One week in One Post!

Well ok almost one week. My Blog day monday post, i have decided is going to be my previous post. The rest shall be in this one!

So for Tuesday's Photo of the week here it is!!

This is a photo of and taken by my good Friend Megan Wilson. If you like i strongly advise that you go take a look at her facebook page!

https://www.facebook.com/meganwilsonphotos/photos_stream

Theres the link! give it a peek and a like, and yeah.


On to Top 10 wednesday!

Top ten books i have recently read!
(honestly i havnt ranked these at all, theyres just 10 of them in no order at all)

10) Wake (Amanda Hocking)
9) Lullaby (Amanda Hocking)
8) Tidal  (Amanda Hocking)
7) Percy Jackson and the Olympians The Lightening Thief (Rick Rioridan)
6) Percy Jackson and the Olympians The Sea of Monsters (Rick Rioridan)
5) Percy Jackson and the Olympians: Titans Curse (Rick Rioridan)
4) My sister's Keeper (Jodi Picoult)
3)Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone (J.K. Rowling)
2) The Fault in our stars (John Green)
1)The Hunger Games (Suzanne Collins)

Thursdays is Vlogs day, but im not Vlogging today. Get over it.

and of Course Friday is tomorrow, so ill do that part then!

I am just amazed that in the past year ive read ALOT! more than 10 books!! and ive been journalling a lot too!

Sorry i just needed a self realization moment.

Well i suppose i had best pack up before Starbucks kicks me out. See you tomorrow for our Video of the week!

-H

The truth about standards

It is absolutely no secret to say that we are our worst critics, way too hard on ourselves, but here's the honest to god truth ladies. Not only are we way too hard on ourselves, we are too hard on men too!

I'll be the first to admit, that not so long ago, if somebody were to ask me about my perfect man, i would roll off my list of qualities, skills and character traits. Don't lie to yourselves, we've all done it. I'll be the first to admit my guilt. We made The List. That ominous list of standards that we make for our "suitor" that we all know he will never be able to live up to. i even put mine here for all of you to read! 

Hillary's List of requirements for a suitable mate:

Be male

Be a straight male

be able to be independent

He must like Children and want to have children in the future

He must like animals, and must be able to love my annoying cat as much as i do. 

be willing to go to church with me every so often

He must have a job, or at least be in school

Must have a drivers license 

Like sports including (but not limited to) baseball, hockey, soccer and tennis

Like to sing, or at least have some kind of taste in music

       added points if he can play an instrument! 

must be able to (and like to) swim

must like camping

Be ok with my dislike for bacon

also be ok with my dislike of facial hair

Prefer house parties over going clubbing

like science

     bonus points for other nerdery as well!! 

Starwars > Startrek (even if Chris Pine is captain Kirk and not Anniken Skywalker)

must have a n affinity to cereal (shreddies all the way)

Must love the breakfast club!

See what i mean? 100% ridiculous. The only person who could possibly live up to these ridiculous standards is myself! 

But lets not forget the "physical list"

must be more that 6' 1"

Blonde wavy hair

baby blue eyes 

white straight teeth

muscles muscles muscles

wash board abs

       Essentially the statue of david with Brian Little's head on it.

(this bit is not my list by the way, to me physical appearance is directly affected by personality and attitude. For example: somebody could have crossed eyes and a crooked smile, and be the most wonderful person out there and still be exponentially more beautiful to me than somebody who looks like a greek god and has no manners.) 

Its no wonder i've been single for so long!  

That being said, this does not mean that i am about to change my standards because i want a boyfriend. I'm not actually changing anything at all. I dont have to. And nobody should. Don't ever settle for somebody, just because theyre good enough. Life doesnt work that way. I know i hear alot from friends and even family that with my attitude i am going to be single forever, (i've been single for so long my family thinks im a lesbian! <--- i love to play it up!) and maybe i will be. Maybe i will be a spinster with 5 cats 5 years from now. The fact of the matter is, Im not looking for love, and really i dont want to, nor do i think its right to do so. Love will happen when it happens. and if it doesnt, well then i guess it just wasnt supposed to happen. And that, ladies and gents, is called faith. 

Here's the blatant truth. No man will ever fit into our standards. Just like you are your own person they are their own person. Our standards are way too high, and in the long run not only are we beating up and insulting men, but we're beating ourselves up, and running our self esteem into the ground as well. 

