Book Tag!

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Yes, I'm doing another tag! Please join in on the fun and comment with a link to your blog if you decide to join. :)
This is 25 things you didn't know about me and my books. ;) Enjoy and please join in!

1. Favorite fictional character: Poirot!
2. A book you have imagined yourself in: Actually most books I read I imagine myself in them... So I don't think I can choose
3. Favorite book: Wuthering Heights
4. Favorite author: Agatha Christie definitely has to be one of my favorite authors. Including Jane Austen and so forth. ;)
5. The worst book you have ever read: For Whom the Bell Tolls... I didn't finish it for a just cause. :P
6. Your fictional character "crush": Henry Tilney from Northanger Abbey... Especially in the movie! lol ;)
7. Favorite kind of book, such as Romance, Historical Fiction, Historical, Fantasy, Classic, Mystery: All of the above. ;) Except for Fantasy, sry.
8. Favorite kids book: Rumpelstiltskin, I think. :)
9. A book you have read more than once: The Series of Unfortunate Events I read like three times. Love! Such wonderful childhood memories... :)
10. A book that is overlooked: The Black Arrow is definitely overlooked! I loved it!
11. Do you take peoples advice on what to read or do you find books for yourself: Not really...only lately am I actually writing down their suggestions. People just don't seem to read the same kind of books I like to read.
12. Favorite Christian novel: Screwtape Letters
13. A book that you could hardly get yourself to finish: The Heart of Darkness... Wow... Although the ending did get better...
14. A book that you couldn't put down: Each one of the Lineage of Grace books! I would get one in the morning and have it finished by that evening ready to get another. :)
15. A book you want to read: The Hunger Games! I'm so excited to read it! :)
16. Book you are reading: Ben Hur
17. Favorite racial controversy book: To Kill a Mockingbird
18. A book you regret reading: The Picture of Dorian Gray.. I hated it!
19. A book that while you were reading it you were scared: Well it would have to be one of Agatha Christie's books but I can't think of one that did. :P
20. What's your level on how much you love books between 1-10: 10! It's simply a passion of mine!
21. How many books have you read: 99, I'm working on the 100th :D
22. How many books do you hope to read this year: As many as I can fit in to my time schedule.
23. Do you like to read the same book with other people or are you a loner: Both... I like to be able to spend far too many hours talking about a book but then again I like to be a loner because people just don't get it. ;)
24. Do you take it as a personnel offence when people say they don't like to read: Yes...and the thing is that nobody seems to hear from them again... ;)
25. Do you wish to one day be an author: Yes! It's one of my dreams!

I hope you enjoyed and have a love to read like I do. :) God bless and have a wonderful weekend!

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Gaslight

This is an old movie, in black and white, but don't let that make you think it can't be extremely intense! During certain points in Gaslight I was screaming "run" and really just panicking. lol Nowadays people are watching horror movies and things like that, trying to get that scared and freaked out feeling. Well this movie did just that, without the junk that a horror movie has. It felt kind of like a Twilight Zone, but definitely amped up!
I'll try not to give away too much info. ;) In this movie a young girl's aunt is murdered and she moves away from that accursed house. As she grows older and falls in love she agrees to come back and live once more in the house. Soon the wonderful life that she imagined she would have disappears... And contact with the outside world becomes few and far between. What reason does her husband come up with for keeping her a "prisoner"?...  Although not all is lost. Someone does care and becomes evermore intrigued...Will she have the same fate as her aunt or will justice break through. Will she ever be the same/sane again?
How was that? ;) I believe it is a good swap for a horror movie. ;)
Recently I have been watching a lot of movies with Angela Lansbury. Including The Harvey Girls(I love that movie) and Murder She Wrote. :)
The Lord be with you and have a wonderful week. :)

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A Week with Friends!

Well, I think I had my first "weekend" getaway. lol Recently my brother and I went over to my friends house and spent a couple nights there! It was my first sleep over in like forever! It was so much fun! Although I wasn't quite used to the time they wanted to stay up till, which was two... So we stayed up till one. ;) Anyway it was great to see my best buddies again and for a longer amount of time. We went shopping, walking, to the beach, played games, watched That's So Raven, and just had an overall blast together! :D Hope you enjoy the pictures. :)

The birds wanted to surf too! 

