To Kill a Mockingbird...

   

"Hey, Boo..."

Yay! A school book I [mostly] enjoyed! Book One kinda bored me, but I still enjoyed it. I'm not a big fan of description-especially over 100 pages of it...

Book Two was great! The characters developed soo much more. I loved each one- even the ones you weren't supposed to!

I wanted to rip Atticus out of the book and just sit and talk with him. And I would love to have Boo as my neighbor!

I also enjoyed the first-person narration. It was a new perspective that i would't have gained if it was told in third-person.

Bekah Grace

I'd like to wish a happy birthday to my amaaazing cousin Rebekah...

Visit her blog here

Happy Birthday Bekah!

Catcher in the Rye

"People never notice anything..."

Okay, I understand this is just Holden talking to a therapist,and it's one of the greatest pieces of American Literature,

but come on.

Nothing happened! I only liked the end with his sister. Otherwise, I wasn't much of a Holden fan. I guess if he was a bit more crazy, I would have been more interested, but initially, I didn't realize that there was anything wrong with him in the first place. Maybe a more interesting plotline and more than one well-developed character? I don't know... just my thoughts...

Pride and Prejudice...

 

I have to start with one of my favorite books of all time. it just happens to be one of the first books i read this year...

"You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you..."-Mr. Darcy

I want a Mr. Darcy-awkward, funny, stuck-up, antisocial, charming, confused and altogether lovely. You can't help but love him! Even though he's an aristocratic snob, you adore him.

Elizabeth is another perfect character-soo easy to relate to. She comes from an average [but hilarious!] middle-ish class family. She has no spectacular talent. She's average...or, according to some, "barely tolerable", oh, Darcy!

You cannot help but fall in love with the Bennet Family! Funny and loving Mr. Bennet, crazy and marriage-obsessed Mrs. Bennet, sweet and quiet Jane, strange and ignored Mary, young and naive Lydia, and younger and energetic Kitty. They provide ninety percent of the humor of the book.

The book is a perfect balance of everything. You have romance with the Bennet girls. You have the mystery behind Mr. Wickham, Georgiana, Darcy, and Mr. Bingley. You have the humor from the Bennets and the awkwardness from Mr. Collins. Everything is perfectly balanced.

It's in 3rd person. So, of course, i spent most of my time yelling at the characters when their perception of a situation was wrong. When Mr. Collins was proposing to Elizabeth, i told him not to waste his time. When Jane was upset over Bingley, I told her that everything was going to be okay. I told Elizabeth she was stupid and just postponing the inevitable when she refused Darcy's proposal. I was very involved. From the first sentence, Jane Austen had me in their world.

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Books...

so, I've decided to add something new to this little blog thing I've got goin' on...

if there was only one activity I could do for the rest of my life...

it would be to read.

i love books. they are a chance to jump into someone else's mind, into someone else's world. when you open a book, your worries, your stress, your thoughts, your world just...disappears. and you are thrown into a new place, that contains new worries, new thoughts, new emotions. the characters reach out and grab you, pull you into their world.

you laugh with them. 

you cry with them.

 you worry when they worry. 

you are happy when they are happy. 

when they are troubled, or sad, or mourning, you want so badly to reach out and comfort them. to let them know that the story does end. and with a few page turns the pain will be over.

i love it when a book pulls me in so much, that i literally audibly react to the story. 

i laugh. i yell. i comfort. i scream. i cry. i whisper. 

i tell the characters that its going to be okay. i let them know when i don't like what they're doing. i laugh when something is funny and i cry when something moves me.

and i love it.

so. 

Maybe once a week or so, I'll have a day where I'll post on a book that i recently read. kinda like a book review. but mainly just a place to record my thoughts. I'll enjoy it. hopefully you will to :]

thoughts??

Sping Dreams...

i have to admit...i'm not a big spring fan...

all the bugs

and its warm, sometimes too warm...

but after seeing Ruche's Spring Lookbook, i kinda want a little spring...

First off, their stuff is AMAZING!!....just sayin'

I love the way the sun looks...

warm and comfy [but not too warm ;)]

"Spring makes its own statement, so loud and clear that the gardener seems to be only one of the instruments, not the composer."  ~Geoffrey B. Charlesworth

"Spring shows what God can do with a drab and dirty world."  ~Virgil A. Kraft

"The day the Lord created hope was probably the same day he created Spring."  ~Bern Williams

"Now every field is clothed with grass, and every tree with leaves; now the woods put forth their blossoms, and the year assumes its gay attire."  ~Virgil

"And Spring arose on the garden fair,

Like the Spirit of Love felt everywhere;

And each flower and herb on Earth's dark breast

rose from the dreams of its wintry rest."

~Percy Bysshe Shelley

Happy Spring to you all!!!!

random edit :]

haha... i saw this and couldn't resist :]

ALSO

[please hold your applause]

My cousin Rebekah...

[from this post and this post]

HAS HER OWN BLOG...

See for yourself:

http://bekahgracephotos.blogspot.com/