I am happy just the way i am.  I found the perfect guy, who actually does meet 97% of of this list. He really is wonderful, but we're not together. Hes one of my best friends, and i wouldnt change that for the world. He is patient and kind and selfless (to a fault). Perhaps one day, if things are supposed to happen they will, but for right now we talked it over and are going to be "single with each other" for a while. 

So here is what i propose:

Be yourself. be happy. know that when it happens, you'll know. And know that our men are people too, so lets not build them up to be something that we know only exists in the new Calvin Klyne fragrance commercial. Let the imperfections be perfections, love wholly, and always be true to yourself.

-H

just a little rant

Right well i have been off to a terrible start with the whole 1 post a day. Sorry i bit off a whole lot more than i could chew, i had one of those moments when i forgot that i am a grown up. Today on my way home from school i had the radio on in my car when the song "Same Love" by macklemore came on. Now i've always hated this song, it has terrible melody, and awful beat so i suppose the only thing it has going for it would be the lyrics. so i took a real good listen this time and i hate it even more now than i did before. First of all i should just preface this by saying that i am a very open person, i love all people: men, women, children, seniors. I have had, and still do have friends of every sexual orientation (because i know that theres going to be a whole bunch of "HOMOPHOBE" screaming and finger pointing.) and they are some of the most wonderful people i have ever met. In our house i was raised and taught that EVERYBODY is an equal, be it young or old, male or female, gay or straight. And guess what else? I was raised in a right wing conservative, christian home. So when i hear the lyric's in a song like "same love" that take a poke at other's religion, or political stance it really friggen' irks me. In order for for us to all be seen as equals, and for opinions of the "right wing conservatives" opinions to change, perhaps we ought to stop throwing low blows at each other. So here is my analysis and thoughts of the song: Same Love by Macklemore


When I was in the third grade I thought that I was gay,
First of all, what the fuck were you doing in the third grade that made you think that you were gay?!?! When i was in the third grade i was still busy playing barbies and watching digimon, boys still had cooties, and girls were the fucking bomb! It in no way surprises me that "you though that you were gay" in the third grade, the opposite sex was gross to everybody in the third grade.

'Cause I could draw, my uncle was, and I kept my room straight.
I couldn't draw worth shit, and i still can't, my best friend is a lesbian and my room has always been a disaster zone, does that make me a lesbian? no it just makes me a shitty drawer, and a slob, and you a master artist neat nick with an uncle who just happens to be homo sexual. seriously these lyrics make no sense.

I told my mom, tears rushing down my face
She's like "Ben you've loved girls since before pre-k, trippin' "
my mom told me that too, but then i said uhmm no ew. so you're still way out in left field her buddy


Yeah, I guess she had a point, didn't she?
Bunch of stereotypes all in my head.
speaking of stereo types, I'm pretty sure this may just be one great big one.

I remember doing the math like, "Yeah, I'm good at little league"
I was too, i was too

A preconceived idea of what it all meant
For those that liked the same sex
Had the characteristics
Is there really something so wrong with just being yourself? whether you're gay or straight, tall or short, can't you just be the best you instead of trying to please everybody else?

The right wing conservatives think it's a decision
this family does not think that, in fact i know a whole bunch that don't think that, but ignorance sure is bliss isn't it.


And you can be cured with some treatment and religion
Man-made rewiring of a predisposition
i don't even have a comment for this bit

Playing God, aw nah here we go
America the brave still fears what we don't know
and i do not even know what this even means.

And God loves all his children, is somehow forgotten
no this is also not forgotten. Not in my house!

But we paraphrase a book written thirty-five-hundred years ago
I don't know
Thats a good way to win over those "right wing conservatives" (i believe you mean right wing christians by the way) by insulting the holiest part of a lot of  their lives.


And I can't change
Even if I tried
Even if I wanted to
And I can't change
Even if I tried
Even if I wanted to
and you shouldn't

My love
She keeps me warm
i thought we were fighting for marriage equality here, why all of the sudden the hetero-sexual "choice"

If I was gay, I would think hip-hop hates me
i dont think hip hop hates you because your gay, i think hip hop hates you because this is a terrible hip hop song. if it can even be classified as hip hop that is.

Have you read the YouTube comments lately?
Yes actually and some of them are hilarious!

"what version of potato was this recorded with" <--- classic! 

