I filled a bowl with roasted cauliflower and Brussels sprouts before topping the vegetables with a chopped tomato and a MorningStar Farms Grillers veggie burger.
I loved the contrast of the hot burger and roasted vegetables with the cold, crisp tomato slices.
On the side I also had a cup of strawberry Greek yogurt for some additional sweetness and protein.
May Book Club
Time to select the book for the month of May for the PBF Book Club!
For those who may be new around here, the book club is open to anyone and everyone! We simply vote on a book from the books listed below. I will then post my review of the chosen book on June 1 along with discussion questions that book club participants then discuss in the comments section of the post.
Also, if you are a blogger and post a review of the selected book on your blog before June 1, please email me at pbfingers@gmail.com and let me know so I can be sure to include your review in the link up of book reviews that will be included in that post as well.
So let’s get to it!
Please vote on the book you would most like to read below. (As always, the following books were taken from your recommendations on the PBF Facebook page.) I will announce the winning book on Monday.
On Friday, June 1 I’ll post my review of the book along with discussion questions for us to talk about in the comments section of the post.
The contenders for the month of May include…
- Insurgent by Veronica Roth
New York Times bestselling author Veronica Roth’s much-anticipated second book of the dystopian Divergent series is another intoxicating thrill ride of a story, rich with hallmark twists, heartbreaks, romance, and powerful insights about human nature.
One choice can transform you—or it can destroy you. But every choice has consequences, and as unrest surges in the factions all around her, Tris Prior must continue trying to save those she loves—and herself—while grappling with haunting questions of grief and forgiveness, identity and loyalty, politics and love.
Tris’s initiation day should have been marked by celebration and victory with her chosen faction; instead, the day ended with unspeakable horrors. War now looms as conflict between the factions and their ideologies grows. And in times of war, sides must be chosen, secrets will emerge, and choices will become even more irrevocable—and even more powerful. Transformed by her own decisions but also by haunting grief and guilt, radical new discoveries, and shifting relationships, Tris must fully embrace her Divergence, even if she does not know what she may lose by doing so.
- Those Who Save Us by Jenna Blum
For fifty years, Anna Schlemmer has refused to talk about her life in Germany during World War II. Her daughter, Trudy, was only three when she and her mother were liberated by an American soldier and went to live with him in Minnesota. Trudy’s sole evidence of the past is an old photograph: a family portrait showing Anna, Trudy, and a Nazi officer, the Obersturmfuhrer of Buchenwald.
Driven by the guilt of her heritage, Trudy, now a professor of German history, begins investigating the past and finally unearths the dramatic and heartbreaking truth of her mother’s life.
Combining a passionate, doomed love story, a vivid evocation of life during the war, and a poignant mother/daughter drama, Those Who Save Us is a profound exploration of what we endure to survive and the legacy of shame.
- Still Missing by Chevy Stevens
On the day she was abducted, Annie O’Sullivan, a thirty-two-year-old Realtor, had three goals: sell a house, forget about a recent argument with her mother, and be on time for dinner with her ever-patient boyfriend. The open house is slow, but when her last visitor pulls up in a van as she’s about to leave, Annie thinks it just might be her lucky day after all. Interwoven with the story of the year Annie spent captive in a remote mountain cabin — which unfolds through sessions with her psychiatrist — is a second narrative recounting the nightmare that follows her escape: her struggle to piece her shattered life back together, the ongoing police investigation into the identity of her captor, and the disturbing sense that things are far from over.
The truth doesn’t always set you free. Still Missing is a shocking, visceral, brutal, and beautifully crafted debut novel about surviving the unsurvivable — and living to bear witness.
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Woo! I haven’t read Divergent yet, so if Insurgent wins, I’ll have some catching up to do…
I will be in the same boat. 🙂
Ahhhh…..too many good choices! I’ve actually been wanting to read all 3 of them 🙂
I always love voting for the next book club selection! I still need to read Divergent – I’ve got it on hold at the library – and I’ve heard great things about it. Can’t wait to see what everyone chooses!
Decisions, decisions….I agree with the above comment, if Insurgent wins, I’ll have to read both….but I’m not mad about it 🙂
I have read Those Who Save Us before. It is a really good book!
I’m already going to read Insurgent so I thought voting for Those Who Save Us will get me out of my distopia rut! Haha.
