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!