DansDeals Book Club

[sky121]

R' Akiva Tatz wrote some phenomenal books. 2 of my favorite are Living Inspired and The Thinking Jewish Teenager's Guide to Life (which is great even for post-teenagers)

I loved Living Inspired. Read that book multiple times when I was younger.

[wayfe]

I was on a R' Tatz kick a few years ago, read his "Guide for the Thinking Jewish Teenager", "Living Inspired" download a ton of his shiurim to my iPod...

@Definitions
I was also a little turned off by the title. People looked at me strangely when they saw me reading it (it's kind of like announcing 'I'm a thinking teenager and you guys are just morons') and I took to hiding the book behind a different jacket cover.

I never got to "Letters to a Buddhist Jew", though.

Should I look into it now?

I'd also recommend Tzvi Freeman's "Heaven Exposed" which is Jewish philosophy wrapped in funny short stories.

[sky121]

Anyone have any new (or old) recommendations?

[chinagel]

anyone reading The Empty Wagon?
Riveting

[gingyguy]

anyone reading The Empty Wagon?
Riveting

all i know is they were selling in bmg for a cheaper price than what they were advertisied as selling in stores.
joke was because they were all used everyone was standing around and reading the whole day

[damaxer91]

@JewReads on Instagram is pretty cool. Relatively new account but lots of content.

[chevron]

The wandering Jew has aarrived. The samurai of vishgrod

[Azis Papa]

Katerina by Aharon Appelfeld. 

[mercaz1]

Lioness
a biography of Golda Meir

Very good read

[DTM]

If All the Seas Were Ink: A Memoir, by Ilana Kurshan.
If you have done the Daf Yomi cycle (I'm on my 4th), and are in the mood for an unconventional, albeit earnest, approach, to be taken with a grain of salt, you will enjoy this.

[elit]

If anyone likes reading about Middle Eastern/Israeli History I can make a list here.

But you must start with The Prime Ministers

only 5 years later but finally got to reading it. what a book....

[sky121]

https://cup.columbia.edu/book/kosher-usa/9780231158329

I enjoyed this a lot and found it super interesting.

[Something Fishy]

747 by Joe Sutter.

Wonderful book by the 747's chief engineer.

[damaxer91]

Refugee & Survivor by Zerach Warhaftig

Amazing story of his rescue work during the Holocaust.

[Something Fishy]

Read two vastly different books over Yom Tov.

Whether you're going to Antarctica of just have FOMO, this is an epic read:

Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing


I didn't even know that the second book existed until last week, and then I devoured it in one sitting. Must-read for anyone even remotely interested in Jewish history. It's absolutely mind-blowing in its simplicity:

The Memoirs of Gluckel of Hameln

You could see the original in Yiddish here: http://sammlungen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/mshebr/content/pageview/1557447

Some background: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gl%C3%BCckel_of_Hameln