Heaven Is Here By Stephanie Nielson

(warning! There may be a few spoilers...!)

  Heaven is Here is a book about incredible true story of faith, hope, and love. This entire book was so incredible, and sometimes (although I tried to fake it) I even caught myself crying while reading it in class! The book is about a woman named Stephanie Nielson, a strong Mormon woman with four children who was currently living in Mesa, Arizona. In 2005, she started a blog known at the NieNie Dialogues, which became widely popular with many readers. She begins the story when she was young teen, telling her fairy tale romance story of her and her husband and him learning to fly planes. She tells a beautiful story of marriage and starting a family and her life seems absolutely perfect. 

  People envy Stephanie until she begins the next part of her story. Her accident. On August 16th, 2008, Stephanie was in a horrifying plane crash with her husband that burned forty percent of his body and hers eighty percent, sending her into a coma for three months. When she wakes up, she is horrifyingly depressed and unsure of herself. She couldn't walk, but that wasn't the worst. Stephanie's face had changed drastically. The change was so awful in fact, her daughter Jane, would not even look at her and her son whom was still a baby during the accident, thinks her sister is "Mommy".

  While I read this book I couldn't believe how incredible this woman is. She faced an unspeakable tragedy and still built back her happiness. Her relationships grew stronger, her hope grew more, and her faith was changed dramatically. I absolutely LOVED this book and recommend it to anyone who needs a lift up and good spirit. Easy A. 

If Life Were Easy, it Wouldn't be Hard By Sherri Dew

This book is really good. I enjoyed this book. It is an adult book which means for me that is what a little hard to follow. The main idea really is just don't make life harder than it should be. Try to make it simple and enjoy the little things.

      As the book goes on, it really just tells you stories to back up the little things she tells you. The biggies thing I got out of it was you really shouldn't make things harder than they really are. Try to smile and enjoy the hard times in your life. (that's what I do) But there are many other things that were stated, but I am not going to mention those.

     As I read the book, I got a little bored of how many stories she had told in it. Though this book really was just written from experience. It was good and instructive. It stated things that we should all work on in life. My opinion is that it is a good book but I don't know if kids would enjoy this. The book helps people with hard times, trials, and other big things that are in life.

      I would recommend this book to people who like adult books.

I'll Find You by Clair M. Poulson

I'll Find You, by Clair M. Poulson, is a marvelous story. Poulson has written many books that include: Vengeance, Don't Cry Wolf, Hunted, and obviously I'll Find You.

"I'll find you," are the words that 4 year old Jeri Satch said to her friend, Rusty Egan, as he was being abducted. The morning started out with the sound of children's laughter floating into the second story window as Mindy Egan was cleaning her house. Then, in a blink of an eye, Mindy Egan had seen her son, Rusty Egan, pulled into a green car and see the car vanish as it turned onto a different street. As all parents would do, Mindy Egan told her husband, Patrick Egan, to call the police as she stood in terror. From that moment on, Mindy and Patrick Egan had a prayer in their hearts that they will find Rusty and that justice will be served. But, deep down, though they would never admit it, they knew that they will never see their son, Rusty Egan, ever again...until one day when Jeri recognizes him because of his radiant blue eyes.

I'll Find You by Clair M. Poulson is an interesting book that I eventually came to love by the end. This book is a unique novel; It combines suspense, cleverness, with a little chick-flicky-ness all into one great book. In this book, Poulson has integrated many of his opinions into this epic adventure. One of which is never give up. I totally agree with Poulson. You should never give up on anything even if it might appear that you have lost everything. One of the main issues that this book brings up is that we can't judge people by their looks. This book, made me realize that in today's society, our first thought after meeting someone new is judged on their appearance. We don't take the time to actually look at the person inside. After reading this great book, my opinions changed about judging people.

Here is an example from the text to prove my point.

Pink: "I wouldn't be so interested with that guy. Ya know, he used to be an ex-convict."

Jeri: "Do you have a few minutes? I'd like to tell you a story."

(Jeri tells Pink the horrendous past of Rusty Egan.)

Pink: "I'm sorry. I didn't know. I'm indebted to you for telling me."

Pg. 174-175

For any of you readers interested in reading this book, I just want to warn you about a few things. First, this book deals a lot with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (also know as the Mormon or LDS) religion. Second, this book is extremely complicated at times, so be aware of what is happening in the story because everything important is not obvious at the beginning.