Book Update.

So anyway I have been reading a few books lately I thought I might tell you about them.

The Miracles of Prato.
It was an interesting book but probably not one I would have chosen myself. You can find out what I thought about it here.

The Book Thief.
This is a book about a young girl named Liesel Meminger living in Germany in the late 30s and early 40s. She starts to take books and learns to read, from these books. It also portrays her relationships with those who live around her and how her foster family hides a Jewish fist-fighter from the Nazis. As well as her growing up.
I found this book really interesting as it gives a different perspective on that era not least because the narrator of the book is Death.

The Secret Life of Bees.
Lily Owens runs away from home with her black housekeeper in the summer of '64 when  race riots where breaking out cause of the new Civil Rights Act. She stays with the Boatwright sisters who teach her about bee keeping and she learns about her mother whom Lily believed she had killed when she was 4.
It was an interesting book because of the racial aspects but I thought there was too much wierd religion. The sisters were Catholic but with there own rituals added in and it seemed to me that it was completely devoid of God and the whole focus was on Mary, like she had God's power. I googled the author and found out she had journeyed into feminine spirituality and I found it kind of wierd.

So the next book I will read is The Time Traveler's Wife.

This is quite amusing.

I found this on you tube and thought I would share it with my blog readers.

30 days of blogging - Day 30 - Your favourite song.

My favourite song is hard to decide so I'll tell you a list of my faourite songs.
If you believe me - Relient K
Deathbed - Relient K
More than Useless - Relient K
I am understood - Relient K
Gone - Switchfoot
In the light - DC Talk
I can't think of any more at the moment.

30 days of blogging - Day 29 - In this past month, what have you learned

In the past month I learnt thaqt I am still a private person there are some things that I don't like to share, and that I feel uncomfortable sharing. I also learnt that I still have trouble keeping up with things I have committed to sometimes, especially if they are not essential.

I also realised again that I love my family and that they are really important to me.

30 days of blogging - Day 28 - A picture of you last year and now, how have you changed since then?



So how have I changed well I've had my ears pierced. I think I've lost some weight. I have finished my TAFE course. My mother told me that I have matured a whole heap in the last 12 months. I guess I also feel a lot better about myself ( most of the time ).

30 Days of Blogging - Day 27 - Why are you doing this 30 day challenge

I am doing this challenge because I have been highly irregular about doing posts on my blog and I thought that if I did this then it would get me into the habit of blogging more regularly. It has been interesting and I will try and more regularly post now.

30 days of blogging - Day 26 - What you think about your friends

I love my friends or else why would I be friends with them?
I think they are loyal and funny and just great to be around. They are always coming up with great ideas and good just to be with cause they make me laugh.

30 days of Blogging - Day 25 - What I would find in your bag

Depending on which bag you looked in you would find
my waller, my phone, receipts and move tickets, keys, pens, random bits of paper, a $2 coin, note pad, lip balm, other stuff I can't think of right now.

30 days of blogging - Day 24 - A letter to your parents

Dear Mum and Dad,
I just wanted to say thank you for being my parents I love you guys so much. I also wanted to thank you for introducing me to God who is perfect and understand's everything that is happening.
I know that you love me and that you want what's best for me but sometimes I feel that you are expecting me to do things your way and that you are not letting me work out the way that is right for me to do things. Yes, you are older that me and therefore have more experience in this world that I do but we all need to learn our own way even if that does include making mistakes.
I'm sorry that I don't always show you that I love you but I want you to know that I really do, and I just have to work out how to do things myself.
God bless
Elizabeth

30 Days of blogging - Day 23 - Something you crave for a lot

I often feel hungry so I get wierd food cravings.
I also often crave getting out and doing something different, like getting out of the rut that I am in.
I suppose I also crave a job.

30 Days of Blogging - Day 22 - What makes you different from everyone else

Well everyone is unique so I'm different from everyone else in that way.
Also I have a harmless pattern on my rettinas but it is different from the other ones that people have but it is most similar to bear track pattern.
I had a benign cancer removed from my chin a while ago and it was very unusual, the doctor had never seen it before and had to look it up in his book.
I read an interesting range of books, fantasy, historical fantasy, (Christian) Chick Lit, biographies, Christian Self help and anything else that takes my fancy.

30 days of blogging - Day 21 - A picture of something that makes you happy

This is my gorgeous niece and she is getting so big. It makes me happy to watch her grow and develop and see all the new things she is learning.

30 days of blogging - Day 20 - Someone you see yourself marrying/being with in the future

I don't really know who I would like to be with/marry in the future. I would like to get married someday though. I'm just trusting God that he will bring along the right person at the right time.

30 Days of Blogging - Day 19 - Nicknames you have; why do you have them

Blizzard - cause when my sister was little she used to call Blizabeth and so the rest of the family called me Blizzard.

Feth/Feth-a-leth - my brother sometimes doesn't like to say the letter B.

Biff - mhy other brother likes to play around with being Kiwi and stuff

Fliz/Flizabeth - my sister had to do a biography on someone she knew for school and she chose to do me when she was writing it in her book she accidentally put an F at the beginning instead of and E and since then she sometimes calls me that ... and she is the only one who is allowed to.

30 Days of Blogging - Day 18 - Plans/dreams/goals you have

Some of the Plans Dreams and Goals that I have:
Get a job - full time/permanent position.
I would also love to to get a Librarian degree at uni.
One day I would also love to travel around Australia and the world especially Europe.
I can't think of anything else right now.

30 Days of Blogging - Day 17 - Someone you would want to switch lives with for one day and why

Keeley Hawes  - cause then I could be married to Matthew McFadyen ... jokes!
I can't really think of anyone, my life is not perfect but anyone else I think of does not have a perfect life, so I just want to be thankful for what God has given me and where he has put me.

30 Days of Blogging - Day 16 - Another picture of yourself

This is from 2007 but it is still me.

30 Days of Blogging - Day 15 - Put your iPod on shuffle: First 10 songs that play

Angels We have heard on high - Chris Tomlin (Unexpected Gifts)
All My Tears - Jars of Clay
Change My Ways - Antiskeptic
Everything You Ever Wanted - Hawk Nelson
College Kids - Relient K
Apathetic Way to Be - Relient K
Bring 'Em Out - Hawk Nelson
Adding to the Noise - Switchfool
Remnant - The Fold
Coming Attractions - Steven Curtis Chapman

30 days of blogging - Day 14 - A picture of you and your family.

I know that this Pic has more than just my immediate family but it is one I could find with my whole immediate family.