"Man, that's gay" gets dropped on the daily
it does, and it needs to stop

We become so numb to what we're saying

A culture founded from oppression
and this is the exact problem with our generation right now, everybody feels oppressed. let me let you in on a little secret: its not oppression its called: life is fucking hard, get over yourself. you think your job sucks? get a better one. Not educated enough? Go back to school and get yourself educated, and damn rights expect it to be expensive as all hell, you're the one complaining your job sucks and you're want to fix it (FYI post secondary education is a privilege, NOT a right, just like a drivers licence).  Can't afford that new smart Phone? that must be terrible for you, everybody seemed to get on just fine without one in the 80's. Hell even the 90's and early 2000's. I am so over everybody else's whiny ass life that i'm stuck in.


Yet we don't have acceptance for 'em

Call each other faggots behind the keys of a message board
A word rooted in hate, yet our genre still ignores it
Gay is synonymous with the lesser
It's the same hate that's caused wars from religion
Gender to skin color, the complexion of your pigment
The same fight that led people to walk outs and sit ins
this is possibly the only lyric that makes sense in this entire shit show of a song

It's human rights for everybody, there is no difference!
Live on and be yourself
Amen.

When I was at church they taught me something else
If you preach hate at the service those words aren't anointed
im really curious what fucking church you went to as a child, remind me to never go there. ever.

That holy water that you soak in has been poisoned
When everyone else is more comfortable remaining voiceless
Rather than fighting for humans that have had their rights stolen
i am too tire to keep writing about this even, i can feel my blood pressure sky rocketing.

I might not be the same, but that's not important
No freedom till we're equal, damn right I support it
you know what i support it too, but this song seems more about hate than anything else, above all equality. if you expect equality you better damn well return it.

(I don't know)
wasn't that clear before the song even started

And I can't change
Even if I tried
Even if I wanted to
My love
She keeps me warm


We press play, don't press pause
Progress, march on
With the veil over our eyes
We turn our back on the cause
Till the day that my uncles can be united by law
When kids are walking 'round the hallway plagued by pain in their heart
A world so hateful some would rather die than be who they are
And a certificate on paper isn't gonna solve it all
But it's a damn good place to start
No law is gonna change us
We have to change us
Whatever God you believe in
We come from the same one
Strip away the fear
Underneath it's all the same love
About time that we raised up... sex

And I can't change
Even if I tried
Even if I wanted to
And I can't change
Even if I tried
Even if I wanted to
My love
She keeps me warm

Love is patient
Love is kind
Love is patient
Love is kind
(not crying on Sundays)
Love is patient
(not crying on Sundays)

Ok i can not write any more about this. its late, and i want to calm down before i go to bed. I am actually legitimately upset you guys. I stand for equality of all people of every gender, race, ethnicity, religion, and hair colour, but for crap's sake, if you're fighting for equality this is not the way to do it.

Oh and Mr. Macklemore, coming from one of your "right wing conservatives", excuse me, but could you please stop putting words in my fucking mouth? that would be much appreciated, because you dont even know the half of it.

(sorry about all of the profanities and sarcasm readers, im just really cheesed.)

-H

Lets switch things up a little!!

Hi and hello, Happy friday! so i know its been forever since i last posted to this here blog (and i also am starting to feel as if i start every post this way), but i promise i have a good reason! Since my last post i have had family emergencies and a death in the family. After a very short battle with pancreatic cancer my grand father passed away on may 5, 2013. I've been at school, i recently did an additional semester at high school just o update or retake some of the courses that i took before graduation. And then, after school i was away for almost two months working, where i had no internet access, other than what my iPhone can stand! I also like to try to make an effort to be on my computer as little as possible during the summer, theres just so much better stuff to do with my time rather than looking at a light box. More recently i have gotten a new job doing intake and front desk reception at a local clinic. Its great!!

Anywhooser, in the 7 weeks that i was up north working, i managed to read through three novels (and even a half of one that i had to borrow from my grandmother!!) I read the first three instalments of the Watersong series written by Amanda Hawking. Oh- emm- gee! they were excellent. i could not put them down!! Today im not going to do any summarizing or anything, but i will say that they were excellent and you should go out and read them!! also fun fact: i did not even realize that i had gotten a signed copy of Lullaby (the second in the series) until i was about half way through the book! How awesome is that?! I simply can not wait for the next and perhaps final instalment of the series entitled "Elegy". Seriously go out and read these, theyre awesome *****/*****

Next things next! i have a whole bunch of books planned for the upcoming months! I am reading through the "Percy Jackson series" first. I know it may seem juvenile but i have the movies and theyre excellent, and theyre one of those series that was around when i was a child, but i never actually had the opportunity to read them, so im going to read them now! Put that in your juice box and suck it! Also i just really love Logan Lerman.... So first is percy Jackson, then i will be refreshing my "blue bloods" memory so that i can read the fresh new last novel called "lost in time" by Melissa De La Cruz. So pumped!! And after that who knows. I have a wack load of nicholas sparks novels to read, and i even want to read HP and the order of the phoenix, and the half blood prince again as well. But i need to also remember not to get carried away as i am also working/ still in school part time.

