PERSONAL THOUGHTS

“The Offering” by Angela Hunt

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“The Offering” by Angela Hunt was a good book but I did have trouble in the beginning getting into the book and I am not sure why.  In the end I really did enjoy the book but it was a slow starter for me.  I really did enjoy the authors writing and all the details she put in the book.  She didn’t put so many details that you got lost but just enough so that you understood where the characters were coming from.  Once I got into the book it was defiantly a page turn and I didn’t stop reading it until I was finished with the book.  This book was also different from other books I have read and that made it a great change from the other ones I have been reading.

About The Book

From bestselling author Angela Hunt, the heart-wrenching story of a young mother who unknowingly gave away her own child after serving as a surrogate for a childless couple.
After growing up as an only child, Amanda Lisandra wants a big family. But since she and her soldier husband can’t afford to have more children right away, Mandy decides to earn money as a gestational carrier for a childless couple. She loves being pregnant, and while carrying the child she dreams of having her own son and maybe another daughter. . .
Just when the nearly perfect pregnancy is about to conclude, unexpected tragedy enters Mandy’s world and leaves her reeling. Devastated by grief, she surrenders the child she was carrying and struggles to regain her emotional equilibrium.
Two years later she studies a photograph of the baby she bore and wonders if the unthinkable has happened—could she have inadvertently given away her own biological child? Over the next few months Mandy struggles to decide between the desires of her grief-stricken heart and what’s best for the little boy she has never known.

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About The Author

With over four million copies of her books sold worldwide,Angela Hunt is the bestselling author of more than one hundred books, including “The Nativity Story”. Hunt is one of the most sought-after collaborators in the publishing industry. Her nonfiction book “Don’t Bet Against Me”, written with Deanna Favre, spent several weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. Angela’s novel “The Note” (with sales of over 141,000) was filmed as the Hallmark Channel’s Christmas movie for 2007 and proved to be the highest rated television movie in the channel’s history. Angela’s novels have won or been nominated for several prestigious industry awards, including the RITA, the Christy Award, the ECPA Christian Book Award, and the Holt Medallion. She often travels to teach writing workshops at schools and writers’ conferences, and she served as the keynote speaker at the 2008 American Christian Fiction Writers’ national conference. She and her husband make their home in Florida with mastiffs. In 2001, one of her dogs was featured on Live with Regis and Kelly as the second-largest dog in America.
Learn more at http://www.angelahuntbooks.com

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May 2013 Favorites

May Favorites

 It is that time of the month again and here are some of the things I have loved during the month of May.

  • Here are a list of books that I have totally loved during the month of May: Catching A Falling Star, Once Upon A Prince, A Noble Groom, & The Cat That God Sent.  The review on Catch A Falling Star will go live on Tuesday the 4th of June.  If you ever are in need a good book to read let me know because I read pretty much everything.
  • I loved changing up my cell phone case’s often.  I am not sure how many I have but I have tons and I keep buying new ones because they are a good deal.  I am going to do a post in the coming weeks on all of my cases.
  • I had this in my favorites a few months ago but it is still something I use almost all day long and that is my iPod.  I love it even more since my laptop has died and I don’t have access to my music that was on there.
  • I just discovered this song at the end of the month but since I bought the song I have basically had it on repeat and it is pretty much all I listen to.  I have been loving Thrift Shop by Macklemore & Ryan Lewis.  Here is the link to the music video.   I can’t help but smile when I watch it.
  • I have been loving the new Brown Rice Baked with Sweet Potato Triscuits in the Roasted Sweet Onion flavor.  One I start eating a box I tend to eat the whole thing in just one sitting.  If you have never heard of these click here to see and read about them.

Those are some of the things I loved during the month of May.

What did you love during May?

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15 Reasons I Am Awesome

15 Reasons I Am Awesome

This week I was so excited that I could actually participate in the writers workshop and I chose to write about 15 reasons I am awesome.  I chose this one because there are times you just need to read a list of good things about yourself so it was a great way to make the a list like that.  So here it goes :

15 Reasons I Am Awesome

  1. I learn things fast.  I usually only need to be shown once maybe twice I have it down.
  2. I will do anything for just about anyone.  I love to help out when needed and I hardly ever say no.  Now this can always be a bad thing but I try to stay positive about things.
  3. I can piss off one of my cats in 5 seconds flat just by looking at her.
  4. I can always hit a curb while driving even when I think I am no were near them.
  5. I am very loyal and will stay at a job even when I know it isn’t the right place for me.
  6. Being single!
  7. Washing clothes and then just throwing them in a pile somewhere and never putting them away.
  8. Not following through with everything I say I am going to do because like I said in #2 I have a really hard time saying no.
  9. Doing the exact opposite of what someone tells me to do.
  10. Not listening to my doctors unless they say what I want to hear and I am also great at not being afraid to go to other doctors and get a second opinion.
  11. Dealing with drug & insurance companies.  For instance I get my Multiple Sclerosis medication for $10 a month instead of $6300.
  12. Talking about my experience with adoption and my experience being diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis so young.
  13. Watching the same movie 100 times and never getting tired of it.
  14. Blasting my music even when I have a headache.
  15. Getting place on time which in my world means early!

