unbroken

wow wow what amazing book.what courage and what a strong person. we always have a choice. 

the book thief

I loved it. So glad that I read it.

The One Good Thing

This was a very good read. I love that I had it on my phone so I could read any time and I loved that  it made me think and I loved that we each have the power to change ourselves and help people along the way.
I would say that we live in a world where we really need to stand up to all kinds of bullys in the world.

Fire of the Covenant

I really enjoyed this book. I read it  before and after going on the trek. I had to stop for a while because I really wanted to take this book in.  I really the pioneers and what they did and how they endured  their trials. I loved reading the end notes after each chapter. I really love Gerald Lund as author. I would highly recommend this book.

Book Club

This has been my favorite read this year of 2013. I ended up getting it on my phone and I did not think that I would like to read a book this way. I ended up love reading on my phone because I could read anywhere and it was so easy to save my place and to read it on the go.
 The author did a amazing job in the details and the story I just loved it.  I loved the time period. I love how she made the characters so strong and and she delivered a great story line. I am going to be re reading this story again.

Book Club Book

At first I did not like this book. But once I got into it. I really liked it. It was about friendship. It really made me think of the great friends that I have over the years. I am so grateful for my many friends and the relationships that I have with them. I would read this book over again. The writing was excellent.

The Bone Garden

This was a book for book club and it was a great book. It was a story  that was based in the 1800's and today. It was good all the way to the end.

The Second Sun

This is the 3rd book it is so good.

Where Angels Fall

 I love these books from Chris Stewart.

The Brothers

I just got finished reading this great book. My friend Michelle suggested it and actually did not want to get out of my bed til I finished it this morning. It was great. The story line was good and the writing was excellent. It is about a family before they came to earth and the choices they made before they got here. This is the first book in the series of 7. So it will be a great summer of reading these books.

Remembering Wholeness

I just finished this book. And I loved it. If you like the book the Secret you will love this. Except it is better and it is true I love how much she put Jesus Christ in her book. What a great remembrance of him and to feel lots of love. I highly recommend this book.

Secret Daughter

I got this description from Amazon. I thought it was a great book. And I highly reccomend it.

On the eve of the monsoons, in a remote Indian village, Kavita gives birth to a baby girl. But in a culture that favors sons, the only way for Kavita to save her newborn daughter's life is to give her away. It is a decision that will haunt her and her husband for the rest of their lives, even after the arrival of their cherished son.

Halfway around the globe, Somer, an American doctor, decides to adopt a child after making the wrenching discovery that she will never have one of her own. When she and her husband, Krishnan, see a photo of the baby with the gold-flecked eyes from a Mumbai orphanage, they are overwhelmed with emotion. Somer knows life will change with the adoption but is convinced that the love they already feel will overcome all obstacles.

Interweaving the stories of Kavita, Somer, and the child that binds both of their destinies, Secret Daughter poignantly explores the emotional terrain of motherhood, loss, identity, and love, as witnessed through the lives of two families—one Indian, one American—and the child that indelibly connects them.

Dressing Your Truth

I found out about this fabulous book.  I borrowed it from Kourt and read it all in about 5 hours. 

So I did love it and I learned so much about style, energy and color.

The Total Money Makeover

I got to read this book with my sweetheart J. So it was great fun and we learned quite a bit.  He wrote the book so that anyone can read and understand it. I loved all the stories of real people that were working on the steps.

A short Guide to a Happy Life

I got this from www.bookbrowse.com 

"Life is made of moments, small pieces of silver amidst long stretches of tedium. It would be wonderful if they came to us unsummoned, but particularly in lives as busy as the ones most of us lead now, that won't happen. We have to teach ourselves now to live, really live...to love the journey, not the destination."

In this treasure of a book, Anna Quindlen, the bestselling novelist and columnist, reflects on what it takes to "get a life"--to live deeply every day and from your own unique self, rather than merely to exist through your days. "Knowledge of our own mortality is the greatest gift God ever gives us," Quindlen writes, "because unless you know the clock is ticking, it is so easy to waste our days, our lives." Her mother died when Quindlen was nineteen: "It was the dividing line between seeing the world in black and white, and in Technicolor. The lights came on for the darkest possible reason....I learned something enduring, in a very short period of time, about life. And that was that it was glorious, and that you had no business taking it for granted." But how to live from that perspective, to fully engage in our days? In A Short Guide to a Happy Life, Quindlen guides us with an understanding that comes from knowing how to see the view, the richness in living.

