Reading Bucket List

1. Fifty Shades Darker, E.L. James
    I read the first book, Fifty Shades of Gray, so now I have started reading this book. So far this series is a very good one. You should not listen to what everyone says about this book because everyone has their own opinions! It has a great story line and it keeps you interested the whole way through. I know I never want to put the book down!

2. Fifty Shades Freed, E.L. James
    It is the third and final book of the "Fifty Shades" series. It is a #1 Newyork Times Bestseller and I am sure it will be great just like the first two! I am not exactly sure how this one is supposed to go, but I cannot wait to find out! I started this series about a month and a half ago and I am already almost finished!

3. Columbine, Dave Cullen
    I have talked to people about this book and it seems that most of their reactions are along the lines of "It was a great book! I never wanted to put the book down!" I have heard it has excellent reserach about the school shooting and everyone loves it! I cannot wait to read it!

4. Delirium, Lauren Oliver
    From what I hear it is a really good book. I have read some other books by the author and she is a great writer. I do not really like stories that start out slow, but most people say that this book had them hooked within the first fifty pages!

5. Perfect Chemistry Series, Simone Elkeles
    I have had a few friends read this book and they really fell in love with it! I looked it up and started to read a little bit about it and it seems to me that I may enjoy it quite a bit. I love to read series, so that part made the books sound even better.

6. Heaven is For Real, Todd Burpo and Lynn Vincent
    Many many many people have said that this boook really opens your eyes. A little boy that goes to heaven, watches his parents, and then lives to tell about it, that is pretty awesome. I love to read books or hear stories about things like this because it really lets me know and remember how great God is.

7. House of Night Series, P.C. Cast
    I started reading this series when I was not really into books, so I did not pay that much attention to the story and I just stopped reading them. What I can remember about these books, it seems that I really liked it. I have decided to give them another shot!

8. Girls in Trucks, Katie Crouch
    My grandma read this book, she said she really enjoyed reading it. She gave it to me in hopes that I would read and enjoy the book. I have not started it yet, but it seems like something I would be interested in reading.

9. Once Was Lost, Sara Zarr
    I was looking for a few books to read and I happened to come across this one. This book is very different than all the other books I have read. This book is about a girl and her dad is a preacher so she was raised to have faith in God and amazing grace, but lately she is losing her faith.

10. Story of a Girl, Sara Zarr
      As I was looking for books, I came across this book also. It is about all the things that teenage girls have to go through and how this girl, in particulary, deals with it. She gets caught with her older brothers best friend and she has to deal with all the crap that people seem to be giving her.

Sinking Ship

On the Tiatnic, many people were in the wrong, some of the people I would be able to forgive, like the officers. They were just as scared as everyone else and they really weren't expecting to hit an ice berg. They tried to the best of their ability, at the moment, to get all the people they could onto life boats. I would not be able to forgive the captain. As a captain it is your duty to protect all the people on the ship, and to pay attention to what you're doing. It says that he wasn't paying attention to the ice warning and he was going way too fast, he did not slow down for the ice berg, even though he knew he was about to hit one. He had to take all the blame for killing those people because they were his responsibility. 

Pity

No, this man does not deserve pity from anyone! He did this to himself, he made the decisions he made knowing what he was doing. He was in his right mind the whole time, he knew he was killing innocent people for no reason, at all. Now that he is on his death bed, suffering just like the people he killed, he wants forgiveness. All those Jews he killed probably wanted forgiveness too, but for what? They did nothing wrong in the first place, but nobody would ever listen to them. Nobody gave them a reason as to why they were being killed. This man is now realizing how wrong it was to do what he did because he is suffering, not even half as bad he made other people suffer. I guess they say karma is a "B" word for a reason, and now what's gone around is coming around for him. In the text he states, "When I was still a boy I believed with my mind and soul in God and in the commandments of the Church. Then everything was easier. If I still had that faith I am sure death would not be so hard." Now that he is realizing that he has lost God, he is saying that he could make it through death okay if he had not have lost him. He basically said that if he were still close to God, I wouldn't be asking you for forgiveness of what I have done.

The Forgiveness of Crack

"An unmarried woman continues to use crack cocaine during her pregnancy even after learning it could cause birth defects in her unborn child."  This woman should not be forgiven.  She is an irresponsible, self centered lunatic who is possibly causing her child to have a deformity.  She has the knowledge that her child could be harmed by the actions she has chosen and she still keeps doing them.  I know a woman who had a child out of wedlock that was using crack cocaine and many other drugs, and her child is now 28 years old with the mind of a 4 year old.  She still uses drugs and pays no attention to her son.  He has been through many years of being made fun of, but he doesn't know it.  His mother has made him suffer his whole life because of HER actions, and it is not fair.