Classic Novel one-Pride And Prejudice

The next book. I actually haven't read this book. Sadly I haven't read any of Jane Austen's books I bought like 3 of them last year but never got around to reading them so here it goes. One of the goals I set for myself. Read more classic novels. Here is book one of that list. I started yesterday and I've gotten to chapter 5 already. So far so good. I'm not sure how my newest blog series is going to work out with this book with quotes and what not but we will see. I hope to get to a point in this book that I don't want to put it down and try and finish as much as possible before Wednesday since thats when my craziness starts. Going back to CO. That will be a REALLY busy week. So not much reading will be done that week. So we shall see how it goes.
Have a good rest of your weekend my lovelies.

My thoughts.-the Christian atheist.finished

*the finished book*

I've spent the last 3 hours powering through the last few chapters of this book. It gets intense at the end. It really is an amazing eye opening book and if you ever question your faith any part of your faith you should read this book. I still have questions of course some that came to me while reading this book. I do wish I read this book while I was in Vegas so my pastor could walk me through these questions while they are still fresh. He read this book after my sister told him I wanted it for christmas. He has past it on to her to read, and I cant wait for her to read it, I want to know what questions she has about it if any. She is more involved and knowledgeable about Church and God than I am.

I now know I am a First-Line Christian. I plan to change that. I know I wont change it right now, I really do need my Church, family, and pastor to change it. I do wish I had been smart enough to pack my bible on this trip though. I really would like to get back into reading it. I've missed it. I've missed Church a lot I am so ready to get back into it.

So Ill get to it. The last quotes from the book. There are A LOT!

-Before you begin your journey toward change, brace yourself. The excuse monster is waiting in the shadows, ready to rear his ugly head:.

-If you're not dead, you're not done. God still has something important for you to do. These truths alone make you important. You can change.

-The apostle Paul said, "Do not be misled:'Bad company corrupts good character'"

-You can't change in your own power. If you feel overwhelmed by something bigger than you, let the one who is bigger than all things be the power you need in your weakness.

-But when the night sets in, I stare at the ceiling, feeling alone, afraid to trust God completely. If I can be truly honest, I am often overwhelmed with worry.

-Matthew 6:27 asks a practical question: "Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his ife?" I wonder how many hours worry has shaved off the end of my life? (Now I'm really worried.)

-If you do catch yourself worrying even after you've done what was wise, remember that God is bigger than our problems, and that he wants us to hand them over to him. Worry then becomes a signal alerting us that it's time to pray. Any time you hear the alarm start to blear, stop. It's time to stop worrying and start praying.

-Sometimes God's response to prayer may take longer than you want. Second Peter 3:8-9 says, "With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day. The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness."

-Can your worry change anything? No. Can God change anything? Absolutely he can. Do what God tells you to. Give everything you cannot do to God.

-"When you have proven faithful with little, I will trust you with much."

-Our actions confirm that a disturbing number of us truly believe this equation: better possessions+peaceful circumstances+thrilling experiences+the right relationships+the perfect appearance=happiness.

-Instead of seeking to serve one another, we wrongly believe that there's one person out there who exists solely to make us happy.

-God hates it when we pass up on the real life and settle for the false promises of this world.

-We are strangers, aliens, foreiners on earth. We are made to dwell forever with our Lord in heaven. Phil. 3:20 We will never discover lasting happiness in the temporary things of this world because we weren't made to live a temporary life.
That's why we should lower our expectations of this place. Earth is not heaven. Thats why no amount of money, new house, new furniture, new kitchen appliances, new clothes, new hair, new baby, new vacation, new job, new income, new husband, or new anything will ever satisfy us, because we were not made for the things of this world.

-Why is it that those who have so little often seem to have so much? And why do those with so much seems to have so little that really matters?

-The apostle Peter says, "Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have"

-However you normally communicate, you can naturally weave in your own story.

-When you serve others in Christ's name, with no strings attached, people will notice something is different about you.

-Faith comes from hearing the message, and the message is heard through the word of Christ."
Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says."

