Book Blog Number 2

Title: Oceans Apart
Author: Karen Kingsbury



This book is about a pilot who made a horrible mistake one night when he was grounded in Hawaii because of a bad storm. He was married and had two kids at the time that he always had to leave because of work. While in Hawaii, he stays with one of the flight attendants and ends up having an affair with her. They didn't keep in contact, but everything changed when a flight that the flight attendant was aboard crashed eight years later. She ended up writing in her will that if she were to die, she wanted him to be with his father. His father turned out to be the pilot and he secret was exposed. Throughout the book, they just go through the process of what happened and how they fixed things in the end.

I loved the story line of the book. It was a great story and very inspiring. It taught me a lesson on forgiveness and showed a true test of love. I loved the description in this book. It gave me great visuals on everything and gave me just enough to feel like I was a part of the book. I didn't like that this book skipped around from the present to the past and then back to the present again. I often found myself wondering "Is this happening now of is this in the past?". I think the author could have done a better job at introducing the characters instead of just plainly saying, "This is the mom and she's a flight attendant."

The theme of this book overall is forgiveness. I think the author was trying to say that no matter what happened, you should learn how to forgive somebody of their mistakes. It shows that no matter what things come in between your marriage, you should not take it out on the kid that had no say in anything that happened.

The pilot's wife starts off in love with the pilot. She has a perfect family and enjoys life. After the shocking blow of her husband having another kid, she turned bitter and cold. She hated seeing the child or even hearing his name. She never wanted to talk to her husband and left whenever she got a chance. After a course of being with the child for 3 weeks, she comes to love him and starts being nicer. Her and her husband start to work out their problems and they don't get a divorce and she decides not to send the child to foster care.

Book Blog number 1

Title: Mistaken Identity
Author: Don & Susie Van Ryn and Newell, Colleen & Whitney Cerak



Overall, this book is about five lives that were lost in a tragic accident involving a Taylor University van. One woman was rushed rushed to the hospital. Among the students were Laura Van Ryn and Whitney Cerak. Somehow their identities became mixed up and Laura's family believed that their daughter's progression in the I.C.U was getting better. In fact, this was Whitney the whole time. So, they had to notify the parents and from then on they just explain the grief they went through.

I liked that this book started off as if the girls were still alive. I had no idea what was happening until the time came when they were in an accident. I liked the whole story leading up to it and the pictures that were spread out throughout the book. What I didn't like was the excess details that were put in the book. At one time, they totally went off subject and started talking about when the girls were younger. I didn't like that they jumped around a lot. Sometimes, it seemed as if the book had chapters that just dragged on and on and on. It seemed relentless for a couple of chapters, but in the end they always came back to the main focus of the story.

The author presents the information in a very cool way. They start off recording details from the girls' past and make you feel like you are a part of their life. The authors also incorporate pictures that the girls really cherished. It was sort of set up like a journal/scrapbook.

This book increased my interest in the subject matter because it made me wonder how many accidents caused the victims to be labeled with the false identity. It also made me realize the importance of why the doctors use dental records to verify the person's identity. If it wasn't for the dental records, the family would have just simply thought that she was confused and that she didn't know what her name was because she was thrown from the vehicle.