbert

When you just don't know - all you know is "I just can't do this anymore". Elizabeth has a husband, a house, they're trying for a baby - and she doesn't want any of it. After a very bitter divorce and a turbulent love affair, she decided to change her own path. This book will lead you through Italy, where she learns to eat and speak the language of love, through India, where she finds her purpose, and into Bali, where she finds love and peace. This book will make you laugh, make you think twice - for sure one that will make you think about life, long after you closed the book.

The Shack - William P Young
Mackenzie Allen Philips’; youngest daughter, Missy, has been abducted during a family vacation and evidence that she may have been brutally murdered is found in an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness. Four years later in the midst of his Great Sadness, Mack receives a suspicious note, apparently from God, inviting him back to that shack for a weekend. Against his better judgment he arrives at the shack on a wintry afternoon and walks back into his darkest nightmare. What he finds there will change Mack's world forever. The humanity, the love and the realness of this book, is something that will surely change your life.

The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini (This is our personal favorite book of all time)

If there can be one book singled out to read during your lifetime, this is it.

It is about fathers and sons, friendship and betrayal, and the casualties of fate. In the 1970s, Afghanistan: Twelve-year-old Amir is desperate to win the local kite-fighting tournament and his loyal friend Hassan promises to help him. But neither of the boys can foresee what will happen to Hassan that afternoon, an event that is to shatter their lives. After the Russians invade and the family is forced to flee to America, Amir realises that one day he must return to an Afghanistan under Taliban rule to find the one thing that his new world cannot grant him: redemption.

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