-When he chose friends, Jesus surrounded himself with the lonely, the broken, and the overlooked. God is calling you to be a part of his church, to be his church. If you dont feel like you're good enough, then you're exactly who he's looking for.



So there is the lastest book. =) I loved it. If you read it I hope you love it, let me know if you do read it Id love to hear your thoughts on it. On to the next...

So still no idea for what to call this....

I really need a title for these quote blogs. I dont want it to just say Quote Blog. Lets see if as Im writing this if I can come up with something.

*heres the book so far with all my markers*

-God's love is different. God's love is permanent and unchanging. Jeremiah 31:3 describes it this way:God said, "I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with loving-kindness." While others may love you today and abandon you tomorrow, God's love never changes. And because of that, you will always be a valuable, significant individual.
-Guess what? You are that one! God loves you so much that he's searching the wild, dark night to save you. He's moving all his furniture and tearing up the carpet simply to reach you. God is watching every moment of every day, waiting for you to return home, and when you're yet only a dot on the horizon, he'll sprint toward you, his arms flung wide and a joyous grin lighting his face.
-"I can't believe what I'm hearing. Right in front of me is a bar owner who believes in the power of prayer and a pastor who doesn't"
-Pray about whatever is on your mind. When you find out your grandfather has cancer, pray that God would heal him. If your boss drives you crazy, talk to God about her. If you have headaches, tell God when it hurts. If your marriage is in bad shape, ask God to help. If you are considering replacing an older car, ask God for wisdom. Before starting on your term paper pray for direction.
-Here are Jesus' instructions: "When you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by men. I tell you the truth, they have received their reward in full...And when you pray, do not keep on babbline like pagans, for they think they will be heard because of their many words"(Matt 6:5, 7)
-The prayers of godly people recorded in Scripture are examples of straightforward honesty.
-The acronym PUSH has been helpful to me. It stands for "pray until something happens."
-God speaks in many ways. He can speak inaudibly by his Spirit to our spirites. He can speak through people, circumstances, nature, and through his written Word.
-Sometimes in our prayer times, God's "voice" will bless us similarly. He'll prompt us, guide us, and comfort us. He's speaking. Let's listen.
-If good pray is so simple, why doesn't God seem to answer more prayers?
-Unanswered prayer reminds me that prayer isn't a magic formula where we do X and Y and God is obligated to do Z. Prayer is, instead, a mysterious conversation with God.
-The root of bitterness grows in the soil of hurt that has not been dealt with properly.
-Jesus teaches us to "bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you."
-I simply prayed a grudging but obedient three-second prayer: "God, I pray you work in his life."

Alright, there they are this edition of the quotes. I'm about half way through this book I am really hoping to have this finished by the time I leave ND. So I'll get back to reading I guess lol or Ill fill my new addiction to Dexter. We'll see how I feel when I log on the computer. ;)

Quotes from the old book.

What is this? 2 posts in the same week...oh these goals are so mine =)

Anyways the reason for this post is I've been trying to figure out what to do with the book I read about Katharine Hepburn since I have....

...all these tabs of quotes, movies, and basically anything that I wanted to remember. I didnt know what to do with them. I dont really want to put this book away with all these tabs and I dont keep a journal or diary so heres where my blog is going to come in hand. =)
I have started it with the new book Im reading and I kinda like the idea. To put them all on my blog somewhere. It saves them for me and gives everyone a little taste of the book instead of me just telling you without telling you about it. If you dont like it...well its my blog and you dont have to read it right? So here we go.

