Feeding Your Soul

In my experience, you either love or hate Nicholas Sparks. Even if you hate him, it is a loving hate because he writes such powerful and emotional love stories.   In his book, The Choice I have a loving hate for him this time around mainly because for the first time while reading one of his books, I have someone in my life who I think about when reading.   The Choice tells the story of Travis, a veterinarian in South Carolina and Gabby, a physician’s assistant at a small practice in the same town.   The novel starts with the present Travis reminiscing about how he met Gabby and fell in love.   Only later when the novel comes back to the present does the reader fully understand the meaning of love and what Travis was thinking when he thought of the past. The book kept me thinking the whole time.   I found myself having to reread passages to see if my hunches were correct.   As Sparks moved from the present to the past back to the present, he wove a story about love that transc

The New Year has come and gone without much fanfare for this blogger.   New Year’s was spent with close friends, at home and in bed by 12:05am.   It was a great, relaxing and inexpensive New Year’s.   As 2012 came to a close that night I realized that I had yet to make any resolutions.   I was in shock.   How could I have forgotten about the most important part of my year – planning!   Well here it is a few days late but here nonetheless.   2013 promises to be the best year on record. Not just for me but for my fiancée. We are getting married this year. 9 months and counting.   All of my resolutions this year revolve around my wedding – getting healthier, saner and less stressed.   In the past few years I haven’t been able to keep many of my resolutions except for reading and writing because I love to do those things. Even though I haven’t read 26 books every year I never gave up and won’t this year.     Goodreads.com makes that resolution easy.   They have a 2013 Reading Challe