Sweet Sanctuary

Sweet Sanctuary, by Sheila Walsh and Cindy Martinusen Coloma, is a wonderful book about forgiveness and moving on with your life. It is about a single mother trying to raise her son while struggling with moving on from her past and making the right decisions for the future. I actually really enjoyed reading this book; I normally read historical books and tend to stay away from books set in modern times. I found this book refreshing in that it was a modern story but it still had the morals that I am used to in the historical books.

One thing I really liked about this book was that when issues arose the answer was almost always to put your trust in God. I thought that there were many parts of this story that were relevant to the problems that happen in real life and that the way that the characters struggled and solved their problems was very encouraging to readers. The importance of family was prevalent throughout this novel. I really enjoyed reading how the relationships between the family members changed and grew stronger as the novel progressed. At the beginning of the book you find a broken family that is hurting and by the end of the book you find a family that is healing and growing stronger.
I received a complimentary copy of Sweet Sanctuary from Booksneeze for the purpose of writing a fair and honest review.  I received no other compensation.

Psychopath

So, my husband called me a psychopath and a murderer today. I killed Mr. Fish. The problem is that it wasn't my fish, it was my husband's family's fish that I was taking care of. This fish survived many things, including being frozen accidentally, but me, it could not survive. I killed the unkillable fish. On the other hand, the nine turtles that they have me taking care of are doing just fine.

Books

I am absolutely in love with books. I love reading and pretty much always have. I learned to read a little later in life than most, I was almost 8, but ever since then, you will rarely find me without a book. I love mysteries and suspense books. Some of my favorite authors are Ted Dekker, Frank Peretti, Agatha Christie, G.K. Chesterton, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Dorothy Sayers. I also really love George Barr McCutcheon. I know, most of the authors I named are dead but books aren't written like they used to be.
Lately I have been getting into what I call chick-flick books; mainly, Christian historical novels. For some reason I really love these books. I don't have as much time to read as I used to and I like to read books that don't take that much effort to read and that I can finish in a day if I get really into it. I have spent way too many sleepless nights staying up to read extremely long books because I couldn't put them down than I would care to admit. When I was in college, I also found myself getting into young adult books. I really like fantasy young adult books. Something my mother probably wouldn't be very proud of :) My older sister's favorite book is War and Peace and she even has her favorite translation, and I really like reading Twilight. I think my mother's hopes for me went down a smidgen.
I really like the idea of having an electronic device on which I can store and read my books but I really like holding a book when I read. I would really like to get a Kindle or a Nook, or something like that so that I could have my books anywhere with me, but I would still like to own a hard copy.

Me

So, I guess I should tell you a little about myself. I am a 22 year old college graduate, married to a really terrible guy :) Not really, I just always wanted to say that because in all the game shows the people introduce their spouses by calling the "wonderful," like they could call them anything else on television. I am married to the best guy for me. I am a born-again Christian and I truly believe that God created us to be together. There is no other reason that I can come up with for why we are together :)
The best way for me to describe myself is to say I am an oxymoron. I am a collection of opposites from the music I listen to and the movies I like to the college classes I took. I have a degree in Forensic Science and I really like Biology, but I also really love literature and I took as many classes as I could. I would really love to get a degree in literature at some point. If I could, I would probably be a professional student.
Just a little tidbit for now, more to come later.