The Secret by Rhonda Byrne

So I am not officially finished with this book, but I have to say that I am excited and super impressed by the good feelings I got when I read it. I was so excited to change my "thoughts" and direct my feelings to good. I feel like I have so many questions for the "Secret Team" about the whole concept of it, but overall, I totally believe in the law of attraction. I used to think it was karma, what goes around comes around. I have put it into practice since I started reading it and have nothing but positive results. I want to have a good attitude and stop thinking about what I don't have or dont' want. I am blessed with so much and am thankful that I can use my mind for powerful things, like shifting my feelings. And what is the harm in thinking positive? I have been happier and my outlook in life is nothing but joyful. I think being LDS and having the Gospel has also helped me with this, but The Secret has just brought it out in a different way and reminded me that I have the power within me to be whatever I want. I'm excited to finish up and I'm sure I'll have more to say when I'm done.

Breaking Dawn by Stephanie Meyer

BEWARE OF READING unless you have finished this book. I give away too much! Sorry!!!

I just finished the much-awaited book of the Twilight Series. Whew! It's nice to have my life back... When I first started reading, I cried and cried as I felt Jacob's heart break as Bella gets married and suffers through so much pain as she carries the half-breed baby. Yet he sticks around through all of it with a flicker of hope, but knowing full well his heart is going to break again when she becomes immortal or dies because of the "fetus". I was very mad at Bella for making Edwars suffer so much and for everyone around her suffering because she was in so much pain. I didn't understand why she'd let the fetus break her! I mean, I understand the love of a mother and child, but I couldn't see this as a child...yet! Then it just turned nasty as Bella had to drink blood to survive. Eeeeeewww! I really thought Bella was going to die. (Sidenote: I loved how Jacob narrated the 2nd book. He has a great sense of humor and I just love how he is so real and still immature!) Then everything changed when Bella became a vampire and wasn't the typical "newborn". I liked how she was so hard core and tough and graceful and strong and so un-Bella like. It went from this happy make-believe world to this hard reality of the Volturi coming to destroy everything they had. I really thought the Voltori were going to come and kill everyone. Only because of Alice and what seemed like doom. I knew that she couldn't just leave, though. I cried when Bella prepared to say goodbye to Renesmee. And I really thought that Jacob and Renesmee would be the only ones left. I'm so glad it had a happy ending, but it isn't so final that Stephanie couldn't come up with a 5th book...although where on earth could it go that it hasn't already been??? She got her cake and ate it too!! She got to have Charlie in her life and have her baby and Jacob and of course forever with Edward. Unbelievable! Loved it!