Book Review: Let it Go by Chris Williams

Most of you know I'm LDS (Mormon).  Well, I don't usually talk religion that much,  and this isn't gonna be a preachy post, but I HAVE to tell you about this book. It will amazingly help you understand the principle of forgiveness. It's not even about "Mormons."  It is simply about being like Jesus Christ and a Christian. 

This book has HONESTLY changed my life!  It is so amazing and uplifting you would not believe.  

Chris Williams is an amazing author and I love his sense of humor along with the profound love he has for his Savior and family.  

Let it go will lift your heart and give you an understanding of what true Forgiveness means.  It is tremendous to me that someone could lose their spouse and 2 kids (and an unborn baby!) to a drunk driving accident and then turn around and forgive!  I love the saying "Let it Go." 

It's amazing what Jesus Christ can do to our hearts if we are willing to hand it over to him.  This book will truly lift your spirit! 

 If you don't want to read the book, please watch the video.  click on the "Let it Go" link above.  Get some tissue ready because the tears are gonna come! 

Hope you enjoy this!!

I was not in any way compensated for this book review.  I just read the book and absolutely loved it.  I want to share it with everyone!!

Book Review: Matched by Ally Condie

At first I wasn't sure what to think.  The book is in a different Society and it's hard to imagine, but boy did I get sucked in fast!  I really liked the character Cassia.  She is innocent and torn between to hottie boys.  She loves them both, but in different ways.  

The thing I love most about this book is that it had no cussing or sex!  A little smooching is ok, right?  There is a little of that.  I recommend this book!

Here is Goodreads review:

Cassia has always trusted the Society to make the right choices for her: what to read, what to watch, what to believe. So when Xander's face appears on-screen at her Matching ceremony, Cassia knows with complete certainty that he is her ideal mate . . . until she sees Ky Markham's face flash for an instant before the screen fades to black.
The Society tells her it's a glitch, a rare malfunction, and that she should focus on the happy life she's destined to lead with Xander. But Cassia can't stop thinking about Ky, and as they slowly fall in love, Cassia begins to doubt the Society's infallibility and is faced with an impossible choice: between Xander and Ky, between the only life she's known and a path that no one else has dared to follow.

I am excited to read Crossed, the sequel to Matched!

Have you read The Book Thief?

I haven't done any book reviews on my blog before, but I just finished this book, and it is FABULOUS!

This Summer I promised myself that I would read a lot. I always encourage my kids to read a lot during the Summer, so I figured I should too. I took the Summer off of school and checked out a ton of books!  This is one of the first one's I read: 

The Book Thief (a summary from The Gradesaver.com)

Narrated by Death, The Book Thief is the story of Liesel Meminger, a nine-year-old German girl who given up by her mother to live with Hans and Rosa Hubermann in the small town of Molching in 1939, shortly before World War II. On their way to Molching, Liesel's younger brother Werner dies, and she is traumatized, experiencing nightmares about him for months. Hans is a gentle man who brings her comfort and helps her learn to read, starting with a book Liesel took from the cemetery where her brother was buried. Liesel befriends a neighborhood boy, Rudy Steiner, who falls in love with her. At a book burning, Liesel realizes that her father was persecuted for being a Communist, and that her mother was likely killed by the Nazis for the same crime. She is seen stealing a book from the burning by the mayor's wife Ilsa Hermann, who later invites Liesel to read in her library.

Keeping a promise he made to the man who saved his life, Hans agrees to hide a Jew named Max Vandenberg in his basement. Liesel and Max become close friends, and Max writes Liesel two stories about their friendship, both of which are reproduced in the novel. When Hans publicly gives bread to an old Jew being sent to a concentration camp, Max must leave, and Hans is drafted into the military at a time when air raids over major German cities were escalating in terms of frequency and fatality. Liesel next sees Max being marched towards the concentration camp at Dachau. Liesel loses hope and begins to disdain the written word, having learnt that Hitler's propaganda is to blame for the war and the Holocaust and the death of her biological family, but Ilsa encourages her to write. Liesel writes the story of her life in the Hubermanns' basement, where she miraculously survives an air raid that kills Hans, Rosa, Rudy, and everyone else on her block. Liesel survives the war, as does Max. She goes on to live a long life and dies at an old age.

I highly recommend this book to older teens and adults.  Go here to find out more about the book and if it would be appropriate for your child.  I have a 17 year old daughter and I think she would enjoy the book.  

I would love to hear if you have read this book and what you thought of it!  Leave me a comment.  I read every one of them!!