Tuck Everlasting by: Natalie Babbit

This book is short but like every book I LOVED IT! This book is about a young teenage girl named Winnie Foster, who discovers at least a hundred year old secret. The Tuck family when they moved there, found a spring in a tree. they all drank from it. Later one of the boys fell from a high tree and must have at least broken a few bones, but he hopped up unhurt. turns out they are immortal. Jesse Tuck tries to convince Winnie to dink the water at the age Jesse drank it at so they can be 17 forever together. I do enjoy the movie, if you watch the Disney version, I know the man (Jonathan Jackson) who plays Jesse :). So, great book + great movie, = Amazing story!
-Caroline

School Reads Collection 2019

School Reads:
The School Reads Collection is my reviews of my assigned school reading. As the school year goes on I will continue to add to my School Reads collection. This year we are studying ancient history, so the books will be about greek gods, ancient heroes, and even a saint's voyage. I will (if I remember) continue with my regular book reviews, and these will be add ons.
Enjoy these special reviews!
-Caroline

Between Shades of Gray by: Ruta Sepetys

Between Shades of Gray is NOT 50 shades of gray. Two different books. The reason I say that, is because a lot of times when I say between the shades of gray and how great of a book it is people are like 50 shades of gray? No Between the shades of gray. I know I say this a lot but it is such a good book! There are few books I don’t like. This book is about a girl her mother and her brother and how they survived the German prison camps. Similar to Corrie Ten Boom (click Here To read my post on her book) they are moved from camp to camp mercilessly. If you read this book, I think it is necessary to say that you need to read the afterword of this book. It gives more of an ending to it. Well it might be a part of the book. i dont know. But anyway it is longer but worth it.
Have you read this book?
Caroline

Summer Plans. Mine and Yours

Hey guys! As summer is approaching, we start to make plans, create goals, and as I was thinking of things. I want to do this summer, I thought what do you guys want to do this summer? what are some things you want to get done? do you already have vacation plans? or are you staying at home? do you have a summer bucket list like me? If you don't, but want one here's what I've got.
- Have some friends over to spend the night,
- Read at least 20 books, or come as close to it as possible,
- Work on my blog
- Have an awesome time at summer camp 💜Camp St. Thekla💜
- Learn to play Solfeggio in C minor on piano
It might be short but hey, summer sadly doesn't last forever. It will probably change, but that's what I got so far! Let me know what you summer plans/goals are!

A Walk To Remember By; Nicholas Sparks

Happy June!
Last Year about february A Wrinkle in time came out. You are probably thinking, What does A Wrinkle in Time have to do with A Walk To Remember? Well I am getting there. So i emailed a few of my friends and asked them if they would read A.W.I.N. With me and then go see the movie together. So we read it and thus my Book Club was born. So we have been steady going for a while, we have been going for 18 months now. Ok this months book is A Walk To Remember. I started it late at night read ten pages, picked it up the next day and finished it before 6;00. i hope that reflects the fact that it is good. I enjoyed the characters, and to be honest I went in to the book knowing it was a romance. So knew they wouldn't be in love already..... ya know stuff like that! I was a little thrown off when he started saying how annoying and weird this girl was, i mean why would he say stuff like that. I started thinking that she was the weird girl no one likes and he would fall for a cheerleader or something. but overall I love the story, how he reacts to things, and her sense of humor. i hope I didn't   give some of the book away. I probably did. but there are always more surprises. :)
overall i absolutely loved this book.
how many of you have read this book?
i hope at least Olivia, Ana, Ava, and Lydia have! (they are in the Book Club I took forever explaining)

The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

This book like many, reflects christianity when you dig.  I am taking a class on how to dig and find christianity! this book is about a shepherd without a known name, who is trying to find and accomplish his personal dream.  The book starts with sort of a recount of his past.  His love for the merchants daughter, whom he will see in a couple of days, and why he is a shepherd.  How he goes from being a simple shepherd and protecting sheep, to being a traveler searching for his souls delight. I really enjoyed this book and I feel like the author really has a way of drawing you in and keeping you there.  It was such an interesting book.  I really think that this book is for older children and adults, maybe 12 or 13+.
Happy Memorial Day!

Liebster Award

                                                            
Hey guys! I have been nominated by Olivia for the Liebster Award! 
Thank you so much Olivia!
Rules:
- Thank the blogger who nominated you,
- Display your award,
- Answer the five questions you were asked,
- Nominate Five bloggers,
- Ask 6 new questions,
- Let the Nominees know you nominated them 
and give them a link to your post 

Olivia’s questions are, 
-What inspired you to start blogging?
Well I had been wanting to start a blog for a while, but a few of my 
friends wanted to start a blog and you encouraged us to start our own. 

- What is your favorite instrument to listen to?
Probably Guitar, because there are so many ways to play is and the two 
different types make a song sound unique 

- What is your favorite sport to watch?
Football🏈

- What is your favorite season and why?
Probably spring because I love seeing all of the flowers blooming and and the trees blossoming and it isn’t hot 🥵 

- What is your favorite Flower?
The Lily of the Valley

- If you could have any animal for a pet what would it be and Why?
Ooh hard. Maybe a teacup puppy! They are so tiny and adorable!

My Nominees are,
Analeigh
Jessica
Nora
Ava
Maddie
Their questions are,
If you could be invisible for one day, what would you do and why?
Beach or lake? Why?
Spring or fall?
What is your favorite wild animal?
Favorite Color?
Favorite Movie?

Thanks again Olivia!

