Cross Roads

This weeks PRABE  journey found me with an author that I have met before, W. Paul Young. Years ago  I read Shack, an awesome piece of Christian fiction that I still think about from time to time. When I found out that there was another book I just hd to pick it up!

Cross roads is the story of Anthony Spenser, a paranoid businessman that did not believe in God after the tragic passing of his parents and later his first born son. The book follows Anthony from a restless night followed by the shocking discovery of a terminal tumor that leaves him in a coma. It is in the coma that Tony comes face to face with God and is forced to connect who he has become with the choices that he made.

The book was a blessing, there were passages that I highlighted to meditate later and I really enjoyed reading it.

Reading Log
3/30 9-11:00p.m.
3/31 2 p.m - 5 p.m.
 

The Host

This week I buried myself into the Host during my Prabe time. The movie will be coming out Friday and I HAVVVVVVE to read a book before I see a movie if one is available.

When I picked up The Host and noted that it was by the Stephenie Meyer, the Author of the Twilight Saga, I was not sure that it would live up to the hype (I will not offer my final opinion, in case you desire to read it), but it was an interesting read.

The story takes place in the United States, well a United States that has been taken over by an alien life form that implants itself in the bodies of human beings and continues to live inside the body, or host. The alien forms in human bodies desire to eradicate war, disease, pain and want to go on living peaceable lives. That is until Melody, a host that does not plan to go out without a fight.

I am excited to see the movie this weekend, hopefully they do it justice!


Prabe Journal

3/18 - 9 p.m - 11:30
3/19 - 11 a.m. - Noon
3/20 - 10:15 - Midnight

Fifty Shades...

This week I have been a reading ANIMAL. I decided to undertake the Fifty Shades trilogy by E.L. James and it was quite a read!

The book has been marketed, mainly to women, as erotica with a twist but to me that is not quite what it was. Do not get me wrong, there were a few scenes I had to skip over but at the heart of the Novel was an unsuspected love story between a Billionaire, Christian Grey and a recent college graduate, Anastasia Steele.

I don't want to give the story away but I will say that it had all the elements of a GREAT NOVEL, love, hate, arson, plane crashes, ex-es that will not go away, nosey family members and suspense.





Reading Log
3/7 10 p.m - 2a.m
3/9 930pm - 330a.m.

Wench - A Novel

The book that I have been reading this week is for a book club that I just happen to be the Head of. It is called Wench by Dolen Perkins-Valdez. 

The book is set during Slavery at a Resort in Ohio called the Tawawa House.  The Tawawa house was a place that Slave Owners could take their Slave Mistresses in a free state and bed them without any stigma or recompense. 

In the chapters that I have read thus far, the slave women are discussing why they have not tried to run away since it is a free state and they come every year. At this point the book is very interesting because it is shedding light, in a fictional way on a part of slavery that is not often talked about. There is a part of the book where one of the slaves is pregnant and she gives birth to an obviously mulatto baby that dies after a few days. It was hard to read because since she was a slave she was not quite comforted by her master but you could tell that there was an affection. 

During another part of the book, one of the new slave girls to the Tawawa house was plotting an escape. Before she could leave, one of the returning slaves told her master and caused the other slave to be whipped. It was a very hard scene but it also spoke to the aspect of slavery that allowed for groups of people to be imprisoned by the few for so many years, fear and self loathing.

Log:

2/24 - 9:00pm - 10:10p.m

2/27 - 11:ooam - 11:50 a.m. 

3/1 - 10:00pm - 11:00 p.m