Btw did you know that there are sinking sad pits on the beach. Well there are... See those support beams? Well as I was walking near it half my leg sunk in the sand and was soaking wet. :P Oh, well. 

My one and only handsome little brother! 

Photo bombed!

Love this pic!

Mysterious... ;)

God bless and have a great new year!

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A Look Back At 2011

Wow! Another year has come and gone. Can you believe it? Time is either traveling too fast for me or too slow.. Not very patient am I? ;) Anyway this has got to be the craziest year ever for me!

Things we did this year:
1. I was going to the community college (that I unfortunately wasn't able to finish do to moving. :P)
2. I had a job
3. I turned 16 and had the best sweet 16 party ever!
4. We MOVED
5. I went on my first youth retreat (really the first time I had been away from my parents.)
6.  I got a new camera!
7. Finished a 2,000 piece puzzle (right now we are working on a 1,000 piece puzzle. :) )
8. Went to the ocean a lot!
9. Read 28 books this year!! I've read 99 books altogether. I can't wait to get my 100th book finished!
10. Had my wisdom teeth taken out and had four cavities. :P
11. My brother got braces. :]
12.Got my permit! Finally!
13. Went sailing!
14. Saw Scotty McCreery!
15. Everything that just made this year special...
16. Not to mention all the wonders that God has done in my life over this past year!

Thank you readers for being apart of it!
God bless and have a wonderful new year!

Btw my little fact from last year...
My brother is basically the same height he was last year. He might have grown half an inch or something pitiful like that. :P Although he is only 14 and has a good amount of time to grow. :)

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This Christmas Morn

On Christmas morn it finally really felt like the December weather I'm used to. Even though there was no snow, it was still beautiful out! As a Christian, Christmas means so much to me. My pastor said it's the start to Calvary, where Jesus died for my sins. It's hard during this season not to become totally self absorbed, trust me I know! ;) But the greatest gift I could ever receive is already mine. Jesus died for all my sins and transgressions and rose again the third day that we might live. Giving is an act of portraying what miraculous wonders we have been given. God bless and I hope you kept Christ in Christmas this year. 

"Now the birth of Jesus Christ was as follows: After His mother Mary was betrothed to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Spirit. Then Joseph her husband, being a just man and not wanting to make her a public example, was minded to put her away secretly. But while he thought about these things, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, "Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to take to you Mary your wife, for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit. And she will forth a Son, and you shall call His name JESUS for He will save His people from their sins. So all this was done that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Lord through the prophet saying: "Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and bear a Son, and they shall call His name Immanuel," which is translated, "God with us."

-Matthew 1:18-23

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Singing All The Way

Recently my youth group went caroling! We were struggling whether to go or not but we did and I am so thankful! Even though I was burning up in the hospital with my turtle neck on I don't regret it for a moment! Not to mention that I looked like a beet, I was so red. :P Singing songs to people in the hospital was amazing! I felt so blessed! Thankfully I was able to pray with two people! Both of whom were elderly. My brother even got to pray for someone. He said when he had finished praying and opened his eyes that the elderly lady, that he was praying for, had tears brimming in her eyes and she mouthed the words thank you. I feel so blessed to be healthy and out of the hospital, especially for Christmas. But even if I was it's so wonderful to know that God is always with me, no matter where or what. The Lord be with you and have a blessed Christmas!

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Scavenger Hunt Sunday!!!

         


Since I haven't really used Picnik lately or joined in Scavenger Hunt Sunday I decided to have them both in this post! So here's my clash of Picnik and SHS. :) Enjoy!

1. Less is More

Who said? ;)

2. Holiday Cheer

We had a Christmas party for the youth! It was so much fun! The theme was Wild Wild West. Can you tell? Unfortunately not everyone was in this picture. :/

3. Nativity

"Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and bear a Son, and they shall call His name Immanuel," which is translated, "God with us." -Matthew 1:23

4. Ornaments

5. Holiday Lights

Our outside Christmas lights look basically nothing like this. lol I think it's cool how the edit came out though. :)

Hope you enjoyed and the Lord be with you! Don't forget the reason for this season. :)

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