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!