Five Greats

I'm a little late in posting this,

I had an amazing week last week. 

There were a whole bunch of greats.

1. It began with this

2. Where I got to meet some amazing people.

3. Made new friends. 

4. Got to finally meet some of the most amazing women ever. 

5. And finally made it home to this guy. 

Five Greats

In The Law of Moses

Georgia tells Moses about her

five greats.

The five greats game is.....

finding beauty in ordinary things.

And the only rule is

gratitude.

Thinking this was a great idea,

here are this week's five greats.

1) This kid

He is fun loving

and had an incredible sense of humour. 

2) My new MacBook Air

My MacBook was dying
a slow and painful death.
It was time for a new one.

3) Cousins

Spending time with my cousins
is like hanging out with some of your coolest
friends.

4) Bravo Broadway

Ethan attended theatre camp again this year.
This year's production was
The Wizard of Oz.
Ethan was Uncle Henry,
a munchkin,
an Oz person
and a Winkie!

5) Dinner with an old friend.

Fiona and I realized,

the last time we got together,

Ethan was 3 weeks old!

Great to catch up again!

The Law of Moses - Amy Harmon

A friend of started a FB group,

where we recommend books,

share ones we loved,

basically get excited about books.

A bunch of them were chatting about

The Law of Moses

and how they thought it was the best book

they'd read in June.

Of course,

that meant I needed to read it.

And I have to admit,

I loved it!

The Law of Moses

tells the story of Moses,

a crack baby left in a basket in a laundromat.

His mother was killed

and with his "special needs" 

he's been shoveled back and forth

between family members.

He is an artist,

who feels the need to paint

the images that run through his mind.

Not only does his art control him,

but it also scares everyone around him.

It's viewed as a curse.

Georgia is a neighbourhood girl.

She sees beauty in Moses and his art.

But their relationship

isn't a normal one.

And Moses has rules.

Laws.

And not falling in love is one of them.

My absolute favourite part of the book, 

was Georgia telling Moses to think of his 5 greats.

I love the 5 greats.

I need to start focusing more on my five greats.

Stay tuned...

Beyond the Kingdoms - Chris Colfer

I have been waiting for this book for months!

I even sat outside the bookstore,

enjoying my Starbucks,

and walked in as soon as it opened,

to get it

the day it was released.

The Masked Man is on the loose.

Alex is determined to find him.

So determined,

that she forgets her duty as

Fairy Godmother

and she looses control of her powers.

Feeling they have no choice,

the fairies strip her of her title.

So now,

with no rules to hold her back,

Alex, her twin brother Connor

with the help of Jack, Goldilocks, Red and Mother Goose

are off to find the Masked Man.

They learn the potion he stole

will allow him to enter any book,

and he plans to recruiting the most evil

characters he can.

And so,

in this fourth installment of

The Land of Stories,

our favourite fairy tale characters

now find them in wonderful pieces of literature.

The travel to Oz, 

Wonderland,

Never Neverland.

They meet 

(the future) King Arthur

and Robin Hood.

But can they stop the Masked Man??

Luckiest Girl Alive - Jessica Knoll

Hmmmm.......

I finished reading 

Luckiest Girl Alive

this afternoon,

and am still decided how I feel.

It's one of those books that grip you.

That make you feel.

That messes with your emotions.

I had to put the book down several times,

because I could feel my mood turning dark.

And that darkness stayed with me

for an hour or so.

Ani FaNelli seems to have it all.

She's a writer for Woman's Magazine. 

She's engaged to a wealthy man.

She has great clothes.

She's skinny

(although she complains about how fat she is).

But this doesn't seem to be her.

Earlier on, 

she lets it be known that she works hard to be who is she.

She's fake.

But in high school,

something terrible happened to TifAni.

This is what has contributed to who she is today.

And just when you think you know the full story,

you don't.

And the ending....

can someone help me understand it?

Heaven is for Real - Todd Burpo

I saw a preview for the movie 

based on this book,

and decided I needed to check out the book.

I've read TONS of negative reviews

about this book,

that I almost hesitate to write about it.

I'm not Christian.

I can't even claim I have a lot of faith.

(I've seemed to have lost it.)

But this book really touched me.

Colton Burpo,

aged 4,

 was really sick

and had surgery.

Things didn't look good

and his parents feared the worse.

But Colton pulled through.

Later, 

he starts talking about the time he was in the hospital

and how he went to heaven.

He knows things about the Burpo family

that he shouldn't know.

He describes his time

with Jesus, God, John the Baptist

and he even mentions meeting his 

great grandfather

(who died long before he was born)

and his sister

(his mother had a miscarriage before he was born).

The critics claim this is fake.

All I know,

was this book was written with innocence

and purity.

Critics feel that the book claims

Christianity is the only religion.

I never got that.

I know people who have a strong belief

in their religion

and I have never felt they thought 

they were better.

This book gave me some hope.

Hope that things happen for a reason.

Hope that there is a purpose.

Hope, that one day,

I may find my faith again.