Sleeping Beauty....NOT!

I am experiencing a sleep disorder. I can't stop having dreams about my wedding day. It would be fine if they were normal dreams where prince charming sweeps me off my feet but they are mostly dreams about what could go wrong on the big day. I have felt fairly at ease about the whole planning process but the more dreams I have the more I feel stressed that one of my dreams will come true. I have gotten advice from friends and they told me that it's good to dream about all the things that could go wrong because then I will have corrected every possibility by the actual wedding day. Throughout all these dreams I just keep feeling like all I want to do is just marry my groom. I think that so much of the wedding process is just planning and planning and often you forget to just enjoy the fact that you are committing your life to someone else. I know that no matter what happens on our wedding day as long as I marry Brad everything will have been perfect. I hope these dreams get out of my brain and I can just go on living my life being relaxed. Life is too short to worry.

The Women Movie Review

My friend and I were sitting in this movie waiting to watch a movie that we were hoping would resemble the thrill we got from Sex and the City. What we ended up watching was a horrible mix of too much estrogen.

The Women is about a woman who finds out her husband is cheating on her and all her friends have already known about the affair. She engages in activities that make her feel wonderful again and gains her confidence back, while her friends go after the woman her husband is cheating with. All throughout this movie I kept waiting for something exciting to happen but nothing ever happened.

Halfway through the movie my friend and I were talking about leaving and getting our money back, but we waited, thinking maybe there would be a huge climax coming that we wouldn’t want to miss. There was nothing.

I never realized how essential male characters are in a movie, but this movie made me realize how much I appreciate the interactions between a man and a woman. There wasn’t a single man in this movie, and it totally failed to spark my interest. The plot was not interesting nor was the dialogue, and it had no riveting characters. It was a flop in my mind.

I would never recommend this movie to anyone and am so sorry I wasted my money seeing it. Save yourself ten bucks and get some good ice cream because that will bring you more satisfaction then this.

RATING 2/10

Nights in Rodanthe by Nicholas Sparks

I have been seeing previews for the movie “Nights in Rodanthe” for weeks and have been anxious to see it. I talked to some of my girlfriends about it and they said they didn’t want to see it because they read the book and nothing could beat that. I decided I would borrow the book and read it to get me prepped for the movie.

As I got deeper and deeper into the book I started really getting involved in the story of a doctor who decided to retire and rekindle his relationship with his son. On his way to visit him he made a stop at a bed and breakfast in the town of Rodanthe where he meets a woman who ends up changing his life forever. This was a short read and it is easy to breeze through the love story. I liked that this book was an extreme romance because it captures something that is so hard to find in this world: love. It was an amazing story that revealed how, in one simple weekend, two people can experience a bigger love than they ever thought was possible.

The best part of this book is that it portrays love as being simple and easy, which is how it should be. The characters did not go overboard with complicated emotions but instead relished the beautiful joy of what love can be.

The lesson that I learned from this book was to be in the moment and just let love happen. Once we make things complicated for ourselves, love becomes something less great. The only thing that was slightly harder to relate to was the age of the characters. They are older and have life experiences that I don't... yet. The fact that they are older, however, does not take away from one of the best love stories I have ever read. If you loved The Notebook then you will enjoy this book just as much.

I walked away from this book wishing that it was longer because I just wanted more. There was magic in its pages and I hope you will discover how amazing a life with love can be through reading it. Take a night, curl up on the sofa with a cup of tea and get involved in one of the greatest love stories of our time. Oh and after you read this don’t bother seeing the movie; it wont be as good, I promise.

Rating: 8/10

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A Voice in the Wind by Francine Rivers

I have read previous Francine Rivers books and she writes in a way that is so captivating that I am sucked into her words; she actually makes me want to be a better person. I expected nothing less from this book.

The story is about a young girl who loses everything she has and is forced into slavery. While being held captive, she falls in love with an aristocrat who she cannot be with because of the way society oppresses women. She seeks God in a time where Rome is left to suffering because of its own selfishness.

I must confess that I stayed up almost a solid week just so I could see what happens next in this book. It was amazing and unexpected how my heart was won over by the leading woman in this story. She had every quality that I strive to have in my life, and she had nothing. It humbled me to see how content she was in her horrible situation and I long to have the peace she experienced. I think I could spend my whole life trying to become the lead woman in this book and I would still fall short. I am not saying that this character is incapable of being accessible, because parts of her lie within all of us, but we have to believe in ourselves before we can tap into our inner strength.

There is nothing about this book that I didn’t like. I felt that the story and characterization was perfect. Often it is hard to get emotionally involved in a book, but this was not the case for this story. It was easy to read because I wanted to see what was on the next page. I think you will really be able to relate to the main character in the book and I hope she will work through you like she did through me. My heart has changed since reading this story and I look at love and life in a whole different way. Books don’t often affect me the way this one did and I am so thankful that I stumbled upon this amazing story.

I hope you will have the opportunity to open the pages of this book and let the message jump into your heart and eventually seep into the cracks of your life. This was the best book I have read all year and I will continue to be a Francine Rivers fan forever. This book was one of the three written in the Mark of the Lion series, so you have a couple more opportunities to read another great story. I recommend you get lost in this story and, when you are done, be sure to pass the book along so another special woman in your life can experience the joy.

Rating: 10/10

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