Girls of RiyadhGirls of Riyadh was originally written as emails sent throughout the Arabic world anonymously, they tell the story of four girls who grew up in the ' velvet society ' of Riyadh. If this had been a story about four boys or men growing up, no one would have even blinked an eye, but it wasn't, it was about four girls, then women. This of course started a huge uproar. No one writes about the secret ongoings of what women in this country do. No one knows what happens in their private affairs, and the worst part is no one knows what these women feel.
Reading this book, made me look at some of those women in a whole new light, they are no different than you in me, emotionally. They want to love a man worthy of love, and want to be loved by a man who she deserves. They want a happy home, with children and comfort. They do not want to be these stupid slave wives that have walked the streets for generations before them. But they also do not want to wait for this love to never come along and they end u being spinsters.
This book told the tale of these four girls, and what love filled their hearts and what heartbreak befouled them. It showed their strength in friendship, and their weakness in knowledge of life matters. The courage these girls possessed and what blind faith drove them at times, oh how I loved this book. There were times when reading this and a man in the story had done something vile towards one of the women, and my poor husband got the rotten end of that, for I was so mad at Rashid ( Gamrah's husband ) that I yelled at my own husband. It just wasn't fair for her to be treated that way.
This book made me feel more powerful as a woman, knowing what these women have to deal with, and all the losses they suffer, yet they still go on. I know that if they can do then so can I. I may not be suffering the way they have and possibly still are, but I still deal with crap on a daily basis, and yet I will persevere :)
This is a book I would recommend to all of my women friends, especially the ones who have to deal with asshole of husbands at times :)
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Angelology
Danielle Trussoni
Sister Evangeline was just a girl when her father entrusted her to the Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration in upstate New York. Now, at twenty-three, her discovery of a 1943 letter from the famous philanthropist Abigail Rockefeller to the late mother superior of Saint Rose Convent plunges Evangeline into a secret history that stretches back a thousand years: an ancient conflict between the Society of Angelologists and the monstrously beautiful descendants of angels and humans, the Nephilim.
For the secrets these letters guard are desperately coveted by the once-powerful Nephilim, who aim to perpetuate war, subvert the good in humanity, and dominate mankind. Generations of angelologists have devoted their lives to stopping them, and their shared mission, which Evangeline has long been destined to join, reaches from her bucolic abbey on the Hudson to the apex of insular wealth in New York, to the Montparnasse cemetery in Paris and the mountains of Bulgaria.
Rich in history, full of mesmerizing characters, and wondrously conceived, Angelology blends biblical lore, the myth of Orpheus and the Miltonic visions of Paradise Lost into a riveting tale of ordinary people engaged in a battle that will determine the fate of the world.
*this is not my review
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The Dark Tower Series
Stephen King
In the story, Roland Deschain is the last living member of a knightly order known as gunslingers and the last of the line of "Arthur Eld", his world's analogue of King Arthur. The world he lives in is quite different from our own, yet it bears striking similarities to it. Politically organized along the lines of a feudal society, it shares technological and social characteristics with the American Old West but is also magical. While the magical aspects are largely gone from Mid-World, some vestiges of them remain, along with the relics of a highly advanced, but long vanished, society. Roland's quest is to find the Dark Tower, a fabled building said to be the nexus of all universes. Roland's world is said to have "moved on", and indeed it appears to be coming apart at the seams±—mighty nations have been torn apart by war, entire cities and regions vanish without a trace and time does not flow in an orderly fashion. Even the Sun sometimes rises in the north and sets in the east. As the series opens, Roland's motives, goals and age are unclear, though later installments shed light on these mysteries
* this is not review
The Gunslinger
The Drawing of the Three
The Waste Lands
Wizard and Glass
Wolves of Calla
Song of Susannah
The Dark Tower
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Left Behind Series
Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins
When the trumpet sounds, where will you be? Passengers in an airborne Boeing 747 find out in this riveting novel by renowned Christian speaker Tim LaHaye and master storyteller Jerry Jenkins. Without any warning, passengers mysteriously disappear from their seats. Terror and chaos slowly spread not only through the plane but also worldwide as unusual events continue to unfold. For those who have been left behind, the apocalypse has just begun. This fictional account of life after the Rapture delivers an urgent call to today's readers to prepare their own hearts and minister to others.
*this is not my review
Left Behind
Tribulation force
Nicolae
Soul Harvest
Apollyon
Assassins
The Indwelling
The Mark
Desecration
The Remnant
Armageddon
Glorious Appearing
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The Dark Hunter Series
Sherrilyn Kenyon
I am honestly not sure exactly how many books are in this series. Haha, I know that there are at least 20. But with that being said, they are 20 awesome books. Sherrilyn Kenyon did an amazing job with this series, and I am absolutely glad I picked up that first book. These books have a little bit of everything in them, vampires, demons, Gods & Goddesses, weres of every kind. Oh and quite a bit of..um.. romance :) I would recommend these books mostly to my woman readers ( adult women ONLY ), there are many men to fall in love with in this series. Enjoy.
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Anya Bast
This is another paranormal series, I liked the first two books extremely well, and the third was my fav. The fourth of course was hard to get into, mainly because the third was my fav. :)
These stories are about witches, of course, which is a nice change from the vamp and were paranormal that everyone is eating up these days. Being Elemental means they have the power over the elements. I.E. Earth, Air, Fire, and Water. That def lead to my liking this series more. I have always loved anything to do with the elements.
Throughout the series we follow a new main char in each book but all the old ones that we fell in love with in the previous books are still there. There is a greater good to be won, and it becomes increasingly harder to win it. Love is sometimes the only thing that can get someone through a certain situation. But not everyone seems to want love.
I recommend this book to adults only, especially my female adult friends :)
Witch Fire
Witch Blood
Witch Heart
Witch Fury
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