This book is only 50 pages with pictures but it was from to have a quick read and just think about things a little different.  I need to calm down and look at things a little bit different.

Enjoy

The Anatomy of Peace

I got this description from amazon.com

Written as an engaging story, this book shows how mistaken views can cause people to misread situations and exacerbate the issues they wish to improve. Arguing that it is only after they understand themselves and get their internal house in order that they can correctly confront external conflicts, the book shows what can be done to make that happen, and how to make inner peace a potent tool for achieving outer satisfaction.

I finished this book today which is good because book club is tomorrow and that is right the book is a thinking book . Do you have to change after reading a book for change. I think it might be helpful to take a look at ourselves with new eyes. I was glad to be opened up to this book. The diagrams I got off the net. I wanted him here so I could reference back to them.

Saving CeeCee Honeycutt

When my mother was down in the Summer she gave me this book. And I just got done with

it. It made me laugh and cry and think. I thought this was a great book. And would recommend it to anyone.

This is what it says on the back of the book.

"Twelve year old CECEE is in trouble for year she's taken care of her mother , Camille, the town's tiara-wearing, lipstick-smeared laughing stock, a woman who is trapped in her long ago moment of glory as the 1951 Vidal Onion queen."

The Help

I just finished this great book. And I highly recommend this book.
I loved the characters and I loved the way it was written. I can not

wait to see the movie it will be coming out shortly.

Book Club Book

I found this review on www.shadowmountain.com I did not read the preview book before I started reading the book.

I thought it was a good read. I liked the way she worded and did not reuse the same words at all. And Abby did not seem like a baby teenager. Just average that had plans of where she wants to go. And has other friends so she is not so needy. I would recommend this book. It is very clean and a pretty quick read.

Abby’s senior year of high school is textbook perfect: She has a handsome and attentive boyfriend, good friends, good grades, and plans to attend college next year. But when she meets Dante Alexander, a foreign-exchange student from Italy, her life suddenly takes a different turn. He’s mysterious, and interesting, and unlike anyone she’s ever met before. Abby can’t deny the growing attraction she feels for him. Nor can she deny the unusual things that seem to happen when Dante is around. Time behaves differently when they are together—traveling too fast or too slow or sometimes seeming to stop altogether.

When the band Zero Hour performs at the local hangout, Abby realizes that there’s something dangerous about the lead singer, Zo, and his band mates, Tony and V. Oddly, the three of them are also from Italy and have a strange relationship to Dante. They also hold a bizarre influence over their audience when performing. And Abby’s best friend, Valerie, is caught in their snare.

Dante tells Abby the truth of his past: he once worked for Leonardo Da Vinci, helping to design and build a time machine. When Dante was falsely implicated as a traitor to his country, he was sent through the machine more than five hundred years into the future as punishment.

As the past and the present collide, Abby learns that she holds a special power over the flow of time itself. She and Dante must stop Zo from opening the time machine’s door and endangering everyone’s future. More than one life is at stake and Abby’s choice could change everything.

Book for Book Club

This will be my picked for Book Club. I got it from my Aunt for my Birthday. And thought while I was waiting for another book from the Library I would read this. And I am glad I did.

I got this from http://www.allysoncondie.com/ website.

In the Society, Officials decide. Who you love. Where you work. When you die.

Cassia has always trusted their choices. It’s hardly any price to pay for a long life, the perfect job, the ideal mate. So when her best friend appears on the Matching screen, Cassia knows with complete certainty that he is the one… until she sees another face flash for an instant before the screen fades to black. Now Cassia is faced with impossible choices: between Xander and Ky, between the only life she’s known and a path no one else has ever dared follow — between perfection and passion.

I thought this was a great read. I did not realize when I was reading this book that it will be a trilogy. At the end you wonder if it going to end because you do not want it to end. I liked her writing style and it kept me reading.