2013 - Year in Review

As I did last year, this year I am going to do my 2013 year in review.  I didn’t have any many milestones this year as last, but it was still a pretty great 2013!!

-        Turned dirty 30…

-        Got MARRIED!

-        Gained 3 awesome step-kids

-        Started our own Family Traditions

-        Held the same job all year (If you ever heard me complain, you’ll be as surprised as I am :o )

Wow, can that really be it for this year?!!  My life has finally slowed down a bit this year.  Now, Let’s bring on 2014!!!!!

Divergent

I hopped on the wagon to read Divergent.

This book is comparable to the Hunger Games trilogy, so I thought I’d give it a shot. My step-daughter read this book in less than 2 days. She said it was absolutely amazing. It took me a bit longer, but that is because it was the Christmas break, we had lots of family and events going on, among other things in life. I managed to make this my 12th book of the year (which was my GOAL for 2013) by finishing it on December 30. I was really pushing it.

The nation is divided into 5 factions. When children turn 16, they must select which faction they will devote the rest of their lives to; whether staying with their parents in the one they grew up in, or choosing a new one and leaving their family behind. Divergent stars a 16 year old girl, Tris, who decides to leave her home faction of Abnegation to live among the Dauntless. She trained with the Dauntless, learned their way of living and fell in love. However, Tris is keeping a secret from everyone she knows. If her secret is revealed, she will be killed by her new family and friends of Dauntless. Can she keep this a secret while going through rigorous training that is meant to tell the leaders who holds this special secret?

 This was definitely an interesting book. It didn’t hook me until I was about 75% through with it. It was very slow at the beginning, leading up to all the action. I do plan to read the second book of this. I would rate this a 3 out of 5 due to the slowness of more than half of the book.