Change

most of my friends know that i absolutely hate change...so of course it doesn't help that i've had a mirgraine for a week, a sore throat for 5 days, an upset stomach for 2 days and sinus trouble for 4 days...you can imagine how much i just love what facebook has done...NOT!!!

add to all this some other crap has surfaced to only annoy me more. i really hate blogging only to bitch but it's what my muse is whispering to me, venting is a good thing...hopefully i'll get back on track and think positive...maybe i need a cupcake, chocolate doesn't seem to be working...

Sundays with books

Yes, I promised myself I would "blog" about a book a week, mainly in an effort to get myself to write more, not that writing is a chore but I don't make the time to write, I let outside influences affect me. And yes, that is what happened yesterday, I was a bit depressed and not feeling too good so I didn't do a book.

Maybe next week...

Ella Enchanted

I picked this book to honor my niece Ella’s birthday, omg, I can’t believe she’s 5 years old!



Ella of Frell is given the gift of obedience by a fairy named Lucinda. Of course the fairy thinks it’s a perfectly wonderful gift. Through her life Ella learns to deal with her gift and has to make difficult choices. But in the end as in every good fairy tale it ends happily.

It’s a different kind of Cinderella story, not at all like the movie of the same name.

Riptide

This was the first book I read by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. It got my attention because of a program on A&E about treasures and pirates. This story is based a bit in the theory that there is a treasure pit on an island off the New England coast.

This story begins with the tragic loss of a child witnessed by his brother, years later the brother is asked to go back to the island and help find the "treasure".

Preston and Child are marvelous writers and this book is the best place to start.

Mister God, This is Anna

Mister God, This is Anna- Mister God, This Is Anna is a book by Sydney Hopkins under the pseudonym "Fynn" describing the adventures of Anna, a mischievous yet wise four year-old who Fynn finds as a runaway. Nineteen-year-old Fynn takes Anna home to his mother who takes her in, though Fynn becomes Anna's main caretaker and closest friend. Fynn recounts his time spent with Anna, and gives a very personal account of her outpourings on life, mathematics, science and her mentor, Mister God.


The story begins on the streets of East End London in the mid-1930s. While roaming the docks at night, the author comes across a small girl sitting on the grating below a shop window. He sits down next to her, and from that moment on, his life is never the same. Unable to find out where she came from, Fynn takes the child home, only to discover she is an abused runaway. She spends her next three years as Fynn's inseparable companion.

The book gives an account of their friendship. Anna by nature is the inquisitor, the forever probing creature who likes to find a rhyme and reason for everything. Fynn being the student, has the task of having to follow her hard-to-understand, yet simple logic.

I am blessed to have a mother who loves to read, she gave me this book. I fell in love with Anna and Fynn. It was books like this and others, Dibs: In Search of Self, that led me to studying elementary education in college (my AA/AS are in education).



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mister_God,_This_Is_Anna

so disappointed

high expectations always lead to terrible hard crashes...i thought someone was over the disaster he created of his life but no, he's right back in it again. he's a lost cause and does not deserve any bright and shiny moments ever again. whatever happens is his own fault, he doesn't want good things he wants to be an asswiping douchwaffle....

Random Acts of Kindness

"Random acts of kindness are those little sweet or grand lovely things we so for no reason except that, momentarily, the best of our humanity has sprung, exquisitely, into full bloom."

This book is filled with wonderful stories and sayings that inspire you to do just that, a random act of kindness...

If we could all do one random act of kindess a day what a wonderous world we would live in...