The Mercy of Thin Air

I started to read a new book this week. "The Mercy of Thin Air" by, Ronlyn Domingue.
I just about half way through and I LOVE it! The story takes place in present day and flashes back to the 1920's. A couple find and old bookcase at an estate sale and purchased it for their home. 
Razi drowned in 1929, in the pool of her first and only love, Andrew, she was now a ghost traveling the in between. The bookcase once belonged to Andrew and when it opened, Andrews essence was released and prompted Razi to follow the bookcase back to Scott and Amy's house. Razi watches the couple and plays a few tricks on them. I get so sad to think of Razi, not being able to really communicate with the living, and the way she loved Andrew. When she died and met a friend in the "in between" she was told she shouldn't see Andrew, to just leave him alone to heal, so she lost track of him through the years, then goes on a search for him. I'm not giving anything else away with this one. I love how the book tells two powerful stories at once and how they become linked. Great book!
Reading log:
Monday 1:00pm-2:00pm
Tuesday 8:00pm-10:00pm
Thursday 10:00am-12:00pm 

The Notebook

Well, I switched it up this week. I feel like lately I have been reading a lot of dark and sort of negative books. When I do this, all it takes to get me to snap out of it and brighten up is" The Notebook" by Nicholas Sparks. Sometimes I just need to read about the incredible love Nicholas Sparks writes about. I'm sure most of you have probably watched the movie or read the book, I don't know about all of you, but this book never gets old. I always cry, it never fails. The book is slightly different from the movie but they are both amazing. I'm a happy ending kind of person, a movie or book can be great throughout but if there isn't a happy ending, it's no good to me. In my opinion, we deal with horrible things on a daily basis. Most people don't get a happy ending, nothing in reality happens as it does in great books or movies, so if I'm going to escape into a different world when I read at night, I want a happy ending to smile at when I'm finished.
Reading Log
Monday-8:30pm-10:30pm
Wednesday-9:00pm-10:30pm
Thursday-5:00pm-6:00pm

I haven't read a whole lot of the book I started this week. Instead, I did a lot of reading on the chemicals and hormones that are in our food. Now, I'm a pretty healthy eater. I try to eat organic as much as possible, we eat a lot of fruits and vegetables and all the good stuff. I was catching up on my DR. Oz and caught an episode from a while ago about fish. Apparently when we go to the grocery store and buy fish, or order lets say Tuna from a restaurant we are only getting what we order about 10% of the time! We're actually purchasing something lower grade and sometimes fish that's extremely unhealthy for us. So after that I have been reading everything from organic living magazines, to tons of websites about what is in our food. Here are a few super crazy facts I found: Aspartame, found in artificial sweeteners is made form genetically modified bacteria and can cause neurological disorders, seizures, blurred vision and migraines. The BPA that if in most of the plastic packaging food comes in has been known to cause cancer, infertility, hormone disorders, and promotes male breast growth. Sodium Nitrate is added to every kind of processed meat we purchase, bacon, sausage, lunch meat, and so on. Sodium Nitrate is strongly linked to brain tumors, pancreatic cancer, and colon cancer! That's just to name a few, I have learned about a couple of these in a nutrition class about 6 years ago but completely forgot how horrible our food is for our health. I so glad that my family and I have chosen to not only eat organic but also most of our household cleaners, soaps, and shampoo are also organic!

Reading log
Monday 1:00-2:30
Wednesday 9:00 am- 11:00 am
Saturday 4:00-5:00

Somebody Else's Daughter

I finally went to the Goodwill to purchase a few books, I picked up three to keep me occupied for the next couple weeks. I just started reading, "Somebody Else's Daughter". The story starts off a father narrating a story for his daughter that he and his wife gave up for adoption. The beginning is really sad, Cat, the baby's mother and her father were heroin addicts and meet at a crack house. When she got pregnant she discovered she had HIV. The nurses told her she wouldn't know if the baby had it for a few months. Her father describes the disgusting apartment they lived in and how social workers kept coming over urging them to give their baby up. When they finally decided to give her up for adoption Cat insists on driving to Massachusetts to meet her new parents. On the way there Cat was so sick and could hardly move while the baby cried in the back seat and the father stopped to score some heroin. When they finally arrived to the new parents' house, Cat wouldn't go inside, when he came out Cat was dead in the car. This story makes me  sad, I know that this sort of thing happens everyday in real life, people using drugs, getting sick and selfishly having babies. I'm also sad for Cat, having to give up her child and knowing she will soon be dead. My husband and I are lucky enough to have a beautiful, healthy daughter, but we also suffer from secondary infertility. When I hear stories of drug abusers having babies it makes me a little upset, but glad that they gave her up to someone who struggles with getting pregnant. I think  I'll enjoy getting deeper into this book, and I'll get some more reading time this weekend!

Reading Log
Tuesday 7:00pm-8:00pm
Friday 9:00am- 10:00am