Lone Survivor Revisited

We did a really bad job with the last post, but we've just been having so many thoughts about Navy Seals recently. According to this book and to everything we've ever heard said about Navy Seals, they are highly trained individuals with unmatched courage, strength, dedication etc etc...and basically...we just don't want anymore of them to die, ever.

Is that so ridiculous?

We're not trying to say anything negative about their choice of career or anything, but the lives of Michael Murphy, Matthew Axelson, Danny Dietz and many other servicemen and women who have died during the course of this decade long war, are valuable lives, really valuable, and we just wish that things could be different.

How can things be different?

Even if you don't have an immediate answer for the above question, if you are religious at all, just be mindful of the troops in your prayers, ask God to watch over them and to do what he can for their families.

Sorry for the emo post.

xoxo
Gwen

ps. Check out this website too: http://www.lonesurvivorfoundation.org/

Lone Survivor: Have You Read This Book?

(Oh hey Gwen, these pictures look pretty ghetto on your blog...)
Whatever.
Ignore how the pictures are arranged, YogueIN never claimed to be anything but what it is.

ANYWAY

Have you read the book Lone Survivor by Marcus Luttrell? We have and it's heartbreaking. We can't get it out of our mind.

 In fact, we mentioned in our last post that yesterday was our younger sisters wedding. There was a moment when we were on the dance floor that we had the distinct thought "This is good to be dancing, it's helping me not to feel so sad about these young men and the war and the entire tragedy that was operation redwing"


Crazy right? We always get too attached to characters in books.

You can click here to find out the details about the book, and there's also a movie coming out where Tim Riggins (aka Taylor Kitsch) will play one of the Navy Seals about whom the book was written.

So . . .we're not sure where we're going with this . . .
xoxo
Gwen!

Book Review: Diary Of A Bad Year; Also, a Borepost

We’ve gotten a few emails asking to know what types of books we like to read. So we thought it would be a good idea to tell you about the book that we are currently reading. Emphasis on the word “thought”, because as soon as we started writing this post and began to die of boredom we decided that we could not kill you all as well. So, suffice to say, this is a good book. 

Read about it here

Continue reading this post if you want to be bored:

This is a cool read because it's two books mixed into one. The two narrators tell two totally seperate stories. The male protagonist is actually writing a book within the book and he allows us to read excepts from it, you start to feel smart because he talks about politics and ancient governments and history, while the female protagonist talks about how the male protagonist is always looking at her bottom and falling in love with her. It sounds like it doesn't work but it does. So on the one hand you could read this book on the beach because it has the romance part of it, but you can also read it on the bus because the cover isn't pink and there is some serious subject matter in there.

Oh really? 

Told you. So bored. But it's like whatevs.