Just an addition to the top 5: I just found the trailer of this amazing book I read and reviewed recently, The Indigo Notebook by Laura Resau (I am reading her book What the moon saw now.) The music in this video is just even as awesome as the book..
The 40 year old Ginger Walsh lives with her cat, who is named Boyfriend, in an apartment above her parents garage. Ginger soon has to move out and find a new place to live and a career that fits her, because her parents are going to sell the house. Ginger's soon to be- boyfriend is glassblower Noah, but Ginger thinks Noah has forget all about her because he lives in his own glassblowing world.
Lots of amazingly fun book events this week!
And then a little personal 'event'. I danced around the room (my neighbours aren't happy with me I guess because it was really late!) when I read this amazing news that I am picked as a winner!Congrats and hurray for Danielle Joseph, because her book Shrinking Violet is In Print again!!
What happened to Jennifer's best friend Cameron? Cameron suddenly dissapeared when they where both in primary school. Suddenly he didn't came to school anymore, and some said that he had died, even Jennifer's mom said that he suddenly died. Jennifer goes to high school, and changes her name to Jenna, to make a new start.
In this final book in the Mediator series, Suze has to help Jesse and find out more about Paul Slater (another Mediator who bothers her, but somehow helps her too..)To help Jesse ''move on'' Suze has to shift herself back to the past, when Jesse was almost murdered by Diego, because Jesse and Diego both wanted to marry Maria back in 1800. But then she maybe has to say farewell forever to Jesse, who was her bedroom ghost and who is the guy she really loves. Because when Jesse wasn't murdered, he wouldn't have been a ghost who is stuck in an in between fase between life and really dead. Suze has to make final and though decisions in Twilight, and if it all would be an happy ending..
TRUSTING IN YOURSELF
Trusting your own gut feelings is one of the best gifts we possess. We all get that little ‘twinge’ when something just isn’t right. When that happens…LISTEN TO IT! Trust yourself or your ‘gut’ some call it. Trust it at all times, it will never steer you wrong.
When I was young I lived in the inner-city. The neighborhood I called home, had gangs, drugs, muggers, killers, and lots of kids and family nearby. However, with all of these things present, I didn’t realize that my gut instincts were strengthening with each day I played outside, walked to school, to the bus, or traveled the city alone.
I never understood why my grandmother, affectionately named NaNa, didn’t want me to leave my block to go to the store alone. Or why, I wasn’t allowed to cut through the alleys to get to my cousin’s house, and the numerous lists of things I was told to watch out for.
My main character in EXPLORER X – Alpha realizes that something isn’t quite right with the immunization he is given. Aadi takes the initiative and asks the Doctor why it is being given to him.. In addition to this finding, Aadi confirms his concerns with others..
Here are some steps to take in trusting yourself in all things;
LISTEN TO THAT ‘TWINGE’ IN YOUR GUT
When you are in a situation with a friend or an adult, and you get that feeling that something isn’t quite right, then you are most likely correct. Learn yourself, and test this ability.
Take this example for instance. Your friend tells you that you should sneak out to go to that great party that so-and-so is going to, but you feel this tickle in your tummy before you hesitate. This is your gut talking to you. It’s telling you … hold on … don’t jump into this.
Listen to it. Find out how your gut talks to you. Think of all those times you got into major trouble, and ponder over what you felt just before you did the deed that got you into that mess. That’s how you learn how your psyche talks to you.
TAKE A STEP BACK, AND ASK QUESTIONS
Never, ever, feel like you don’t have the right to ask a question. Asking a question only gets you in trouble when it hasn’t been asked, or the person of whom you are asking the question doesn’t want to give you an answer.
Don’t think I’m right on this? Test it, and think back to times when the person of whom you asked a question reacted negatively. In most cases, it is because they don’t want to give you an answer.
Asking the question is never, ever wrong. You have the right. So use it when you are in those situations where your gut is telling you that something is just not adding up.
IF IT DOESN’T ADD UP THEN IT DOESN’T ADD UP
When something doesn’t make sense, or the story just sounds down right disjointed, and your gut is telling you that something is off. Then trust your gut, something is off.
This is a saying my Nana used to tell me when I would give her a scenario of what a friend told me, or did to me.
“Honey, if it doesn’t add up, it won’t add up. Something is definitely not right with that story.”
Do you know in each instance she said this, she was absolutely correct.
TAKE ACTION
If you get that feeling something isn’t right take action.
In EXPLORER X – Alpha Aadi and Eirena, his co-pilot investigated their gut feeling that something is off about their camp with their team. They find that terrible things have been done to them.
There are several ways to take action. Here are some;
- Just tuck the knowledge away, and wait for the truth to reveal itself. Believe it or not this happens a lot in life. The truth has a way of coming out. Sometimes it happens quickly, and sometimes it takes a long, long time.
- Ask questions. Don’t be afraid to ask questions in order to get the answers you want. You can ask anyone questions, and that may solve the mystery.
- Run away or stay away. If you are in a situation where an adult or a peer appears to be leading you in a direction that you feel is not safe. Run. There is no harm in running away from or staying away from someone.
TAKE ACTION
Realize that you have control of your destiny. No matter what happens to you in your life, you can learn from it all and become a better person. Making the same mistakes will become harder the more you learn to trust your gut instincts, and yourself.
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I loved the book Very Valentine by Adriana Trigiani. So I was really happy to read (just a few minutes ago) that there is a sequel coming up called Brava Valentine.And the cover is just even as gorgeous as Very Valentine, a book I can totally recommend to everyone!
There's a new girl in Allie's class. Cheyenne. Cheyenne comes from Canada and Allie has to give up her seat up front in class for Cheyenne so she can feel more at home in her new class.
The thirteen year old Lakshmi lives with her mom and stepfather in a small rural village on a hill in Nepal. The family is poor, and after a very bad monsoon her father tells her mother that they have to send Lakshmi away to the city so she can work as a maid for rich people and send money back to home.
One night Sopie's stepdad gets a call. A little 6 year old boy had been found in the desert, after his family tried to cross the Mexican-American border. The crossing did not went well and the family died because dehydration and the harsh desert. They visit the little boy (whose name is Pablo) in the hospital and they take him into the family. The family exists of Sophie, her mom, Juan (her mom's new husband) and Dika, Sophie's aunt who survived the war in Bosnia.
Four New York teens, Nick, Patch, Lauren and Phoebe are students at Cartridge school, a school for the more privileged kids. They al receive mysterious text messages to appear at a night at a certain location on Gansevoort Street. That evening they all are initiated into 'The Society'' where they all get an ankh tattooed on the back of their necks. All four students have goals they want to reach, one wants to be a filmmaker, one wants to become an intern at a fashion designer..and it seems they get all that they want, because of the network of the secret society. But they didn't asked to be initiated and he backside of the society becomes clear and it seems the four teens are watched in everything they do. When two guys who are friends with the four suddenly dissapear and a body is found in Central Parkthe teens want to know more about the society wich they never can get out of, but will they discover the secret?
