30 Day Blog Challenge: Day 4

Your views on religion.


Well... This is always a very touchy subject among people. Many people are strongly rooted into the religion that their family believes in.. You know what I mean, right? Usually you attend the same church as your parents, grandparents, aunts, and uncles. Unfortanetly this is not the case for me. My aunts, uncles, and all my family aside from my parents and my sibling attend Methodist churches, and obviously follow the Methodist beliefs. I on the otherhand, go to and believe in Catholica relgion. My father was raised a Catholic and my mother was raised Methodist but changed to Catholic in order to be wed in the Catholic church when they got married. It's a touchy subject around holidays such as easter... We as Catholics don't eat meat every Friday from Ash Wednesday to Easster Sunday but the rest of my family does... Other times we just start talking about religion for some reason or another and always bump head, both sides are so quick to judge. Eventually we overcame the little arguments that we use to have here and there by learning to respect eachother's choices of religion. I personally don't care what you believe in because it is ultimalely your own choice, I attend both Methodist and Catholic churches although, I am only baptised & confirmed in the Catholic church. I honestly don't like this subject and therefore am ending this blog with this quote....


"I never will, by any word or act, bow to the shrine of intolerance or admit a right of inquiry into the religious opinions of others." ~Thomas Jefferson

30 Day Blog Challenge: Day 2

Where you'd like to be in ten years?


This is the million dollar question.. I honestly have no idea where I want to be. Ten years from now I will be 30. I would HOPE to be a Registered Nurse (which I am in school for currently), married, with maybe a child or two. If I am single, with no children.. well that's perfectly fine with me. I'm not one of those people who spends a lot of time dwelling on a plan and trying to stick to it. I like to say that I am a open minded, open spirited, free person.. I attempt to let things "go with the flow" although it is difficult to do sometimes. Also, ten years from now I would love to have traveled out of the US, this is one thing that I determined to accomplish, whether I have to wash dishes at a Mexican restaurant to save the money or not. I AM GOING TO ENGLAND. SPAIN. FRANCE.. That's all for now, I didn't enjoy this topic. :(

XOXO, Amanda

Partials by Dan Wells

Synopsis: The human race is all but extinct after a war with Partials--engineered organic beings identical to humans--has decimated the population. Reduced to only tens of thousands by RM, a weaponized virus to which only a fraction of humanity is immune, the survivors in North America have huddled together on Long Island while the Partials have mysteriously retreated. The threat of the Partials is still imminent, but, worse, no baby has been born immune to RM in more than a decade. Our time is running out.

Kira, a sixteen-year-old medic-in-training, is on the front lines of this battle, seeing RM ravage the community while mandatory pregnancy laws have pushed what's left of humanity to the brink of civil war, and she's not content to stand by and watch. But as she makes a desperate decision to save the last of her race, she will find that the survival of humans and Partials alike rests in her attempts to uncover the connections between them--connections that humanity has forgotten, or perhaps never even knew were there.


My opinion: Hmm.. I don't know how many people think like I do but I was not the biggest fan of YA dystopian novels. They were popping up everywhere as if no one had any orginal ideas. Therefore, I was hesitant to read this because I thought it was going to be the same thing that I have read before. IT'S NOT. This is not a love triangle, sweet, romance type of dystopian novel which I love! It's a medical mystery that in order to cure will unravel many deep secrets humans did not want seeing the light of day. Conspiracies, cover ups, and sabotages basically sums up what you will read in the book.



On a side note: There is minimal romance in this book, but I am rooting for Team Kira & Samm (with two M's)