Finals?...... Psh

who needs to work on homework or study for tests or write papers when there is blogging to be done!? i have some time before interviews tonight so i thought i'd be cool and catch up on my blog and brought my camera with me to campus but promptly forgot the cord to transfer the pictures. idiot! but i have some catching up to do on other stuff so i'll get to that:

i've been doing a bit of reading the past couple months and these are some i've finished along the way:

A Thousand Splendid Suns - it was an interesting read but i wasnt terribly impressed with it. it talked a lot about the supression of women in the middle east and was more depressing than anything i'd say. altho i'm sure its a somewhat accurate portrayal of life for women over there, i dont think i want to read a fictional version of stuff like that. i prefer the real thing when it comes to history. but like i said, it was informative and interesting, but it took a long time to get going and tie everything together

The Great Apostacy - i enjoyed this book a lot, even tho its written by talmage who can be very hard to understand. its written in a much simpler manner and the format makes it easy to read. it goes thru all the stuff that led up to and incorporated the apostacy, mostly from a worldly perspective, which was interesting. he includes a lot of details most members of the church wouldnt otherwise know unless they studied it in-depth on their own. very informative and i would recommend it to any student of the gospel

Standing for Something - this is one of those books that every person in the world should read. i think if people would live the principles discussed in it then the world would be such a better place. we all know pres. hinckley had a great way of getting his point across without being condenscending about it, and he writes the same way. the values he emphasizes are simple yet effective. any person would be the better by implementing these virtues in their lives. a must read for anyone seeking to better themselves