Surrender!

Y'all I loved this book. It was another one that I made myself savor; I read about a chapter a week so that I could really let what he was writing sink in. I hope that some of it did. I am a big sharer of books. But this one will not be leaving my grubby paws. I want to be able to read and reread it!

On to what it's all about. This was written by Fr  Larry Richards. He is a tell it to you like it is sorta guy. This book is all about trying to live God's will for your life. He discusses loving your neighbor and helps give some feedback on how to do this. {Doesn't it seem like there is always one person in your life who just gets under your skin. Boy did I need this. :).} Anyway he always gives "homework" to practice putting these new practices into your everyday life. I think that's a lot of the reason I loved it.   In the end he gets to how to listen for Gods will and doing it!

Y'all this was good!  I definitely recommend it!

Read: August/September 2012
Pages: 144

bittersweet

As soon as I finished 11/22/63, I picked up this book and it was really, really hard for me to put down.  When I read Shauna Niequist's other book, Cold Tangerines, I wanted to savor the book.  Because the last book I read took for.ever, I wanted to read this one as quickly as I could.  Each chapter was a short sweet little vignette so it made reading it quickly super easy.

Shauna's {do you like how I address her by first name, as if we are bff...} books are kinda like little memoirs.  Which are one of my favorite sorts of books {Krissy, you most likely won't enjoy her books  ;)}.

This particular book is about a difficult season in her life and what she has learned from it.  She says that a friend once told her that Christianity is a story of death and rebirth, over and over again.  At that time she had not had big heartbreak, so it didn't really resonate with her.  But after the events that happen in her life which she shares in this story, she wholeheartedly agrees.  As do I.

Maybe I really liked this because I have had some experiences very, very similar to hers.  Maybe it's because I too was in a dark season recently and I had to do what she did.  Learn that life is bittersweet.  Even in struggle, there are moments of sweetness.  That is what gets us through.

If you have ever been heartbroken for whatever reason, you may enjoy this book.  I feel like you need to have lived a little life to appreciate her stories.  A young one just starting out may not connect to it yet.

Read: September 2012
Pages:  256

11/22/63

Wow!  It has been awhile since I updated the blog....but this was a really loooooooong book.  This the the September book for book club.  Happily I have finished it with a little time left to get on some more of the books on my list.

Anyway, this is about a man who can time travel back to 1958.  He goes back to try to save JFK from being assassinated.  I thought that maybe this was going to be hokey because I am not really into stuff like time travel and honestly not really into the whole JFK thing.  But y'all this was a good one.  I was telling my husband it must be really good because usually a book that is 850 pages I give up about 400-600 pages in and just skim the rest.  This one kept me going for weeks and weeks.  (Unfortunately I just don't get lots of time to read...)

The ending is really good and makes you think about life and the butterfly effect that our actions have.  If I liked horror, I think that I would really like Stephen King.  I liked his style of writing.

Another fun tidbit there was a nonchalant mention of The Reliable Wife.  Love it!

Pages:  849
Read:  August 2012