Because I Am Furniture

Author: Thalia Chaltas

Title: Because I Am Furniture

GoodReads.com Review: Anke’s father is abusive. But not to her. He attacks her brother and sister, but she’s just an invisible witness in a house of horrors, on the brink of disappearing altogether. Until she makes the volleyball team at school. At first just being exhausted after practice feels good, but as Anke becomes part of the team, her confidence builds. When she learns to yell “Mine!” to call a ball, she finds a voice she didn’t know existed. For the first time, Anke is seen and heard. Soon, she’s imagining a day that her voice will be loud enough to rescue everyone at home—including herself.

This book is such a good and easy read, I honestly finished it within two hours... althought I started reading at 3 in the morning.. thats quite alright! I personally just love reading books where the characters find there personal inner strength especially in situations such as this one. Who would of thought that a sport could bring that out in someone. This book worked because not only was the character finding strength in herself but she was also growing as a woman which in times like these where "family time" is somewhat scarce is very inspiring.

I also love the author because she dedicates this book " To my mother, my brother, and sister. I write now what i could not do then." If anyone has a couple hours to spare.. you need to read this book!!

I also need some more books to read... any ideas??

TEASER TUESDAYS!

Teaser Tuesday is hosted by MizB over at Should Be Reading.

Anyone can play along. Just do the following:-Grab your current read.- Open to a random page.- Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page.-BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)-Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

Author:Thalia Chaltas

Title: Because I am Furniture

Teaser: " I can't remember when it started when firm hand became fisted liege became feral tyrannical rage more important than the rest of us, but it didn't used to be this way and that keeps us tied to him, guessing, teetering, waiting, while stepping around his anger in the middle of the room."

I did finished this book last night within two hours... simply amazing! I will put a review up soon but I just had to put a TEASER up!!

Review: Hold Me Tight

Author: Lorie Ann Grover

Title: Hold Me Tight

Other Titles: Loose Threads, One Pointe

GoodReads.com Review: Dad's words come as a complete shock to Essie. How can he just walk out on her and the family, especially when Mom is pregnant?
Essie keeps her dad's leaving a secret. Then Essie's classmate, Chris Crow, disappears, and everyone finds out he's been kidnapped. Is Chris okay? Is Dad ever coming back? Essie is left to wonder if people really have any control over what happens in their lives.
Finally, after a startling incident with a family friend, Essie finds the strength to hold on tight to all that she has left -- and in the process realizes that the bonds of love and family do hold a person together.
Inspired by true events, Hold Me Tight is a moving and powerful novel. An author's note provides further information about kidnapping and the Amber Plan programs that are in use today to help communities find abducted children.

My Review: Although I'm not considered really old.. or old at all since I will only be twenty in August.. But I do remember when divorce wasn't common and in my somewhat small town. There was only a handful of kids that had divorced parents and now there are more children with divorced parents than there are that don't. This book shows what goes through a childs head when dealing with things such as divorce. Grover does such an amazing job on explaining how children have such mixed emotions about such situations when they try to understand the whole reasoning behind divorce.

Being one of those children who was lost in those emotions at seven years old and dealing with a single parent and seeing the difficulties trying to survive and yet being smart enough to question how god works in these situations. But not only does it focus on divorce but also kidnapping and the start of the AMBER alert system.

**If you do have divorced or seperated parents this is the book for you!! If I had to write a book about how my parents divorce effected me it would be very similiar to this**

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So since i'm still new to this entire blogging thing.. most of you have beautiful pages and headers.. any tips??

REVIEW: Living Dead Girl

Holy cow... I finished this book in honestly 2 hours.. "Living Dead Girl" by Elizabeth Scott is a heart throbbing novel about a young girl who is living her younger years like any other girl. She get abducted by a horrid man named Ray who brainwashes her and mentally, physically, and sexually abuses her. The way Scott writes makes you feel as if you are actually the young girl named Alice when she hurts.. you hurt.. If you are the kind of reader that likes these books this one is for you!! Alice compares herself to the crazy women on early morning TV shows that speak out about being treated the same way as Alice has but just couldn't get away.
What makes this book so amazing is the role of power. Throughout it Alice is convinced that Ray has all the power... when in reality she is the powerful one.

Its a great book.. very inspiring and makes you not want to be the people that just look the other way.

First POST!!!

Okay so.. I've always lost track on how many books I read and which ones I've read.. I used to write it all down on paper.. until I lost almost every piece I wrote on!! I just finished "Living Dead Girl" by Elizabeth Scott and I have to say she is ranking up there with Ellen Hopkins for sure!!
I'm going to start reading a book by Lisa Schroeder! WISH ME LUCK!!!