THE RASMUSSEN CLUB:: Matched

Saturday, June 25, 2011

Matched

I just finished reading Matched, by Ally Condie from SLC, UT (can I get a whoot whoot!) I enjoyed this book immensely.
Cassia can't wait for her seventeenth birthday. For that is the day she will find out who she will marry. When her best friend appears on the matching screen, she couldn't be happier. Until another face flashes briefly on the screen.
In a society where everything is chosen for you, Cassia is caught between a life she has always known, or an unpaved road nobody dares to travel. Perfection, or passion. Which would you choose?

1 comment:

Anonymous said...: Great review! We're looking to get Ally to come present at our Teen Author Boot Camp next spring. I've only read the first chapter of her book, but loved it. I need to pick it up.

P.S. love the picture!; June 26, 2011 at 9:44 PM

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Quotes that Inspire

Never, never, never give up. -Winston Churchill
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. - Franklin D. Roosevelt
A ship is safe in harbor, but that’s not what ships are for. - William Shedd
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light not our darkness that frightens us. Some say, “Who am I to be beautiful, smart, or courageous?” Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in all of us. And when we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. -Ambrose Redmoon
When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. - Mark Twain
Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm. - Winston Churchill

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*Family, family, family. It's what life's all about
*Sleeping in occasionally would be nice:) (Yeah right)
*Going to a movie in the theater
*Hanging out with our kids
*Uno wars with Todd (I always win, but he'll tell you otherwise!)
*Oreos and milk
*Driving through the Alpine Loop in the fall
*Music
*Watching our kids learn and grow
*Christmas! Everything from the movies, to the gingerbread PJ's, to the christmas tree, we love it all!
*Bike rides with the fam
*Curling up with a great book
*Egg nog :)
*Christmas movies in July