Coraline by Neil Gaiman

My review

rating: 3 of 5 stars
This was a very easy book to read. The book is about a little girl named Coraline who lives with her parents in a flat in England. She is a very curious little girl and her curiousity gets her into some trouble. She finds a door that just opens up to a brick wall. But one day it doesn't and she fnds herself in an alternate reality of her real life. She has a mother and a father, same neighbors, but everything is a little darker and scarier. Toys come to life and paintings of fruit some how get eaten with just a rotting apple core left. The starangest part for Coraline, is that her parents have shiny, black buttons as their eye's.



This book reminded me of a mix of Alice Throught the Looking Glass and Beetlejuice. However, it is very tame and a good book for a child reading on a 7-12 year old level.


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Behind Every Good Man: Helping Your Husband Take the Spiritual Lead in the Home by John Bytheway

My review

rating: 5 of 5 stars
If I could give this more than 5 stars, I would. I thoroughly enjoyed this book. I have to admit that I have never read any books by John Bytheway, but have listened to his talks. I thought this was wonderfulo book on becoming better wives and helping our husband's become better as well. He points out in this book that women in general in the LDS church ar distressed that more men are not taking the spiritual lead in their homes. Some of it is because we as women take the lead first without allowing our husband's to do so or do not involve him in alot of the daily decision makings. He gives alot of good pointers such as they was we talk, show our love and appreciation, the positive feedback we give, and they way we talk about our husband's when he is not around. This book is so short and only 126 pages and so easy. But what I loved the most was that it was the most simple advice ever because, as John Bytheway puts it, men are simple.


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