-Listen to the song of life. (I plan on painting a sign for my house someday, that says this.)
-First, dont take life or its happenings too seriously. Lift up the corners of that mouth that I gave you one moonlight night. Second, try to do one thing well-utilizing the experience of all preccding life and your own wit. Third, never let yourself hate any person. it is the most devastating weapon of ones enemies. (I wish I got this kind of advice from my dad, or just anyone in my life instead of having to figure it out on my own.)
-...She was the living anarchy of love,
She was the unexplained, the end of love,
The one who occupies the dreamy self,
The one appearance in the finite world Which is seen by us one time,
And then despaired Beyound romantic comfort afterwards.
She was my nourishment, my sister, and my child, My lust, my liberty, my discipline,
And she laid fair, awkward hands upon my head.
She was discourteous as life and death
And kindly as a dry white wine is kind
On a blowzy summer day.
In praise or blame, my voice drowns in my blood, I cannot speak, I could not speak before,
Although I knew love fattes on smooth words,
I could not speak at all.
For beyound space she was my quality, She was the very mask of my desire...
~The Daughters of the Sun," by Phelps Putnam
-Before the women began dropping any pretense to virginity into the gutter. With a disregard for truth whic is indeed pathetic. And unisex was born. The hair grew long and the pride grew short. And we were off to the anti-hero and -heroine. John Wayne survived all this.
-Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get-only what you are expecting to give-which is everything. What you will receive in return varies. But it really has no connection with what you give. You give because you love and you cannot help giving.
-There is an enormous difference between love and like. Usually we use the word "love" when we really mean like. I think that very few people ever mean love. I think that like is a much easier relationship. It is based on sense. A blind spot-love.
-One builds one's own jail. I never knew him, I think. And he is the only one who ever knew me-who was onto me. I think I was a confort to him. I hope. Dear Friend.

Recipe for currant cake-seriously this is in the book, who wants to try and make this and tell me how it is? Howard Hughes used to have this made for her for their picnics.
1lb or 3 1/4 cups self rising flour
3/4 lbs margarine
1 3/4 cups black currants
1 cup granulated sugar
2 eggs mixed with a little milk
1 tablespoon brown sugar
Rub margarine into flour. Add dry ingredients. Add eggs and milk. Mix. Place in cake tin lined with greased wax paper. Sprinkle top of cake with brown sugar. Place in top of oven at 400 degrees for 15 minutes. Reduce heat to 325 degrees and bake for another 1 3/4 hours

This list is really just for me. But if you want to check any of them please do and let me know what you think. I love old movies and I love K.H. (hints the reason I read her book) but I want to watch all her movies and own them at some point. So thats why the list is here.
Movies:
Break of Hearts, Sylvia Scarlett, A Woman Rebels, Quality Street. Alice Adams, Stage Door, Bringing Up Baby, Holiday. Mary of Scotland, The Philadelphia Story, The African Queen, Summertime, Long Day's Journey into Night, The Lion in Winter, Rooster Cogburn.
Movies with S.T.:
Woman of the Year, Keeper of the Flame, Without Love, The Sea of Grass, State of the Union, Adam's Rib, Pat and Mike, The Desk Set, Guess Who's Coming To Dinner

quotes from the new book.

So I started reading this book The Christian Atheist a few days ago. So far its an awesome book everything he talks about I've felt during this path to God I've been on over the past 2 years. I'm very much looking forward to getting back to Church when I go to Vegas. But so far I'm about 4 chapters into this book but I wanted to share some of the quotes so far. I have no doubt that there be some added during the course of this book =)

-- "No disrespect meant, but Christians are the weakest people alive. They use Christianity as a crutch to avoid the real world. And the more vocal they are about their religion, the more hypocritical they are." -- I can't tell you how many times I have thought almost this exact thing, before my path to God started. Since I started going to church and reading my bible I have learn its not completely true...for the most part anyways. Some its completely true. Ive actually blog about it before.
-- "I know my life doesn't look like a Christian's life should look, but I do believe in God" --umm YES!
-- "Kneeling on the grass, I heard a voice. It wasn't audible-it was actually way too loud to be audible, too present inside me. "Without me, you have nothing. With me, you have everything." I knelt and prayed the shortest, most power-packed, faith-filled prayer of my life. Not so much whispering as mouthing the words, I said to God, "Take my life."-- powerful be on belief, it makes me smile.
--"Countless well-intentioned people believe in God but don't know him personally. Many of us look the part. Or we think we're Christians because, you know, it's not like we're Baddhists. We believe in God, but our lives don't reflect who he really is."-- I have no words...
--"O God, you are my God." You're not somebody else's God, that I've just heard about. You're my God.--yep still speechless.
--"When our past pain becomes our present identity, the shame cycle has claimed yet another victim. Like a child who repeatedly picks at a scab, many hurt people live a life of unhealed pain."--I think this one means the most and hit me the hardest just because its completely true. how many people can say they dont live in the past in past hurt at some point in their life and let it effect their todays? no one thats who.
--"For many, it is difficult to accept that the past has passed. Sometimes, it's so hard just to leave it there, where it belongs. But until we do, we cannot make peace with the present or walk into the future with hope."--and there it is a slap in the face. let the past be the past. I need to work on this some times.

