Bucket List

• Twisted by Laurie Anderson
  
  Going through high school just like Tyler in Twisted, marks the typical life of a weirdo until he pulls the stunt of the year that not only changes the way people see him but, also how in effects his family, his best friend, and the girl of his dreams. Where every guy has that one girl who never looks his way, same for every girl that has that one guy that never looks her way until she does something dramatic. I loved the way that this is not only talking of the hectic life of high school, peer pressure and everything that you think you're supposed to do in high school. I'm not the most popular person just like Tyler, but I learn to enjoy life as it is just as he does with his many obstacles.

• Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L James
  
  I love a good love story that has a twist just like Fifty Shades of Grey when Anastasia Steele, a literature student, fills in for a sick friend to go interview a young entrepreneur that she's never heard of before, Christian Grey, she quickly realizes he's a very attractive, sophisticated, and intriguing young man. Don't you just love a twist in a book! I know I do. With this being a trilogy being much more thought out and sneaky out look to it.

• Spellbound by Nora Roberts
  
  I've always been into the stories of witch craft and all the superstitions. Spellbound is not only that but also a complicated love story as well, just what I enjoy.  While world-famous photographer Calin Farrell enjoys a much-needed vacation in Ireland, he becomes bewitched by the ravishingly beautiful Bryna Torrence. In fact, so bewitched that he refuses to believe in the spell that has brought them together—and could destroy them both. Ever since I could remember I've always loved the thought of being able to do something so incredible just by the blink of an eye or the twitch of a nose.

• If I Stay by Gayle Forman
  
  There comes a point in time where we all have to make sacrifices. I makes those choices on a daily basis. In If I Stay are choices a seventeen-year-old Mia has to make to stay true to her first love-music- even if that means losing her boyfriend and leaving friends and family behind. Reading the first page of the novel I could feel her confusion and hopelessness Mia was encountering. I know  all about the confusing situations and making choices that's going to effect everyone and everything around you. I love to read a book that I can relate to and some how or another it helps me make decisions that I know are better.

• The Shack by W. Paul Young, Wayne Jacobsen, and Brad Cummings
  
  I always see all these children being kidnapped on the news and how God can always help them. Well, in The Shack Missy, has been abducted during a family vacation, and evidence that she may have been brutally murdered is found in an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness. Four years later, in this midst of his great sadness, Mack, Missy's dad,  receives a suspicious note, apparently from God, inviting him back to that shack for a weekend. Knowingly this must be a tragic thing to happen to a family. I always turn to God and look for signs to help get me through the day. I love to read books on how people juxtapose God's words from the Bible to reality.

• The White Forrest by Adam McOmber
  
  I always had a weird sense of taste for books, movies, and just anything that interests me. The White Forrest intrigued me from the start of just having a lady dressed from the 1800's. I love reading things from that particular time era to see how they thought and acted. In this hauntingly original debut novel about a young woman whose peculiar abilities help her infiltrate a mysterious secret society, which uses fantastical twists and dark turns to create a fast-paced, unforgettable story. That involves falling in love with her childhood best friend, Nathan then he disappears. To have a new novel setting to the 1800's and a love story all in one with a twist a supernatural to it makes this one of the books I look forward to.

• Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult
  
  From the first two to three pages I read of the book already showed that this family had a very stressful life just to live in a small town. I've never read a Jodi Picoult book before and so far Nineteen Minutes seems unique and heartfelt. With Sterling, New Hampshire being the setting a  town where nothing ever happens. Not, until the day its complacency is shattered by an act of violence. Josie Cormier, the daughter of the judge sitting on the case, should be the state's best witness, but she can't remember what happened before her very own eyes. Seeing as Batesville's a small town where everyone knows every one's business, I can imagine Sterling being the same way. When something tremendous happens everyone knows.

• Desperation by Stephen King
  
  Stephen King is one of my all time favorite authors. He takes some small scenario and flips into a creepy, gruesome story. Desperation being the small town in Arizona where people just drive through to get to the Grand Canyon. However, there being a cop that pulls you over  for something so little. Just to take you back to the station and murdering you. Him being the only live person in the town of Desperation. Once more books that make your mind wonder and ponder some things you never thought a person would be capable of is the most amazing thing ever. Stephen King being one of the best novel writers ever for SyFy freaks out there, does an amazing job of creating scenarios to try and think if you were in that position what would you do?

• Perfectly Unique: Praising God from Head to Foot by Annie F. Downs.
  
  Now just from the title of this book I knew this had to be good. As I looked more into it I noticed that I was right. Perfectly Unique is about helping every girl across the nation become closer to our God and deal with our insecurities. Every girl has their insecurities and some more than others. Going through junior high and high school every girl wants to look like the girl from the cover of Seventeen magazine. I don't become jealous just to easily but I do have a very low self-esteem at  moments because of being made fun of all the way through middle school and up. But, having God by your side and helping you cope with things makes life ten times easier. This book will hopefully help me understand better and become closer to be a true daughter of my father in heaven.
  
  
• The Fault in Our Stars  by John Green
  
  Reading a book about one of the most incurable diseases never fails me to tear up. The Fault in Our Stars  is about a young girl named Hazel, who was diagnosed with lung cancer at the age of 13. By 14 she has been cured but has to live off of an oxygen tank. By joining and cancer support group she meets a boy who sees how beautiful she really is and helps her believe that she can live instead of setting an end date for herself. This is one of those well thought out heart touching books that everyone wants to read. I love realistic-fiction books that shows what most go through and yet we don't understand until we're in their position.