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Review: Divergent – Living With A Choice

Posted May 11, 2015 in Reading, Review / 0 Comments

Review: Divergent – Living With A ChoiceDivergent by Veronica Roth
Series: Divergent #1
Publisher: Katherine Tegan Books (2011)
eBook (487 pages)
Rating:
Reading Challenges: Read 2015

Synopsis

In Beatrice Prior’s dystopian Chicago, society is divided into five factions, each dedicated to the cultivation of a particular virtue–Candor (the honest), Abnegation (the selfless), Dauntless (the brave), Amity (the peaceful), and Erudite (the intelligent). On an appointed day of every year, all sixteen-year-olds must select the faction to which they will devote the rest of their lives. For Beatrice, the decision is between staying with her family and being who she really is–she can’t have both. So she makes a choice that surprises everyone, including herself.
During the highly competitive initiation that follows, Beatrice renames herself Tris and struggles to determine who her friends really are–and where, exactly, a romance with a sometimes fascinating, sometimes infuriating boy fits into the life she’s chosen. But Tris also has a secret, one she’s kept hidden from everyone because she’s been warned it can mean death. And as she discovers a growing conflict that threatens to unravel her seemingly perfect society, she also learns that her secret might help her save those she loves . . . or it might destroy her.

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Review: Arriving At Amen – Reminding Me Why I Love Being Catholic

Posted May 4, 2015 in Faith, Reading, Review / 4 Comments

Review: Arriving At Amen – Reminding Me Why I Love Being CatholicArriving At Amen by Leah Libresco
Publisher: Ave Maria Press (2015)
eARC (192 pages)
Via: NetGalley
Rating:
Reading Challenges: Read 2015

Synopsis

A former atheist makes sense of Catholicism and learns to pray by relying on the rosary and the rumba, avoiding sin and the sunk cost fallacy, and finding communion along Cartesian coordinates.

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Review: The Girl Death Left Behind – Grieving and Growing Up

Posted April 23, 2015 in Reading, Review / 0 Comments

Review: The Girl Death Left Behind – Grieving and Growing UpThe Girl Death Left Behind by Lurlene McDaniel
Publisher: Laurel Leaf (1999)
Paperback (176 pages)
Rating:
Reading Challenges: 2015 Birthday Month, 2015 Re-Reading, Read 2015

Synopsis

Beth’s world has been torn apart. She cannot figure out how to go on when a car accident claims the lives of her entire family, and she is the only survivor. Things seem to get even worse when she moves in with her aunt and her spoiled cousin, Terri. But with the love and support of her aunt and some unexpected friends, Beth struggles to overcome the despair that threatens to consume her. Will she be able to move past the painful memories without feeling guilty for being a survivor?

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Review: Story of a Soul – The Little Way of Saint Therese of Lisieux

Posted April 22, 2015 in Faith, Reading, Review / 0 Comments

Review: Story of a Soul – The Little Way of Saint Therese of LisieuxStory of a Soul by St Therese of Lisieux
Publisher: St Anthony Messenger Press (1896)
Audiobook
{6 hours and 10 minutes} (306 pages)
Rating:
Reading Challenges: 2015 Re-Reading, Read 2015

Synopsis

Sharing memories from early childhood through her life as a Carmelite nun, Therese opens her heart to us. This bride of Christ reveals her passion and longing for union with God. Her simplicity is charming and we begin to believe that we can travel the path to salvation that she points out to us.

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Review: Siege and Storm – A Whole Lot of Waiting

Posted April 16, 2015 in Reading, Review / 0 Comments

Review: Siege and Storm – A Whole Lot of WaitingSiege and Storm by Leigh Bardugo
Series: The Grisha Trilogy #2
Publisher: Square Fish (2013)
Paperback (432 pages)
Via: Library
Rating:
Also by this author: Shadow and Bone, Ruin and Rising, Six of Crows
Also in this series: Shadow and Bone, Ruin and Rising
Reading Challenges: Read 2015

Synopsis

Hunted across the True Sea, haunted by the lives she took on the Fold, Alina must try to make a life with Mal in an unfamiliar land, all while keeping her identity as the Sun Summoner a secret. But she can’t outrun her past or her destiny for long.
The Darkling has emerged from the Shadow Fold with a terrifying new power and a dangerous plan that will test the very boundaries of the natural world. With the help of a notorious privateer, Alina returns to the country she abandoned, determined to fight the forces gathering against Ravka. But as her power grows, Alina slips deeper into the Darkling’s game of forbidden magic, and farther away from Mal. Somehow, she will have to choose between her country, her power, and the love she always thought would guide her–or risk losing everything to the oncoming storm.

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