Feeding Your Soul

Is there a safe haven for everyone? That is the question the main character Katie deals with in Nicholas Sparks’ book Safe Haven.   Sparks delivers yet again a powerful and emotional read with a twist that I have not read from him yet – suspense and mystery.   In this book, it isn’t all about love and loss. It’s about survival and protecting yourself even if the thing you are protecting yourself from is you. The novel starts with the newest resident of a small North Carolina town, Katie.   She came to Southport, NC to start over and hopes no one notices. She rents a small cottage on a gravel road out of the way and takes a waitressing job at a local watering hole.   As much as she wants to blend in people start to notice her and ask questions as Southport is a very small and tightknit community.   She befriends the local general store owner Alex and his 2 kids, Kristen and Josh.   Hints about Katie’s past start to pop-up both for herself and Alex.   She begins to shut down and do

In the original stories by the Brothers Grimm, not all were pretty and magical and had happy endings. They were bitter, dark, and cruel.   The movie Snow White and the Huntsman starring Kristen Stewart, Charlize Theron and Chris Hemsworth took the same route.   Snow White and the Huntsman begin with Snow White as a child, losing her mother and her father remarrying.   The night her father gets remarried, Ravenna kills him and takes over his kingdom locking Snow White in the north tower until she is useful.     When Snow White comes of age, Ravenna sends her brother to kill her as Snow White has become fairer than the Queen.   Snow White escapes and so begins the pursuit of Snow White by the Huntsman and the search for her by her father’s faithful following that survived the purging of the kingdom so many years ago. This was Kristen Stewart’s follow-up movie to the Twilight Series.   Was it good – was it bad? It was hard to tell.   The farther the movie progressed, the less