However, as i am only at work/ school in the evenings i have decided to spice this blog up a bit, with DAILY POSTS!!! Thats right get ready for your daily dose of Hillary because starting Monday we will have:

Blog day monday- in which i will post a new blog talking about whatever i bloody well want to talk about that day

Photo tuesday- where i will post my favourite photo of the week!!

Top 10 Wednesday- here i will creating a list of to 10 somethings, or even just 10 things that i like that week!

DEAR Thursday- thats right Drop Everything And Read, and here will be responses on what i am currently reading

and last but not least.....

Video Friday!! For video friday, i will be poasting my favourite youtube video/ movie of the week. And sometimes i may just even feature my favourite youtube-ER!!

I am so excited. I even have an interview lined up with my dad, who has recently been reading the Jack Reacher novels!! I can not wait to get things started with this "new" blog!!

Until Monday,

Happy page turning.

-Hillary

TFIOS, my sister's keeper and the Watersong series

My god, it has been FOREVER since i have written a post. I was going to today, but because it was going to be way to long, i decided to make another video post. These seem to be working for me. Expect more in the future (especially since i also just became a youtube Partner!!) I look forward to sharing more time together in the future!

Happy reading,

-Hillary-Erin

This is a public service announcement.

Hey Readers, so today was a super busy day for me, and as i always like to post on thursdays if i can, it needed to be done today. That, being said, i just did not have time to sit down and write so i sat down in front of my puter and talked. And then i uploaded. that was it. Hopefully you like this, i sure did! and i am actually looking forward to doing another one, just because i enjoyed my time so much. Anyways please enjoy this half assed non- edited video.

-Hillary-Erin

My thoughts on Safe Haven by Nicholas Sparks

Wshew!! i can not believe that i am finally getting this post done! life has been so hectic and chaotic recently that i just havnt had the time. honestly i finished the book on easter weekend, so im going to write what i can and just hope that everything is all still fresh in my mind!

SPOILER ALERT! harry potter is a wizard. Do not continue reading if you wish to read the novel Safe Haven and/or watch the movie!!

The Novel:
So katie, or should i call her Erin?? stumbles upon this small town, South Port, on her run from her psychotic husband. There she buys a shitty old cabin, and while fixing it up meets Alex (the guy in the store that sells her paint), and his children Josh and Kristen, as well as her next door neighbour Jo. To know more about the characters please read my character analysis in my previous post. Long story short the beginning was kind of slow, but sweet, but the secong half! oh. my. goodness!!! i could not put it down!! So her drunk of a husband drives all the way to southport from boston (talk about dangerous) during the independence day weekend! Seriously he consumed more than 4 bottles of vodka in a 36 hour time period! His liver must be well pickled at this point! anyways he shows up drunk as a skunk, tracks down katie,and realizes that she is with Alex. So naturally the only sane thing to do is destroy all of them right?? According to him it is!! so he pours gasoline and even more vodka all over Alex's Store (In which his house is on top of the store, where katie and the kids are currently sleeping!) and sets it on fire!!! Katie manages to get the children out and the run to her cabin in the woods, but Kevin follows!! Alex arrives (after picking somebody up from the airport) realizing that his home is on fire, and rushes to Katie's Cabin. Hammered Kevin hits Alex over the head with a crowbar leaving him to bleed to death and hold Katie and the children at gun point. Just before Kevin shoots Josh, Katie jumps in front of Kevin and tries to wrestle the gun out of his hands and Kevin ends up shooting himself in the face. In the end Alex is just fine,a getting a few stitches, and a bad concussion, the kids are traumatized, but Alex and Katie stay together and everybody is happy happy happy.
Oh yeah, and Jo? Turns out shes the ghost of Alex's late wife. weird right?! i know!!

