A Hungry, Happy, Hippie

Wow I haven't done one of these for so many months! I actually miss it. Read: Beautiful, Broken Hearts by Kami Garcia I loved everything about this young adult novel. It was just so glorious. Most of what I loved was that it dealt with an issue that is so important for young readers to read about. Peyton begins her senior year with her perfect boyfriend Reed and accepting a soccer scholarship from her dream school. That is until a confrontation with her boyfriend results in her being thrown down a flight of stairs. And now she's stuck in a town where next to no one believes her. She thinks her life is officially over when she can't play soccer anymore when her mother sends her off to a small town to live with her uncle. And when she meets the sexy boxer Owen Law she doesn't even know what's going on! This is so much more than just a teenage romance novel. I love that it deals with abuse both physical and emotional abuse and how so many victims' stories aren&#

*Spoilers Ahead - in case you didn't work that out* Wow where do I even start? I mean really? Did anyone see that coming? (Apart from all the major news outlets that have been reporting about this for the last two weeks) But I think Chris Harrison may have actually been accurate when he said that this might be the most dramatic Bachelor finale ever. But I’m getting ahead of myself. Let’s start with the final two. Becca K and Lauren B, both of whom were good picks to win because there were two Becca/Bekah’s and four Laurens. I was rooting for my Becca/Bekah’s from the get go. In my Bachelor Episode One Recap I said that I want/predict that either Becca K or Bekah M would win. So I’m enthralled yet not surprised that Becca was in his final two. I wouldn’t have picked Lauren in the beginning but as the weeks went on I definitely saw a connection build between the two. Was it as large as Becca’s? I don’t know (I don't think so but that might have just come down to the w