What i have been reading

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Hello sweetie pie! It sure has been a long time since I posted. Usually I read at least one book a week but I have come down with a dreadful cold that leaves me listless...so I read even more and drink tea with honey. This book is the one I just finished:

Me before You is about a young girl in England who has just lost her job due to changes in the economy and has taken on a new job as an assistant/companion to a young man who is a quadriplegic resulting from a motorbike accident.

Will is from a wealthy family and held a high power job making impossible deals come true. Lou is a free spirit. Although they butt heads in the beginning, they become sort of soul mates. The story has a Pygmalion air about it. 

The upset is that Will is planning on an assisted suicide in Switzerland. His parents are hoping that Lou will be able to change his mind in the six months that she has been hired.

This brings up again the culture of death that our society has been pushing lately, abortion being one example. 

I won't tell you the ending.

More about JoJo Moyes here.

Sandra of thistlecovefarm gave me permission to reprint this prayer here. I think it is very appropriate these days, don't you?

"Heavenly Father, 

we come before you today to ask your forgiveness and

to seek your direction and guidance.

We know Your Word says, "Woe to those who call evil good,"

but that is exactly what we have done.

We have lost spiritual equilibrium

and reversed our values.

We have exploited the poor

and called it the lottery.

We have rewarded laziness

and called it welfare.

We have killed our unborn

and called it choice.

We have shot abortionists

and called it justifiable.

We have neglected to discipline our children

and called it building self esteem.

We have abused power

and called it politics.

We have coveted our neighbor's possessions

and called it ambition.

We have polluted the air with profanity and pornography

and called it freedom of expression.

We have ridiculed the time-honored values of our forefathers

and called it enlightenment.

Search us, Oh God, and know our hearts today;

cleanse us from sin and set us free.

Amen."

~ Billy Graham ~

May the love, joy, peace and happiness of the Lord, Jesus, be with you today and always!

XOXO

A book that I have recently read

 Hi sweet friends! How was your Christmas holiday? I don't know about you, but as lovely as it was, I am glad that I can pack it all up and put it away for another year. Decorations, I mean. I sincerely hope that we can keep Christmas in our hearts all the year long.

To escape from the hustle and bustle of the holidays, I read this book by Elizabeth Berg. I loved it. It really took me away to another, more simple time. Very good read.

I am taking a break from my beloved Catherine Cookson, the very prolific British author.

For the new year, I will be adding some Southern writers to my Kindle. That is, if I can figure out how to load them. Yikes! Am I behind the times with my tech skills.

Below is the description of the book, better than I could tell you.

New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Berg takes us to Chicago at the time of World War II in this wonderful story about three sisters, their lively Irish family, and the men they love. As the novel opens, Kitty and Louise Heaney say good-bye to their boyfriends Julian and Michael, who are going to fight overseas. On the domestic front, meat is rationed, children participate in metal drives, and Tommy Dorsey and Glenn Miller play songs that offer hope and lift spirits. And now the Heaney sisters sit at their kitchen table every evening to write letters–Louise to her fiancé, Kitty to the man she wishes fervently would propose, and Tish to an ever-changing group of men she meets at USO dances. In the letters the sisters send and receive are intimate glimpses of life both on the battlefront and at home. For Kitty, a confident, headstrong young woman, the departure of her boyfriend and the lessons she learns about love, resilience, and war will bring a surprise and a secret, and will lead her to a radical action for those she loves. The lifelong consequences of the choices the Heaney sisters make are at the heart of this superb novel about the power of love and the enduring strength of family. From the Hardcover edition.

Happy New Year to you all!

blessings,

♥charlotte