Rating: 4 Channing Tatums out of 5.

4/                                     5

The Movie:

same plot line, although parts were different (Such as crazy Kevin printing out most wanted fliers with Katie on them accusing her of Murder 1, which actually seems legit, because hes not introduced as Kevin until almost half way through the movie) So yeah they did a great job of keeping Crazy Kevin Crazy, and Alex wonderfully handsome, and Katie well katie. The Movie was very much so a suspenseful thriller. Very not Nicholas Sparks! Which i quite enjoyed. The one thing i really did not like was that they renamed Alex's daughter Lexi instead of keeping it as Kristen. Why? Just why? its not like it effected the plot at all in any way. it just seemed so unnecessary. That being said this movie gets a rating of:

4 Adam Levines out of 5

















Also Stay tuned, because ive started a new book as well!! Its very well known and ive had it reccomnded to me by more than 3  people!! You guessed it! Coming soon A review of The Fault In Our Stars by John Green!! (Ive already read the first chapter and its SOOOOO GOOD!!)

A sigh of relief, and a character analysis!

"Im so upset i could blog about it!" 

My thoughts for today. Not only was i looking forward to reading my book, i also needed it for an assignment in class today, when i couldn't find it ANYWHERE!! I checked every room that i have been in the past 3 days and searched my brains out! I was actually starting to get worried that i dropped it in the middle of the halls or that somebody had lifted it off of me. However to think that somebody would steal a book of all things from somebody at the sturg was a long shot. Perhaps if i was looking for "my" pack of cigarettes that would be a completely different story! I did find my book though and had that wonderful sigh of relief! I had forgotten that i spent a night looking after my god daughter, and had left it in my over night bag from friday. Seriously thats how long its been since I've read! its actually really concerning. I had planned on doing the review for this one a week ago, but things have just been so hectic that i just haven't had the time to read my book. That being said I'm just over halfway through so it shouldn't be too terribly long until i can do this review. Until then i figured i would do a quick overview as to what i have already read! 

just a disclaimer (that i suppose i really should have added in her in my last post) Because this blog is about reading and will contain reviews on different books and Movies there will be SPOILERS ALL OVER THIS PAGE! if you're planning on reading the book or watching the movie at some point in your life then perhaps i would hold off on reading just yet. 

Ok now that, that tedious little bit is out of the way lets jump in with a little character introduction:

Alex- the male protagonist in our story here, is an older man "salt & pepper hair". He owns and manages the general store in their end of southport, and has two children. His late wife Carly, and mother of the two children passed away because of a brain tumour, and now Alex has been forced to be more responsible than ever looking after Josh (6) and Kirsten (5) A former detective with the marines, he is very good at reading into the actions and behaviours of many of the other characters, and uses this skill when he meets Katie. Alex is a very genuine person and its easy to see why katie feels so safe and comfortable around him.

Katie- Our female protagonist and main character in the story. Katie is very complex and is quite hard to write about, because she really is two different characters. Katie is the strong, green eyed brunette, woman who was able to escape from her violent husband in Boston. Although Katie is still very apprehensive about Alex and living in south port, she is and independent woman now and is trying to teach herself that it is ok to be happy, and that it is ok to have nice things in life that you can enjoy. Erin is the other side of "Katie" that we see when she is with her husband Kevin. Erin is extremely submissive,  timid and to a certain extent mousy. She grew up with her parents alcoholism and is now living with her husband who also has sever alcoholism and is a violent and abusive man. 

Kevin- Our antagonist and honestly the most well written character in the novel in my opinion. I should probably just say that i dont feel like hes well written because i agree with his actions or dialogue for that matter but rather i disagree with every single passage he is written into. He just comes off as exactly what he is. A ruthless, violent, drunk, corrupt, cop. I cant help but feel so strongly for this character, but not in the good way. I actually have nothing good to say about him. The nicest thing i could come up with is that he is a complete and total scum bag. So far we know that he would do anything to control Erin, including locking her in the house, stopping by and calling at random to make sure that she has not gone out, which would be impossible considering he would not let her have a drivers license. We know he beats her black and blue if she cuts the tomatoes for the salad incorrectly, holds her at gunpoint when she stands up for herself and lets not forget the countless number of times he has raped her. This guy is that fucking ass thats really not worth anybody's time and oh yeah! he's a high ranking captain with the Boston PD. And is currently trying to track katie down to kill her. what a hero.