Yes! I wanted to get started reading that but was waiting to see what this month’s book selection would be..
I meant to reply to Mel about 50 Shades of Grey below…Oops!
Insurgent!!! Next month you should pick Fifty Shades of Grey…although all of the sex may be embarrassing to discuss!! haha. It is a really really good book though with a good plot
All of them sound really good!
I just started Insurgent and just like the first book, I am going through it quickly. After just one gym sesh of cardio, I was nearly 1/2 finished! I highly recommend to start this book!
So excited to see Insurgent is on the list! Even though it’s losing right now :/
Insurgent all the way! Have been wanting to read it 🙂
I want to read them all!! But FIRST, I must finish Divergent!
Such good picks! I will eventually get around to Those Who Save Us and Divergent.
I’m so excited ot see Insurgent on this list! I saw that it just came out, and can’t wait to start reading it!
I love roasted veggies so much … that meal looks awesome! I’m making vegetarian chili in the slow cooker for dinner tonight … it smells so good! 😉
insurgent~ it’s on the way from Amazon
dystopians are making their comeback just like boy bands are 🙂 can anyone say One Direction?
daaang still missing sounds really creepy! got goosebumps from the summary of the book
i read those who save us and it is SO GOOD
currently reading insurgent and loving it!
Those Who Save Us!
I just downloaded insurgent to my kindle on release day….so that’s my vote! Those Who Save Us was good but I read it six months ago (my second kindle
book after Divergent.). I could recall some details to discuss though.
I started a book club at the hospital lab where I am a tech…. meeting Tuesday the 8th….we are anal lab techs so are ultra organized about everything down to the food! The Girl With The Pearl Earring was our first pic.
Those Who Save Us is fantastic! I do have to read Insurgent (since I finished Divergent a few months ago), but I’d love to have an excuse to re-read TWSU. lol
Just a heads up, I’ve read insurgent already and while it’s a GREAT read, you definitely need to read divergent first to know what’s going on. So for any of your readers that haven’t read it they would have to read the first one really fast or be left out of the book club this month
Thanks for the recommendations – I’m heading to the library tomorrow! And yes, I’m probably the only one on this planet that still goes to the library and doesn’t have a Nook, Kindle or iPad:)
No actually you aren’t. 🙂 I went to the library last night too and picked up “Still Missing” since it seems to be ahead. There is a huge wait on the the Roth books. 🙂
I have a Kindle and I still go to the library constantly! I’m all about free books 🙂
I want to read all of these now! I read Divergent, based on your recommendation and am so excited for Insurgent!!
I ABSOUTELY LOVE LOVE LOVE THAT YOU DO THIS! It is something I will definitely be doing some day… I have been trying to start a book club locally – but I love the idea of the having my blog readers join in the fun! Woo hoo! I’m sad that the one I chose is losing… and if the first one wins, I’d have some serious speed reading to do!
I love this book club idea. I just finished Insurgent this mornign and it was AMAZING! I highly suggest it.
I have read Still Missing – loved it! I would like to read Those Who Save Us. For some reason lately I am really drawn to books with a WW II theme.
Is it bad that I’m still hung up on The Hunger Games? It’s like a bad break up where I’m not sure there will be another book out there for me!
I recently started Still Missing. So far it’s really good and it’s only $2.99 on kindle!
Trust me, even if Insurgent doesnt win, you need to read it. I had it done in 2 days and its a GREAT read! LOVED it!
I loved Insurgent!! It’s a similar storyline as The Hunger Games, but different setting. Four is the new Peeta : )
All three of those books sound awesome! I love your blog and can’t wait to finally participate in the book club!
Just bought insurgent. Couldn’t help myself (I looooooved Divergent) but I’ll probably end up reading all of those books some time this summer. They look right up my alley!
OMG INSURGENT IS OUT?!!?!? I’m reading that book NOW no matter what hahaha.
I am jazzed about Still Missing even though I am a thirty-two year old Realtor! It might kind of freak me out. : )
I read Still Missing and it scared the crap out of me. There is a really horrible (in my mind) tape scene in the beginning that really was hard ho read because her story is not so far fetched and it could happen to any if us.
Still Missing is really graphic especially with the rape scene. I couldn’t get through the book. Just an FYI.
I got STILL MISSING last night and finished it this afternoon. OMG
I devoured STILL MISSING in less than two days. Wow.