Since my last update I have been rather productive. In the past eight days I have:
- Had a bake-athon with my girlfriends
- Read three books
- Cleaned the dreaded closet
- Written some letters and cards
- Finished most of my Thank you cards (although I still don't have access to any of the addresses)
- Slept in
- Gone to Stanwood and back
- Finished almost all of my Christmas shopping
So, this Bake-athon we had... It was insanity! We were baking for over 10 hours. We made 11 recipes and doubled each one! We made everything from peanut brittle to gingerbread cookies to no-bake cookies to chocolate balls to biscotti and much much more. We were so sick of it by the end. Not to mention the fact that we were utterly overwhelmed by the quantity of cookies we were supposed to be taking home with us.
On to my readings.
"Night" by Elie Wiesel - Fantastic. Highly recommended. It's the authors record of surviving the holocaust and the terrifying things that he lived through. Short book, very moving.
"Stolen Innocence" by Elissa Wall - A bit slow at first, but by the end I didn't want to put it down. This was more informative than I expected. It's about the author's experience growing up in a polygamous sect. She was a teenage bride and eventually broke free of the community. The author does a good job defending certain aspects of the polygamous community while unveiling some of the horrors that occur. The book is written with sincerity, love and sadness for the people she left.
"My Sister's Keeper" by Jodi Picoult - Another highly recommended read. Erik even made me read this one aloud to him in the car while we were driving because it is so well written. It's about a little girl who was born because her parents wanted a genetic match for her older sister who has leukemia. This little girl has undergone so many procedures to keep her sister alive and healthy and she has finally decided that she doesn't want to anymore. It's about a family's struggle to do what is right.
I should go wake Erik up... Have a good day!
4 comments:
I saw Stolen Innocence at our library just this past week (can you believe it?)...it looked pretty interesting. I'll have to keep that one in mind.
Is My Sister's Keeper fiction or non?
And finally...Night...I was just thinking about that book this past week. That book made me cry. Hard.
I'm so glad you are enjoying your Christmas vacation! It sounds lovely. Reading out loud to each other sounds lovely, too. I'm so glad you're enjoying your break. You deserve it. =)
My sister's keeper is fiction. Jodi Picoult has actually written quite a few books. I am reading another by her right now. I just started so I forget the title. It is interesting as well. Also fiction.
i LOVED stolen innocence. soooo good!
Jodi Picoults books are good... 19 minutes especially... miss you lots and hope you had a good Christmas!!!
Lynn
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