Jo- Is Katie's neighbour and a counsellor. occasionally she walks over and they share a glass of wine and Katie tells her story's about her life with Kevin. Really her character is a filler, but i can't help relating with her, just because our personalities are so similar. I feel like she really is the most interesting character in the book! 

Thats the four main characters in the novel, i think im done now. my head is starting to hurt, (i had two tests today and i think its getting the best of me) however i am SO HAPPY that i found my book!! 

stay tuned for the rest of the review!!! 

-Hillary-Erin 

"Im so excited, i think i'll blog about it!"

Just a Small Announcement:

So i know i have not written in quite sometime and i apologize for that. The truth of the matter is that i started this blog as a way for me to pass the time in my dorm room throughout my first year of University. It Started out as a great idea but as things got more and more busy i had less and less time to actually sit down and write something, and i had started lose inspiration and things to write about. So here is my Announcement: This blog has now been reborn and has taken a turn in the totally opposite direction. Don't get me wrong i still have Burtram my Beta fish and he is doing awesome, but i have recently been very inspired to try this new idea i have had for quite sometime. 

So i Suppose i should start off with  aNew introduction to myself, as i have changed significantly since my last post. First of all i've grown yet another year older and now being 20 a lot of things have changed. My Name is still Hillary, I'm still Canadian (but no i do not say oot and aboot or Eh.), i am still a sister and ' still a music lover! What has changed is my field of studies. To this day i don't think i've really been honest about why i stopped studying music and moved into healthcare, the reason being I'm not totally sure i know myself why. Being a nurse just seemed right. As much as i loved singing and doing my music, i never really felt like that was my dream. I can still remember when my parents would always ask me what i wanted to be when i grew up i would always answer with "a Nurse." Its always been my dream, and i can't even begin to describe how happy i am doing what i do. 

So because of the 3+ years to actually get into a nursing program, i decided to get my healthcare aide diploma first. that way i could get myself into the workplace, get some experience, and if i hated it i would have spent far less time and money on it. Now i've graduated, i am fully certified, but jobless. There are just no jobs out there to be had, so i made the decision to go back to high school. To keep my skills up to date, and also because a lot of the curriculum has changed since my graduation in 2011, and majority of those courses are required to get into a nursing program. Currently i am taking a grade 12 Biology, math and English. Now, i have previously had both my Bio and Math teachers in my grade 12 year, but i had never met my current english teacher (Even after hearing of her for four consecutive years) I had heard many things about her, both good and bad. Rumour had it that she was one of those teacher that you absolutely loved or hated. 

She is so different from any other english teacher i've had. EVER. Taking higher level english the emphasis was always on how to write an essay, and the novel studies were always on some dry ancient "Classic" like Wuthering Heights. God, even the title makes me cringe. Mrs Smith (not her real name), however puts a lot of emphasis on reading. I have written only one assignment so far and all of our novel studies are on the books we pick out ourselves! For example every friday we get all class to just read a novel and when we return on monday we spend the class writing and responding to what we read. The first assignment we were required to do was not the usual "write a paragraph about yourself" assignment, but rather tell me your three favourite books and why and why you like to read. I Hillary-Erin for the first time EVER, L O V E my english class! 

Mrs. Smith has this philosophy that life is too short to read a shitty book so why waste time doing so? so that is exactly what i am not going to do! She has gotten me BACK into my love for reading, and man am i so thankful for that! I almost thought i was starting to lose myself for a bit. 

Anyways enough of my ramblings, This new blog: Dog-eared Corners is going to be devoted to my current reading. And will feature a book review every time i finish a novel (I want to say once a month, but some books are longer than others), as well as a review of the corresponding movies if one exits. I hope nobody is expecting any Jane Austen, or any of the Bronte sisters on here because it just is not going to happen. i have absolutely no interest in reading that nonsense. So i will be reading relatable new"er" aged works. Starting with Nicholas Sparks' Safe Haven. 

I know right: oh god why? well although i find a lot of his works very predictable and cookie cutter (i.e. the rescue, Dear John) a lot of them are beautiful and keep you on your toes at all times (ex. The Lucky One). And i also have this weird thing on my bucket list to own and read every sparks novel. (Im almost halfway there, YAY!) 

ok this is officially way to long! Until next time:

-Hillary-Erin

stay tuned page turners

COMING SOON: 

Safe Haven by Nicholas Sparks

a review by Hillary.