Those are some of the reasons I think I am awesome.

What makes you awesome?

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6 Random Facts~Writers Workshop

Random Facts

One of the prompts from last weeks writers workshop was to list 6 random facts about me.  Since I am not sure what I have shared and what I haven’t shared I decided I was going to ask my grandma to tell me six random things about me from when I was growing up and I would post what she said so here are her answers: (I was hoping to have pictures for most of these but I couldn’t get my scanner at home to work so there won’t be any pictures)

  1. I was probably 3 or so but she put me in a tree and took a picture of me and I wasn’t sure if I liked it or not.  I thought this was funny because I hate heights to this day so this is still so true!
  2. I loved to wash dishes when I was younger.  When she told me this I looked at her and said to bad I am not like that anymore lol
  3. There was one time when my mom dropped me off at my grandparents house that my braids were so tight that they stuck out from the side of my head like Pippi Longstockings did and mine didn’t even need wire in them!
  4. I have loved cats since I was a baby.  There are pictures of me looking at cat books and what not when I was a baby.
  5. I eat strange things such as Avocado’s, Kiwi’s, Pomegranates and things like that.  Now this isn’t weird now but back when I was in elementary school it was super weird because people didn’t eat many things like that.
  6. When I was learning to ride a bike I guess I borrowed a bike of one of the kids that lived behind us at the time.  Well his older sister came to get the bike and I was pissed off because he said I could borrow it.  Well as she was leaving I yelled out this out the door at her “You’re a butt head and your whole family is a butt head!”  I still laugh when she tells me about this because it just so me and who I am.

So those are the 6 random facts about me that my grandma told me!

Mama’s Losin’ It

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A Trend I Don’t Understand

Crazy Fashion Trends

Last week for the writers workshop one of the prompts was about a trend I don’t understand.  So when I think of trends that are going on right now all I can think of is the shirts that look like you are wearing old drapes or an old couch that could be found in someones attic.

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I mean who in the heck wants to walk around looking like you are wearing a couch???  I have never been one to follow what the trend is or anything like that but these last few years I haven’t seen anything for the most part that I would actually wear.

I was looking at trends for Spring 2013 and I saw that people are wearing things that make you you look fat???  How does that work?  I mean why in the heck would I want to wear something like this:

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I don’t think I need clothes to make myself look fatter thanks though!  I don’t how clothes like this are flattering at all for anyone.   I am also sure that most people don’t put on their clothes hoping to be fatter or at least I don’t that is for sure.

Do you like either of these fashion trends?  Would you wear them? What trends can’t you stand?

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It Happened At The Fair by Deeanne Gist

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My Review

I loved this book from the moment I started it until the moment I finished it. I fell in love with the characters and the authors way of telling the story. I loved how I felt like I was there and how I could understand what the characters were feeling.  I really wanted everything to work out for Cullen because he really had so much to lose if it didn’t work out for him.  I have always been interested in this time period and I really loved this book and can’t wait to check out more by her soon!

About The Book

A transporting historical novel about a promising young inventor, his struggle with loss, and the attractive teacher who changes his life, all set against the razzle-dazzle of the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair.

Gambling everything, including the family farm, Cullen McNamara travels to the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair with his most recent invention. But the noise in the Fair’s Machinery Palace makes it impossible to communicate with potential buyers. In an act of desperation, he hires Della Wentworth, a teacher of the deaf, to tutor him in the art of lip-reading.

The young teacher is reluctant to participate, and Cullen has trouble keeping his mind on his lessons while intently watching her lips. Like the newly invented Ferris Wheel, he is caught in a whirl between his girl back home, his dreams as an inventor, and his unexpected attraction to his new tutor. Can he keep his feet on the ground, or will he be carried away?

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About The Author

Deeanne Gist—known to her family, friends, and fans as Dee—has rocketed up bestseller lists and captured readers everywhere with her very fun, very original historicals. She has received numerous RITA nominations, two consecutive Christy Awards, and rave reviews. Deeanne has a background in education and journalism and a degree from Texas A&M. She has written for “People,” “Parents,” and “Parenting.” She lives in Houston, Texas, with her husband and has four grown children. She has a very active online community on her website at IWantHerBook.com.

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