A few childhood classics that are worth your time

We just watched this over the holiday break and I forgot what great movies with great messages these movies have. They just don't make movies for children that are this good anymore.
Pollyanna:

Little Lord Fauntleroy was written by Frances Hodgson Burnett. She is also the author of my favorite book as a child, The Secret Garden. I read that book over and over. It is wonderful.
Little Lord Fauntleroy:

The Scarlet Pimpernel

It ends very soon but I finally made it to the Hale Theater in Orem to see The Scarlet Pimpernel. It was superb, just like everything they do there. I was glad I got to see it. I thought the music was wonderful. I loved everything about it.

Ode to the Library...

I was at the book fair at our school today and I was looking around at all the books and couldn't find anything that I wanted to pay for. I left empty-handed and feeling a little let down. Then I started realizing it is because I am, and will always be, a library girl.

Anyone who knows me, knows that I will only buy a book if I intend to read it again. Who wants to buy a book, read it, and then put it on your shelf forever?! What if you didn't like it? You spent so much money on it that you can't throw it away. That is why a library is so wonderful. You can get almost any book you want. And you can get as many books as you want! Then if you don't like it, you give it back. What if you liked it? Easy, you can go buy it!

I LOVE LIBRARIES!! I can't tell you how many hours I have spent looking at books at the library. I have memories of riding my bike to the Orem library in the summertime and finding books to read.

I LOVE LIBRARIES!!

Amazing Grace- the book

I just finished book #8 out of my "10 books by the end of summer" goal. This was a biography of William Wilberforce, mainly focusing on his efforts to abolish the slave trade. It wasn't nearly as interesting towards the end but I really enjoyed reading about this man. It was very inspirational. It makes me want to go watch the movie again!
Besides finding out more information about how abolishing the slave trade was brought about, it also covered a lot about how the religion of "Methodism" came about. I had no idea there had been a spiritual movement in the late 1700's that swept as far as America and contributed to the spiritual revival there. (Thus, making the way for the gospel of Jesus Christ to be restored.)

Amazing Grace

I may have already posted about this but I decided to watch it again after a friend returned it when I lent it to her. I LOVE this movie on so many levels. Please rent it and watch it. You can thank me later.

Besides having a great subject and being very inspirational (and a mostly true story) I love many of the actors in the movie, especially Ioan Gruffudd, who was also in the Horatio Hornblower series, which I also love.

Here is a link to the movie trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6Cv5P9H9qU

My Summer Reading List

As you might have seen in my other blog, here is a list of the books that have been recommended to me. These books are competing to be on my list of 10 books that I want to read during the summer. (Can't recommend them myself since I haven't read these yet!)

Hunger Games
The Westing Game
The Secret Garden (this is a re-read. This is my favorite book from childhood.)
Chasing Fireflies
When Crickets Cry
The Help
A Girl of the Limberlost
More of the #1 Ladies Detective Agency books
Ten Minutes from Normal
The Graveyard Book
The Darcy Connection
Miss Julia Speaks Her Mind: A Novel
A Month of Summer
The Sweetness at the bottom of the pie
The Book Thief