Saving CeeCee Honeycut

What an absolute joy to read! This book was recommended to me by my bff Blythe. I knew it was going to be great by the way she talked about it.

This book is about a little girl that lives with her mentally ill mother after her father has left. She tries to care for her, but tragedy strikes and her great aunt swoops in to the rescue. This book has southern charm to the max. It makes you want to go live in the south with a long lost aunt and her help. The friends this little girl makes are unlikely but fantastic!

There is some language and a little risque scene, but other than that, it is clean. I would only recommend adults read because it isn't a "light" book. But it is. Tough to explain. It just has some topics, like mental illness, that younger readers may not enjoy.

Anyhow, I found it to be a quick, easy read full off surprises. Loved this book.

I Capture the Castle

by Dodie Smith
This book was recommended to me by my friend Miss. Not a bad pick at all Miss. But I won't lie, it was a little Pride and Prejudice to me. Wait, is that the Mr. Darcy one? As you can tell, I am not a big Jane Austen reader, but this was a Jane story, but a way easier read. I like it. I like it a lot. I came back to it night after night, which is saying something.
Story about some really poverty stricken sisters that live in an old English castle that meet some more well off western young men. Pretty much all she wrote. The best part of this book is the narrator. She is one of the sisters and wants to be a writer. So the whole book is somewhat of a journal. She is a character. She has a mild, but enlightening sense of humor. I loved her.
I would recommend this book to anyone although it would be a little boring for a younger gal. There is no language and a few very minor references to sex.
If you enjoy a gentle flowing story, this is for you. Enjoy

Saint Training

By Elizabeth Fixmer
This was a pretty good book. It was a clean book too.
About a little girl that wants to be a Mother Superior nun when she grows up. So she starts a correspondence with a Mother Superior about taking her job. It's cute how she bargains with God and takes any amount of sin very seriously. But she is asked to take on a lot when her mother decides to go back to work, with 9 children. Oh my it is hard to be humble and not sin! Cute character in this book. I would recommend it to anyone. I don't think I remember any cuss words at all.

A Little Princess

By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Now, I don't know if it was the beauty of the new Kindle or that this was a good book, but I loved it. I thought this old classic was a great read! I was about 85% through with it, (I knew this because the Kindle told me so) I recalled a Shirley Temple movie that sounded familiar. So, of course, I called my poor sister, Jeannie. (PS she is forced to endure these random phone calls from me about 80's TV show soundtracks and weird facts. I'm pretty sure it makes her think I am crazy.) Anyhow, it was a Shirley Temple movie! But the book was so cute. Classic rags to riches or vice versa. Cute. I would recommend this book to anyone. (Lyza might like this one Jeannie.)
About a little well off girl that loses it all and the choice she makes to be happy regardless and how things turn out for her in the end. It really made me feel lucky really, to have the material things I have. It made me want to be better about not complaining so much. I know, I have a long way to go.
PS Jeannie, what was that scary show with the witch and the weird yellow/orange dude and they rode on crazy vehicles?
(See what she has to put up with?)

Omagosh! Omagosh! Omagosh!

I got one!!!

Sterling, my favorite husband, (wait, my only husband) got my a Kindle!!!

I am one happy chick!

What a great birthday gift. The one that I've wanted forever!! Ask Sterling how many times I have bugged him about it.

Not only that, but he got me the real nice one. Free 3G so I can download a book in the middle of nowhere.

The icing on my birthday cake??

My book club book this month was a free download!!!

Be ready people!!

I got new books!!!!
Yes!
Thanks Dr. Craig for the gift card.
It was money well spent.
The first book is a biggie. It might take me a day or 2.
In the meantime, did anyone read the Work and the Glory series? I was thinking about it the other day. Not thinking I would read it again just yet but thinking about how great it was. Everything I learned about our church history, I learned from this book. And maybe primary.
Anyhow, if you are looking to get into a series that is fabulous and finished and will take you away for quite some time, (my kids didn't eat a square meal for months), then this is it. I love how it goes back at the end of the chapters and tells you what was fictional and what was not. Loved these characters like family. An easy read that left me aching to read more. Loved it!
Ps....I don't know if my kids have EVER eaten a square meal...
Pss... I should never admit that

Three Cups of Tea

I will have to take this one on later.
A little too slow moving for me right now.
Anybody else.
Should I keep reading?