"I read about it...in a book..."

Fiction, non-fiction, fantasy, biography, true crime, and much more. There are many genres to choose from when deciding what to read. I love to read and ever since I got my Nookcolor I have more books to read than I have time for! So I've decided that ever book I read (good or bad) I would like to talk about on my blog with all of you! Please feel free to give your feedback! I want to know what you think and I love to hear from you! So here goes!

My first book is called Columbine and was written by Dave Cullen. I usually enjoy reading non-fiction or true crime books so this was right up my alley! I guess I find it more interesting knowing that things are real? I also find it kind of interesting seeing how these people act, think, feel. I guess because at one point I wanted to go into psychology. Anyway, I saw the cover of this book whlie looking online and was pretty much pulled in. It's a picture of the school (small on the bottom) and the sky...I guess all the blue and white of the sky makes it stand out. I saw the name and thought, " I already know the story of what happened what more can there be?" This book really surprised me on how good it was!

The book is about the tragedy that took place at Columbine High School on April 20, 1999. Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold walked in Columbine and started shooting everyone in their path. Teachers, students, other faculty. They didn't care who was killed or injured. They wanted this massacre to be bigger than the Oklahoma City bombings. But why did they even want to do this in the first place? What did their parents think? What were they like in the years before the shooting? This book gives every detail I feel...


Parts of this book may be a little disturbing. It was for me especially when they were giving a detailed account of what happened that day, but still interesting. It also talks about how they lived, where they worked, how they acted, etc. They seemed pretty normal looking in from the outside, but they were anything but normal. Eric seemed to be the ringleader of this disaster, but Dylan was depressed and ended up going along with whatever Eric said. Their parents saw no signs and always seems to treat both children in a loving manner.


As this book progresses, it talks about the aftermath and what has become of it till today. It gives many details of family and loved ones that were injured or killed that day. It talks about what they went through and how they felt. Some were angry, others were crushed, a lot ended up having to have therapy for PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder). I will say though that this book is not ALL sad...There are some uplitfing moments! Even though Patrick Ireland was shot, and paralyzed on one side, he managed to drag his body to a window and fall out. He was taken to the hospital and immediately to surgery. They thought he would never be able to walk, or talk correctly (make sentences, anything), but he did. He can walk, talk, make sentences, pretty much anything! It was amazing!


I would recommend this book to anyone. It was a great read and kept my attention the whole time. I hope you all enjoyed my blog on this book. Like I said  before please give your feedback so I can hopefully make it better the next time :) Thanks for reading!

Forever and Always...

When Mark and I decided to get married I never dreamed everything that a wedding would entail...I just wanted to be Mrs. Gentry! I would have never survived the wedding madness alone, luckily I had my mother to guide me through the exciting, and sometimes frustrating plans of organizing a wedding. It seems like a lot of people we know are getting married/having children and since I'm not having children anytime soon I thought I may give some helpful tips on wedding planning I learned along the way from someone I know is genius at this stuff...my mom.

We found the chair covers online and went ahead and ordered them. They weren't really a bad price but my mom had a few friends who would use them later and just rent them from her. I guess this was helpful if you know people that could just rent them from you later on or you could use them again. This way you could either get your money out of them or make your money back!

Another thing that you can see in this picture is the centerpiece. Of course this is just a rolled up piece of silk brown material, but in the middle is a circular mirror. She founds these mirrors dirt cheap around town. (I'm sure Hobby Lobby, Wal-mart, etc.) Each centerpiece only ended up costing us like $5 or $6 dollars a table.

Here is one of my favorites!! We saved at every angle possible for our wedding and it turned out beautifully and I loved my wedding dress but didn't want to fool with wearing it around all evening so I found a cute little white dress to wear. (Try not to stare at my whiteness...ha) So would you like to know where I found this cutie-pie dress?! The THRIFT STORE! I see all these women spending tons of money on this and that and a dress on top of everything (and some going as far as buying a second dress for the reception.) I don't have that kind of money nor if I did would I do something that crazy! I found this dress one day long before I decided to get married in the thrift store and luckily enough it came in handy! Everyone loved it! So start thrifting!

 One last thing that I thought was neat. The picture on the left was taken a few weeks before the wedding. Notice the difference in the hair? I had bought some clip in hair extensions a year or so prior to clip in every once in a while. As much as I color my hair I thought it would never work for my wedding because the hair didn't match. A friend of mine who is a stylist colored the hair and my hair and It matched perfectly! They were a lot cheaper than having glue-in or sew-in extensions, and I could take em out whenever I needed. My hair was too short to do anything cute so I'm glad I had these handy!