The Mortal Instruments and Life

This is totally not like me to write about something other then my children. My siblings will be shocked.

So I have been reading this series called The Mortal Instruments. It has three books in it. City of Bones, City of Ashes and City of Glass. I have been putting it off for months to read these books and I am glad I did because now I don't have to wait for a sequel since they are all out. The first one kept my on the edge of my seat because of the love that was growing between the two people in this book and then to find out that it was wrong for them to have those feelings. Now I am trying not to give anything away but in the end, everything works out. Happy love endings are the best. My siblings like to say that I read smutty novels but no I do not. Yes I read books with romance in them but a lot of them are LDS or they have romance in them but if they start to get too graphically detailed, or offending in any way I usually put it down. Now just to set the record straight I do read other books other then romance. I like mystery, some fantasy and other types of books. I was thinking it isn't necessarily the romance,( all the kissing and stuff like that. Of course if it has more then just kissing in it then I usually put it down.) that I like about the type of books I read, it is the courtship that I like. The glances, the talking to get to know one another, the stolen kisses, all the things that lead up to a happy couple together. It always takes me back to when Dan and I started dating. We had such a great courtship. Our first date, which it wasn't suppose to be a date, it was to practice for our dance test, but Dan turned it into a date. Anyway our first date was a very deep first date. I have never opened up to a guy or anyone for that matter as quickly as I did to Dan, which is probably why I knew we were going to be together forever.

When books have people who connect to one another so perfectly it sucks me into their world cheering for them on the side lines. Wanting them to have what I have. I know silly but true. I am a very strange person.

As the books go from one book to the next I kept hoping that things would work out in the end. It almost gave me panic attacks to see them not be able to be together. I was thinking, "this can't be happening," Yes I am crazy and very weird but I zoomed through those books like a madman. I had to know how it was going to end. So this one weekend I spent reading I got nothing done. Sad but true. If I had, had to wait for the third book to come out I think I would have gone crazy. I actually reread them to realized that I did really like the books. At first I didn't know what to think about them. It reminded me of Twilight and Harry Potter mixed together. I kept thing, "Gee lady get your own ideas" but as I reread them I thought yes it has similar ideas as those other books but that it also had some its own creativity in it. Now I don't want to start a war or hated feels about books. I am not a hater or I try not to be. I don't like to argue and everyone is entitled to their own thoughts. I am just sharing feels I had on the books because it has been on my mind a lot and so venting hopefully will clean out my head.

They were good books. They ended well. Don't most books end that way I can see why she picked some of the ideas from other books because they sold well and people loved those other books. She did a great job not making it all about sex like the forth book was in the Twilight book. I guess the only reason I was disappointed with Stephenie Meyers fourth book is it was way too perfect, there was way too much about sex, and I expected more from someone who has an LDS background. I have come to learn that being LDS in Utah is different then being LDS somewhere else. I almost went into shock when I came here six years ago and saw how on the borderline some of the young women and young men in our church acted and how slack they were with their standards. I mostly mean the ones I saw in college.

I grew up in a very small town were all my friends weren't LDS because the only LDS girls were my sisters and a few other families that didn't go to my school. I knew everyone in my ward because there weren't many of us. Now I live in a ward that is great but I go to church and still don't know half of the people in my ward. But because we lived in such a small branch we had to live our standard that we believed in because we were the minority and we had to show our town that we lived what we preached. I wasn't perfect as a teenager and heck I am defiantly not perfect now but it was easier to live gospel then because we didn't have stores near by to hang out at, or places to spend our money on worldly things. We had our families and that was all we needed. Which is probably were I got my love of reading from because there wasn't much else to do. But I loved living in a small town because it wasn't noisy, crowded, and not full of all the worldly temptations. This book made me do a lot of thinking which lead me to all these thoughts that I have had recently. I don't mean to offend anyone, they are just thoughts and I tend to ramble and say things. I do love the area we live in now. I love my neighbors and I love my ward. I have an awesome ward. I just miss the simple things. I hope you enjoy my thoughts.