So there they are so far. This book already has more little arrow stickys then my Hepburn book I just read. =)
Alright good night my lovely friends. Have a good night.

Gods Behaving Badly-finished

Gods Behaving Badly-Marie Phillips

This is a page...in about the middle of the book that I seriously laughed out loud at and whenever I read it or think about it it cracks me up.

I dont remember when I found this book which is weird to me because I can usually remember when I pick up a book and decide I want to read it and add it to my future book list. But for some reason this one I dont remember. But Im glad I added it to my list and Im super glad my aunt got it for me for christmas. Its a completely different book then Ive read in a VERY long time. I havent really laughed at a book in a while so I loved it for that matter alone. But its also a pretty good book in general Id recommend this to people.

Its about the Olympic Gods of course. But they are losing their powers because people arent believing in them anymore and its about them working with mortals...two mortals, to gain them back. Its just funny. I love Apollo and the things she writes for him hilarious to me. The page above more than any other. But still.

So that is the book I just finished. =) On to the next...The Christian Atheist.

ME stories of my life - finished

Me stories of my life by Katharine Hepburn
This isnt a book I ever planned on reading. Im usually not into reading full biographies but I started reading this at the book store and because she dated Howard Hughes I wanted to know what she had to say about him so I bought it for a whole $3 (at the used bookstore) which I usually dont venture into.
Anyways its taken me a long time over a month to read this book so Im very glad that its finally done. It was a good book I learned alot and if you could see the book right now you would see my many MANY "hold that thought" post its with quotes, movies, and just information that interests me that I want to remember. Usually I have one or two of them in a whole book I think I have about 15 of them in this book.
I do love Katharine Hepburn she is my favorite "old" actress. I love how set in her ways she was even back then. She refused to wear dresses and stockings. She refused to bend in her beliefs or wants in life to fit someone else's life. That was until she met Spencer Tracy that is. She talked about him a few times during the book but saved the whole last 2 chapters to talk fully about him. Its amazing to me with how much respect she talks about him with but also says that in the 30 years they were together she never really knew how he felt about her. He was married to another woman but she doesnt really know why he was still married to her. His wife thought Hepburn was a rumor since they didnt go out in public together so there were no pictures. Although they lived together in the same house for most of those years together. She was there when he died in their kitchen at 3am and thats when his wife found out about her. Thats amazing to me.
She hardly talked about Howard Hughes so that was disappointing but I guess if I wanted to learn about him I should read books about him not about someone he dated for a small portion of their lives. Oh well. I think she talked more about John Wayne more than Hughes and she never dated Wayne.
Anyways, this was a good book it was interesting to actually read a biography actually writen by the person. You dont really find those much about old actors/actresses so Im glad I bought it it wasnt a wasted three bucks so thats good.