Spyridons shoes by Christine Rogers

Happy Pascha!
Spyridons shoes is  about a boy named Spyridon (nicknamed Spyros) on the island of Corfu, Saving to send himself to school, meets a shepherd also named Spyridon (it was common to be named after St. Spyridon there) to not get confused Spyridon the elder is called Abba.  Abba teaches him to pray constantly.  A thing that is not easy to do.  Spyros is a tailor's son who tends his fathers fishing nets, and in his spare time hunts for octopuses to sell.  But one day on the way home from the beach Spyros cut his foot badly.  His friend who was with him went to get help, but Abba  came, washed his foot, wrapped it and took one of his shoes and put it on Spyros's foot.  Spyros in thanks to Abba mended the hole in Abba's shoe, and waited to see him again for Spyros didn't know where Abba lived.  This is a short book but a good one.  it is very interesting to learn about St. Spyridon in this way.

This or That?

Which Mr. Darcy is better,

BBC, or Keira Knightly version?

I know that this is a movie but I wanted to know!

Elizabeth Bennet or Jane Bennet?

Jane Austin or Agatha Christie?

Batty Penderwick or Fern Arable? 

Comment below and tell me which you prefer! and if you have a good one let me know and I will answer them!

The Giver by Lous Lowry

The Giver is a book I really enjoyed, but there are people who just did not like it.  It can really be 50-50.  This book is set in a dystopian world, where babies are born to be taken away and given to a random family when they turn one. And no one knows what rain, joy, colors, or Christmas are.  At the ceremony of twelve, when all of the 11 year olds turn twelve and receive their jobs, one boy is skipped over. his name is Jonas. At the end of the ceremony, he is finally called up and he is told that he is going to take on the job of the giver.  turns out no one really knows what that job is, only that it is important.  Jonas learns to love, and to see things that his friends can't. He experiences great pain and suffering, but also joy and happiness.
This book is maybe for 11-13+ but the older you are, the more you get from it, an 11 year old may hear the story and not think about it, a thirty year old may have a similar response, but maybe not.  I almost a teenager, felt like I was there, because I was 12 when I read it, I felt like I knew what it was like to be different from other kids, and not like the game war because I knew what it really was.  Bottom line, I felt connected with this book.

The Penderwick series

Honestly I fell in love with these books.  They are heartwarming.  The third and fourth books has some romance indications, but not hugely. Well I mean it says like dates and stuff but it is a kids book.  I defiantly think that this is for like a 7ish year old and up. I read them when I was almost twelve.  To be clear there are 5 books in the series, the first four are more of a quartet and the 5th is more like a very long prologue.  I love them all though.  They really are a true family, they have hard times, their father is a widower, its just all feels so true!  One of my favorite parts of the series is the club that the older Penderwick sisters have.
Have you read the Penderwicks? If you have, comment on what your favorite part is, and if you haven't, go read them! its is such a good series no matter what your age!

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Its honestly been a while since I have read this but it is such an amazing book about how books change lives. Montag, the main character of this book is a fireman. but not one that stops the fires, he starts them.  In this dystopian world books are illegal. When books are found hidden away in a house, that house and everything inside is burned, leaving residents homeless. But walking home from work one day, Montag meets a little girl that changes his whole world. It is a heart wrenching and warming book. It has a sort of cliff hanger but it suffices.  I wish (and there might be but not one that I know of) there was another book! but I come out of most books like that!

The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom

This book is such an amazing book about how faith can persevere through anything!
follow Corrie Ten Boom and her sister Betsy through World War 2.
This christian family of watchmakers, successfully hide jews in their two building house, experience the trials and hardships of German prison camps, Death, and near starvation. Corrie and Betsy are learning the ways that faith in the Lord can really turn things around, and thanking him for small things like lice can really make a difference!  Wow looking back through that, it sounded like the back cover of the book! which it wasn't, but its true so I'll just leave it.  It took us a long time to read, but it was so good! I looked forward to our morning reading for school when we would read it.

And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie

 Agatha Christie is one of my favorite authors . It is said that this is her best published book, to which I agree.  This book, if it is your first to read, may be sort of creepy.  This is not the first one I read so it wasn't bad, but even I got a bit scared.  Overall, this is a longer book for the author, but such a good one.  Honestly, the ending was so unexpected, but I'll leave that for you to discover. This book does not have a detective, but is basically every man for themselves.

Synopsis
Ten innocent men and women are invited to Soldier Island by a "forgotten friend."  Two of the said people are servants who are enlisted for the weekend visitors and their host.  When everyone arrives the host has still not joined them.  After dinner, a strange recording is placed on the gramophone, by order of the host, accusing them all of murder.  Everyone noticed a certain poem hanging on the wall of their rooms. And mysteriously, they all begin to die one by one.

Ten little soldier boys went out to dine,
One choked his little self and then there were nine.
Nine little soldier boys sat up very late,
one overslept himself and then there were eight.
Eight little soldier boys traveling in Devon,
One said they would stay there and then there were seven.
Seven little soldier boys chopping up sticks,
One chopped himself in halves, and then there were six.
Six little soldier boys playing with a hive,
A bumble bee stung one and then there were five.
Five little soldier boys going in for law,
One got into chancery and then were four.
Four little soldier boys going out to sea ,
A red herring swallowed one, and then there were three.
Three little soldier boys walking in the zoo,
A big bear hugged one and then there were two.
Two little soldier boys sitting in the sun,
One got frizzled up and then there was one.
One little soldier boy left all alone,
He went and hung himself
And then there were none.
Frank Green 1869

Welcome!!!

Hi! and Welcome to Caroline's Bookish Musings!
In this blog, I will be talking about books I have read, asking for your feedback and comments on them, and doing polls between popular characters in books etc. I plan to post about once or twice week so make sure to check back!