Diary of a Wimpy Kid review

I've seen Diary of a Wimpy Kid around for quite some time (since 2007) and I wanted to see what all the fuss was about so I picked up the first book in the series from the library.  This 215 page book is a novel, with cartoons interspersed on the pages.  It would be a tolerable book about a middle school child's first year of middle school, if it weren't for a few instances in the beginning of the book.

  The worst of which deals with the wimpy kid's little brother getting a hold of his oldest brother's heavy metal magazine with a scantily dressed women on the front and then taking it to daycare for show and tell.  The mother then makes the older brother answer questions for a list she has written out (page 42) finishing with this quote:

"Do you have anything you 

want to say to women for

having owned this offensive 

magazine?"

I'm sorry women.

Of course this is meant to be funny, which only reinforces that fact that undressing women with one's eyes, etc. is not only harmless, its funny and acceptable.  

A few months ago, I read in the Vancouver Sun that young boys who look at too much porn have trouble relating to women later in life and develop hate issues towards women.

Books like Diary of a Wimpy Kid are the worst for reinforcing the fact that porn is OK and harmless because they are suppose to be books of childhood innocence and fun and so anything in them should be OK to copy. 

As I said this is one of the instances in the book.  Read that book for yourself and decide if it is OK for you.

4 Dating and Marriage Book Reviews

Best overall dating/marriage book I have ever read.  Highly recommend Fit to be Tied.  If I was in a serious relationship I would pick this one up again and maybe even buy it.  

I read I kissed dating goodbye when it first came out and some of the stories I have read have stuck with me over the years; however, this book made no difference on whether I dated or not.  

A pastor told me a few years ago that this book made a real mess for youth and youth pastors because suddenly youth were treating normal dating relationship like they were marriage courtships.

Boy meets girl was a much better book by Joshua Harris.  Even guys that hating I kissed dating goodbye bought this book and read it.  It points out the importance of saving yourself for your wedding night with a personal story and it gives some good lists on how to be a good guy/girl friend (just a friend).  I remember thinking this was a good book when I read it about 11 years ago (when I was first starting College and Career), but I have to admit I would not pick it up again to review.  Also, this book helped two of friends, then graduates of high school, take their relationship much too seriously and it ended in disaster.

Love and Respect is a book I normally would have never touched.  Simply because the idea of respecting a man was laughable.  This book changed my idea of that.  I now would like to respect my future husband (even though it will kill me for sure!).  

Love and Respect is one-third as long as it needs to be, as Dr. Emerson Eggerichs repeats, and then repeats and keeps repeating everything like the reader it soft in the head.  Also, he seems to take a very light view of men that look at porn and lastly, he has a definite down look on women that appears numerous times in the book.  

Blessing,

the little mennonite

Children's books

Get your kids to read Wonder and then read it yourself.  A great teaching book, well written, entertaining, and easy to read.  (Too bad Palacio has to use the Lord's name in vain.)  Best children's book in 2012 (in my personal opinion).

The False Prince is well written.  First book in the series but good as a stand alone book too.  She makes me want to read another one of her books.

The Royal diaries is a very well done series.  Well research too.  Makes me want to read more about the time period or the person.  I  own the Anastasia book. (I got it for 10 cents!)

Dear Canada is another series by Scholastic; although it is good, it is not researched as well as it should have been (A lot of the books in the series is like this).  The editors should have caught this.

Turtle in Paradise is a very easy read.  Not much substance but still a good book.

Enjoyed the Guests of War series; especially book 2.  The series follows a brother and sister as they travel to Canada, as war guests, to escape WWI in England.

Anne of Green Gables

L.M. Montgomery put Canada on the map!  You have to read these!  Its a must.  Really.  Many good teaching points.

Blessings,

the little mennonite

If you liked reading The Help, you will also like...

I read The Help a few months ago and it is extremely well written.  However, its too bad it has so much profanity in it.

Here are some other well written books dealing with similar subject matter:

Uncle Tom's Cabin

An Unlikely Friendship: A novel of Mary Todd Lincoln and Elizaveth Keckley

Another great book series (that got me interested in this subject matter to begin with) is Lynn Austin's Refiner’s Fire series.

For more info on Lynn go here.

Blessings,

the little mennonite