Quite the Bookworm

I may not have been writing very much lately, but I haven't been a total bum sitting around watching the newly connected cable in my apartment. I have actually been quite the book worm. Seriously, I may need to get a library card because buying books is becoming an expensive habit.

Here are some of the books I've have read in the past month...

I already love their TV show (TLC's 19 Kids and Counting) but I adored this book. This is truly a unique family in everything they do. The first half of the book focuses on the year their 19th child, who was a premature baby and mom and baby almost died in the hospital. The second half was so interesting to read the reason behind why they choose to live the way they do. Somehow it comes off without being judgmental at all. I think some strict homeschool families could use some lessons from the Duggars.

I would recommend this book to anyone! So much insight and beauty about life. I already want to read it a second time. I even blogged a little about it.

As Sure as the Dawn completes the Mark of the Lion series. Every Christian girl should read this trilogy. It changed my life.

Lord knows with my job I can never learn enough about dealing with people. This was an easy read, and very informative with practical tips.

I bought this for $1.00 at a major sale for a used bookstore in Katy. It is a great book about God in the midst of tragedy. The week after I read this, one of my roommate's best friend's lost her boyfriend in a tragic car accident. We spent many late nights sitting up talking about this and this book helped me answer some of her questions.

I. LOVE. THIS. BOOK. It is a futuristic story about the ruins of a place that used to be North America and now is the nation of Panem, a Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. The Capitol is harsh and cruel and keeps the districts in line by forcing them all to send one boy and one girl between the ages of twelve and eighteen to participate in the annual Hunger Games, a fight to the death on live TV.

I didn't think the second book could be as captivating as the first but it was!

This was my least favorite of all three. Probably because I had written my desired ending in my head, and of course, that is not what happened. Still well worth the read.

So I gave into the hype regarding this book. Sue me. This best seller just came to the silver screen, and I wanted to read the book first. This was a good story about desegregation. However, it is written in the voice of three different women, two of them were African American maids in the 1960s. I almost quit reading it because it was written in poor grammar Ebonics. I felt like I was losing brain cells just because of the grammar. But I pushed through, and despite the obvious feminist undertones, this was a fun story to read.