Feeding Your Soul

215.  The number of books I have read (which is probably more but I can’t remember every book I read during my school years).  385.  The number I have on my to-read list as of March 22 2016.  With both those numbers, how many books is too many books? Can someone have too many books on their shelf that they are currently reading, waiting to read, or read? Is that even a question? I have asked myself this question every time someone asks me what I am reading. I answer with the current book I have in my hand or on my Nook and usually follow up with how many I have on my to-read list to give people a picture of how diverse my reading interests are. I have everything from crime novels to young adult fantasy to historical fiction on my to-read list. Reading for me started when I was young, way before I found the magic that came out of the light box as my niece used to call it. Reading would take me away from my world and inject me into a place where an...

Since I finished the book I have been racking my brain trying to come up with a solid explanation why Roth ended the series the way she did.  Is it to teach everyone that no matter what happens the human race will mend each other? Is it to show us that no matter what someone does to you family will always come first? Or is it to show that no matter what bad things happen?  I fear that I will never know the answer to why she ended it the way she did. All I know is I do not like it and that is the choice I make. Allegiant picks up a few days after the end of Insurgent – Tris and her friends are being held in Erudite headquarters after the display of a video explaining that the world they live in not reality.  The world they live in was concocted as a way to save human kind from itself. War broke out generations ago and the only way to save everyone was to create their world. Once the level of special people – aka the Divergent – was high enough they would know to go ...