Safe Haven-Nick Sparks finished

I finished the book I started about a week ago already. Its a Nick Sparks book so of course I sped through it like it was nothing like always. I do have to say that it's a good book and its very much a Sparks book. If you've read any of his books before you know what Im talking about. But I didnt really like the story. Its about a woman running from her abusive husband she changes her name and runs to a small town to start over. She falls in love with a father of two, the husband finds her. Its very much The Gaurdian which wasnt my favorite of his books. Actually behind Dear John its my least favorite. I went into this book having NO idea what it was about. I saw that he had a new book, didnt read the back and just jumped right into it. Its started fairly slow but ended pretty well. It ended in Sparks fashion no doubt. I actually was talking to Jazine about it and with 3 chapters left I told her how it was going to end, I got one small detail wrong but the rest was basically dead on. I will say Im not a fan that he didnt do an epilogue at the end. I think if he did that I might like it a little more. But all in all its a decent book. If you like his work you should check it out. But if you are a fan of his early stuff like Bend In The Road I might skip this if I were you.

Before The Storm-Diane Chamberlain (finished)

So I just finished this book. I dont even remember what number book this is, but I finished and thats what matters.
Glad to be done with it. It wasn't a bad book, it actually was a pretty decent read it kept me interested the whole time. I wanted to get to certain peoples' side of the story more than others. But like I posted before it put doubts in my head about my own want for children. They have always been there so it's not like the book actually put them there just brought them front and center of my mind. I know everyone says "youd be a great mother" or "there's no way you wouldn't be good at it" but that doesn't change the thoughts I have I don't think anyone telling me postive things could actually change them so I guess I'll keep having them until I figure it out in my own head.
Anyways this isn't about my lack of confidance in being a good mother it's about the book. So it's about a woman who has a daughter and falls into a deep depression, doesn't take care of her child, her husband takes their daughter to live with a friend while she falls deeper into her depression. She starts drinking and ends up preganat again but keeps drinking. Finally having a baby with F.A.S.D and they end up taking him away until she can get cleans. Well there's a bunch of scandle with her husband and his brother. There's a fire and it's a race to figure out who actually started it. So all in all its a good book.

Before The Storm-Diane Chamberlain

Alright, I'm about three quarters of the way through my next book. Ive been reading it for a few weeks now. Its taking me to long to finish it, and thats because things happen in it and it makes me question myself.
Its called Before The Storm by Diane Chamberlain. Its a good book, its about a woman who falls in love with a man and they start a family but she ends up with postpartum depression and becomes an alcoholic, becomes preganat again and contiunes to drink and has a baby with fetal alcohol syndrome.
So as Im reading it I wonder if this will happen to me no the drinking or really the depression itself but when she talks about her unattachment to her child. Thats what scares me I have so many issues with getting attached to people so what are the chances Ill have the same issue with my own child? I know Ive become attached to some children one I havent even met in person yet but I mean this does happen to people what if Im one of those people? That scares the crap out of me to be honest. This all goes back to me doubting if Ill be a good mother anyways. I think this was a bad book decision just based on these things. But other then that its a really good read.
-Just a tip if you like Jodi Pocult books you should check out Diane Chamberlian books they have similar writing styles-

My Lobotomy-Howard Dully (finished)

So I finished the book. I have to say this is one of the hardest books I've ever read, no question about it this book makes you think about things someone should never have to think about.
Honestly Im not even a parent and I couldnt imagne giving a 12 year old child a lobotomy. Seriously how is that even legal? This doctor preformed over 2500 lobotomies in his career! WTF he had a lobotomoble (thats what they called in it in the book) but the guy drove the country and gave lobotomies in clinics across the US for years. How does that happen? His last patient that he preformed on was a woman who he cut a brain vessel and caused her to hemerage and die on the table. He was 80(something) when that happened. Ummm excuse me really? Id say you shouldnt preform this operation at any age but 80(something) again WTF!!!
But I cant even tell you the things I felt for this little boy...this NORMAL boy who was subjected to this by an unloving terrible stepmother. There was nothing wrong with this boy other then his father was stupid for marrying this person and not leaving her when he was brought to this doctors' office and questioned about his son.
The end of the book which was writen after it was first published (like an update on things) was the hardest part for me to read. Because tests are run on his brain and the things they find are amazing and terrifying.
I want to write out this part of the book though because it hits home for me.
This is the end of the book, and he is talking about everyone that is invalved and how in everyones life they were all victims of what happened in their lives.

