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No recipe today my friends.
Please don’t panic. I have not fallen out of love with food. I’ll be sharing two new recipes with you before the week is complete. If you can’t wait that long click over to my recipe file where more than 400 recipes are just waiting to become your new best friend.
I am taking a little recipe break, because I have recently read a book that is so amazing and inspirational, I couldn’t help but tell you about it. Just in case you know how to read, and enjoy doing so on a regular basis. 🙂
Unbroken is written by Laura Hillenbrand. It’s the biography of Louie Zampernini, Olympian Athlete and World War II survivor.
It is difficult to read at times, due to the insanely harsh and unbelievable conditions Mr. Zampernini experienced during the war. However, the story is compelling, riveting and immensely moving. It’s the kind of book that makes you grateful just to lay your head down at night on a clean pillow in the safety of your own home. Page after page I found myself in complete awe of Louie Zampernini, his constant will to live, the strength of his character, and his kindness to those suffering around him. It left me wanting to be better, do better, live better.
Read it, my friends. Your time will be well spent.
I would love to order a copy of this book for TWO of you. To enter the giveaway, leave me a comment telling me one of your favorite books, and why you loved it. Also, please leave your email address with your comment. You can enter from now until Sunday night at midnight. The winners will be announced Monday morning bright and early with the sunshine.
Have a good day, everyone! See you back here soon. Calories will be included in the next several posts. 🙂
I just finished Escape from Rwanda. A short read, but a feel good one. I am happy that I have so far kept up with my goal this year….to read one book a month. I haven't read a book in SO long before that.
This book you mention sounds like one I would REALLY like.
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I love to read anything Lisa Scottoline writes. This book sounds like an interesting read.
I enjoyed reading The Kite Runner. As the wife of a U.S. Marine, I appreciated learning more about the culture of the Middle East. Unbroken has been on my list to read for awhile, what a treat it would be to win a copy! Thanks for the giveaway, Jamie!
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I jut finished reading the princess bride, I love it just as much as the movie, probably more.
One of my favorite books is Evidence Not Seen: A Woman's Miraculous Faith in the Jungles of World War II by Darlene Deibler Rose. She was a missionary who ended up being placed in a Japanese POW camp during WWII—her husband was placed in a separate camp. There are lots of interesting historical/cultural details. But you also see God working very powerfully in her life.
There is a heart-wrenching scene, that always brings me to tears where Darlene is imprisoned by the Japanese secret police and has prayed for something, and then retracts that prayer because she thinks it's impossible for God to answer. He amazingly demonstrates that nothing is impossible for Him and gives her exceedingly, abundantly above what she had asked for. And, she immediately feels so humbled. I am teary-eyed now just recounting it, and I am not someone that cries at the drop of a hat.
It's an exceedingly well-written book, and definitely one of my favorites.
I'm currently reading “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close” – it's a hard read. Brings 9/11 back to the front of my brain (I lived up in the DC area when 9/11 happened) and because of the Aspergeriness of the boy (and his father) in teh story, brings me back to my every day life with my autistic son. I'm actually going to see the movie today with a friend of mine and I can't wait.
Also really enjoyed “The Help” – but it took me a little bit to get into it. The language of the story was hard to get used to but once I did, I couldn't put it down. Was like that with The Best of Me by Nicholas Sparks too.
Oh I can't pick just one – I LOVE to read!
oops forgot my email! ([email protected]) – as an aside – for those of us that have kindles, will you purchase book books or electrinoc books?
Wow, you should work for a publisher – your description of this book is amazing!
It’s a relief to find sonemoe who can explain things so well
Thanks for the giveaway and the post. I want to go buy it now based on your synopsis, but I'll wait to see it I win 😉 I have to admit I don't read books very often and when I do they are usually non fiction books. What I'm reading now is a book I downloaded from Amazon for free(a $14.95value)for my Kindle app. It's titled Instant Self Hypnosis-How to Hypnotize Yourself with Your Eyes Open. So far I'm skeptical but intrigued.
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I read a book called the Breaking Night about a girl who overcomes the worst of circumstances to make something of herself. It is very inspiring!
I just finished the Hunger Games Trilogy. I loved it….excited to see the movie.
There are no words to describe how bodiuaocs this is.