#13: Pride and Prejudice

Happy 200th birthday, Pride and Prejudice!  This makes me a nerd, but I even bought my copy on the weekend before its birthday.  A lovely copy it is.  Only, after our BHS Reads Book Club chose P.D. James' Death Comes to Pemberley did I read Pride and Prejudice, which I am embarrassed to say I have never read.  I have now, though, and can finally watch the movie!

I loved the novel. Yes, language is early 19th Century, but I so appreciate Austin's character development of the Bennett family. Resonating with me, Elizabeth was the character with whom I most bonded, maybe because my character echoes her own?

More to come...

#12: Unconditional

As I led the study on this Christian movie, I read the based-on-the movie novel Unconditional.  Inspiring.  One that affects the heart.

Sam, whose husband was killed in shooting, struggles to overcome her grief, resulting in the ultimate low moment from which she was saved when she is needed to help save a child involved in a hit-and-run.  While at the hospital, Sam is reunited with childhood friend Joe.

Based on the life of Papa Joe Bradford, this movie illustrates perfectly the redeeming love of God, Who, ever mindful, never forgets His children, again reminding the viewer that His timing is Perfect.

I encourage all of the above...the four-week Bible study, the novel, and the movie.  I experienced them all...and was truly blessed.

#11: Warm Bodies

Author Issac Marion takes us to a future world of zombies in his novel Warm Bodies, a first for me, for I normally just visit the land of vampires and other such common fantasy type characters.

This novel I purchased again at the recommendation of a student, a male this time, who asked if I had read the novel, which he thought was better than the movie.  Hummm, so, of course, I had to read the novel before watching the movie (that I will have to review later...still have to view it).

Absorbing, I found myself wanting to read...late into the night...to finish this novel...

More to come...

#10 Plain Promise

A local book store's book club of the month choice, I read this...and then was not able to attend the meeting (although I keep having high hopes of attending one sometime)...I read Beth Wiseman's Plain Promise, another series, of course...which I now own!

I enjoy relaxing reads about the Amish life....

More to come...

#9: Beautiful Creatures

Another series!  This one, recommended by my students, I began purchasing at our local high school book fairs and then did not read for some time.  When another student recommended it again...and mentioned that the series is coming the big screen, I knew now was the time

By authors Kami Garcia and Margeret Stohl, set in Louisana, and written for a young adult audience (and enjoyed by some not-so-young), this novel explores a world of realistic fantasy.

More to come!