..."Just as they were all victims of what was done to them. Thats true for everybody, I guess. We are all the victims of what is done to us. We can either use that as an excuse for failure, knowing that if we fail it isn't really our fault, or we can say, "I want something better than that, I deserve something better than that, and Im going to try and make myself a life worth living."

So this book was great. At times very hard to push through just because of the thought of the detail he puts into what happened is crazy to me to even consider but all in all a great book and if you ever thought your life was bad at any time you should read this. Itll open your eyes like no other.

My Lobotomy-Howard Dully

Alright so I havent blogged about my books lately. Ive been slacking Im not going to lie I havent read that much lately but Im sure that will start to pick up again fairly soon. But the book Ive been reading is My Lobotomy by Howard Dully. This book is crazy just the idea of it is crazy and the fact that its true is mind blowing. I cant believe people were so willing to give their children and family members lobotomies just to save themselves the trouble of dealing with them, but yet 9 times out of 10 it caused them more problems but I guess after they messed up their brain with one they were able to just put them away and not deal with them anymore. It just cost them money instead of time.

But anyways this book is about a NORMAL kid whos stepmother basically hates him and talks to about 10 doctors to find out what can be done about him and in the end she finds this doctor who tells her, the only way to fix him is to give him a lobotomy. After only visiting with him 4 times and her 6 times and his father twice. How she talked her husband...his FATHER into letting her do it is beyond me really. But thats as far as Ive gotten is hes in the hospital getting ready to have it done.

After typing the name in google I found out you can read the whole book online how about that.

Ill let you know how the rest of it goes when I make it to the end.

Sundays a Tiffany's - James Patterson

Done and done! =) that didnt take long at all and it ended up being a really good book. Im glad they reprinted the pages so I was able to read the book lol (when it first came out it was those jagged edge pages...hate those) Anyways it ended up being a great book I would recommend this to anyone. Im not going to talk about it again though since I jus did like an hour ago or whatever but its a great book and people should totally read it.
No book trailers for this one though. There was one but it was lame and totally didnt do anything for the book and was actually creepy haha so heres just a picture of the book.


On to the next one. =) Im making crazy time on this book list I might have to add more to this years list...well see what happens.

Book 3 ... almost done

So I figured I would blog today about the 3rd book Ive been reading for only 3 days and Im already on chapter 58 which means Im over half way done with it. =) Its interesting reading a book about imgainary friends. This is the 2nd book that Ive read on the subject and there are similar in some ways which makes sense I guess. I think its interesting that two completely different authers write about the same subject and have basically the same idea about grown ups needing an imaginary friend. Is that even possible? Im just wondering really not that I need one but it would be interesting to just see someone that no one else can see. It will make him/her just mine! How awesome would that be? =) Does that make me a loser? haha whatever dont judge me it would be awesome and you know it.
Anyways the book Im reading now is Sundays At Tiffanys by James Patterson but if you look at the book list you already know that.
Well thats all I got today Ill update in a few days when I finish this book if it even takes that long.

Silent Scream - Karen Rose (book 2)

Silent Scream- Karen Rose

So book two is down! I LOVE THIS BOOK! I think out of all of Karen Rose's books the last book and this book were two of my favorites of hers. I always loved David in the other books so Im glad that she finally told his story. Putting David and Oliva together was genius! I love it =)And I just have to say the more I watch these book trailers the more I love them!

I Can See You-Karen Rose

I Can See You - Karen Rose
So I finished the first book of my list which if you have read any of Rose's books before then you know what to expect in this book but if not, she isnt your basic romance writer her books are generally mystery with romance in the background which is why I love her writing. I love how all her books connected by the people in them. When you read one of her books a background character will be the main character in the next. Ive always been one to read a book and want to know more about the lives of a less important person in the book and she gives me that with her writings I love it.
But Ill leave it at that. When I was looking for the book cover picture to post, I actually found this instead. I think its awesome that they are making these.