The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown

I liked this book, I have thought a lot about the main premise and I agree that we all have the power to change things. Not just things in our own lives, but things in the world as a whole. Good thoughts and positive thinking really can change the way the world is and will be in the future. Think about prayer and the power of it when we multiply it with many others (fasting for certain things, pray groups, combined thoughts, prayer, for a person or idea, good wishes, etc.). We are all made in Gods image and have a divine calling and divine potential.
Some of the book was predictable having read his other four books, but it was still a good story with lots of things to back up his ideas. I cannot wait to visit DC again, I did not notice any of the things he was talking about the last time we were there.

Reading this week. I've been home sick.

This has been awful and I really did not surface until Monday. Four kids were home yesterday and I am thankful for friends and family for calling and feeding us. The kids were pretty sick of chicken noodle soup. Thank you. Do not visit, call and then you can't catch this, it is nasty.
Nora Robert and JD Robb, like this book, but then it is the 17th in the series I'm reading so it pushed the story ahead. The beginning is set in 2003 and the rest is set in 2053. I liked it. I read the next in the series also and it was long and I think I really must have been sick because I could not keep reading it, I took several naps and then fianlly finished it after reading two other very fluff romances.

Not my favorite of hers. I would not suggest this to anyone. I then read Sarah Child and it was good. Very classic romance.

Disappointed is all I can say about this one. She seemed to have an agenda is writing this book. License all professions, especially those who deal with death. A good idea, sure, but the book was filled with this propaganda and the main story moved ahead only slightly. The biggest disappointment is that I have to wait another year for the next one to come out and if it is as bad as this one then I won't read anymore of hers.

Raly in DC to let the government know they work for us.

I have to agree I think that those working in DC for us have forgotten who put them there. Write your representatives and give them your opinion of how they are doing their job. I worry we are on a downhill run and no one knows what is at the bottom.

Number 3 is done

I finished book number three last week. Bonnie, Meredith and Vanessa are reading it and Bonnie commented right away that it was much better then the 1st one(She read number one the other two didn't). Yeah!!!! Maybe practice makes perfect after all. I took my mother-in laws advice and decided to try writing in the 3rd person. I like it, it seems to flow better. The words also seemed to flow better right from my finger tips this time. Also, I have been reading more lately to get the idea of how to write better. I'll keep working on it, maybe someday it'll be good enough. Someone told me that it took Edison thousands of experiments to get the light bulb right, I hope I don't need to write that many books to get a keeper. Here's to practice and patience, two things I've never had large amounts of.

I'm going to re-write book number two in the 3rd person and see if it flows better.

Twenties Girl by Sophie Kinsella

Loved it!!! I went a little crazy at the library and now I need to read three more books this week. I need to stay away from that place. This book is witty, sweet, laugh out loud in parts, and tears in others. You will want to hug your grandma when you finish it, I only got to call mine. A single girl in London is at her Great Aunts funeral, who she has never met, and well the funeral is called off and it's hilarious watching all the trouble she gets into. I will never look at an elderly individual the same way again. Read this book. We're all young on the inside, forever! Loved it!!!

The invisible fence project

David and the kids installed an invisible fence on Saturday. The funny part was that they all wanted to try the collar out. We just had them hold it, I wasn't going to allow anyone to place it around their neck. It does give you quite a shock. But, now we have to train Parker, or he will just fight through it and stand barking at us on the other side. This should be interesting. We had to lay out the wire to test before we buried it.

The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson

"How godless and hopeless will he remain? Not very. “What an unexpected reversal of fate,” he says: “only after my skin was burned away did I finally become able to feel.” And: “While I was now surrounded by far fewer people than before, they were far better people.” And inevitably: “Being burned was the best thing that ever happened to me because it brought you.” "

I cried and cried at the end of this book. It was dark, very dark, deep, and disturbing at times, but the theme was amazing. I cannot recommend this to everyone, the language at times is sharp and the visualizations are alarming with the burns he describes in great detail, but I am glad I read it. Mental illness and severe burns make this book very depressing, but the true theme is beautiful and well worth the journey. We are made better and whole by those we know and those we learn to love. Love is not something we use to control another, it is something we give to set them truly free. Religion is huge in this book, he even makes his own trip to hell as in Dante's Inferno.

Tears are flowing as I think about this book. The imagery is full, I could see every thing clearly, even the arrow flying true in the blizzard towards his heart. Loved filled the pages, over flowing there edges. Everyone he met after the burns changed his life for the better and even though he didn't want to accept it, he found love through service. It is haunting and I don't know if I will ever forget some of the stories.

The main character despised church goers, "they pray on Sunday for God's will to be done and when it is they complain the rest of the week."

Love is enduring, pure and everlasting. Listen carefully, "I love you." whispers through the air to all of us.