Bookses, precious!

Need something new to read? Here a some great books for you to put on your "next trip to the library or bookstore" list:

The Two Princesses of Bamarre by Gail Carson Levine
Sorry, I just had to mention this one. It's one of my all time favorite books. It's a funny, heart-warming story about finding courage in times of cowardice. Also to check out by this author, Ella Enchanted.

Christy by Catherine Marshall
An inspirational classic, this is the story of 19-year-old Christy Huddleston, who in the year of 1912 goes to work as a teacher in the remote village of Cutter Gap, far back in the Tenessee mountains. There she learns lessons about love for God and other people by living with, working with, and befriending the fascinating, complex mountain-dwellers.

All For The Love of Mothers: Memoirs of a Catholic Midwife by Lisbeth Burger
An absolutely wonderful book, composed of true stories and anecdotes told from the view of a Catholic midwife working in Germany. As a midwife in a relatively small town, she was closely assosciated with the families she helped and many of the other women around confided in her. With true stories taken from the lives of these women and their family, she illustrates an unabashedly Catholic view of chastity, abortion, marriage, and child-raising. A great book. I'd recommend it only to people 15 and over, as it deals with some rather mature topics.

Lady Susan by Jane Austen
Probably the least-known of her works, this is Austen's tale of a scheming, scornful woman and the people she tries to manipulate. It's written in epistolary style, which makes it really interesting because we get the story from virtually every character's point of view.


Have any books you'd like to recommend? Comment and let us know!

P.S.
A great way to get the classics, for free! Go to librivox.org, where you can download audio versions of books onto your computer and even your mP3 player. Only books that are in the public domain (i.e., published before 1923. For more information go here).

It's just, for the first time, I feel...

WICKED!

Yes, that's right folks.

I.

Saw.

WICKED!

And, oh my goodness, was it amazing! I started crying during "For Good" cuz I'm a baby with no life. LOL

Pics and more details coming soon! <3

Ooops

OK. So. Hopefully I'll have the picture up of the AWESOME PRIZE for our AWESOME CONTEST on Monday or Tuesday! Mmkay? Mmkay.

So. Katie came to visit me for MY birthday! Awesome, no?

Coming up!

OK, let's face it. We've been neglecting this blog and we are terribly sorry. We're seriously going to try to post here more. Right, Katie? Anyways. We are having a... CONTEST!! Sometime over this weekend we'll post a picture. Whoever comes up with the best caption for it will recieve a lovely bookmark with a Celtic blessing on it. Up to two entries per person. More details later with a picture of the bookmark.
Also coming soon! Graphic art by the Katies! Must-read books! Hopefully, some more interviews.
Farewell for now!

-The Other (although technically real, being older) Katie

YAYAYAA

I'm posting the 50th post.

Just cuz I'm cool like that O.O

New New Header

Eh.....it didn't come out too well, did it? I'll try to find a way to make it fit better. Or I'll make Katie fix it. :-P She has better picture-editing stuff than I have.

Happy 4th of July!

Happy Independence Day!! Today is the day when the Declaration of Independence was signed. Or rather, they started to sign it. Technically, it took a few weeks for all 56 signatures to find their way to the Declaration. But this day is important anyways, because the 4th of July started it all. Not everybody may like the direction our country is going in these days, but even though we have our differences politically, you have to admit that this is pretty good place to live.


God Bless America!


-The Katies