Welcome!

As a growing Christian, I am constantly, especially here lately, being challenged with what I am feeding my brain especially through television. After watching what I thought was going to be a good show, when it came out this Fall, last night I realized the filth and the underlying messages are just too much I am really feeling God tug at me and I am hearing that voice saying you should not be watching this. So I have decided to start spending my free time reading!

Growing up I was never much of a reader, I guess if I wanted to fall asleep quicker I should have picked up a book and started reading because growing up that is exactly what reading done to me. Every once in a while the required reading for school interested me but most of the time I found it incredibly boring. However back around May/June of this year I decided to try reading for a hobby and I was shocked to find that I actually liked reading. Maybe it was the book I chose to read after looking at some select titles and descriptions but I am not sure. I was also completely shocked to find that I could read and almost 500 page book in 5 days....I mean this was the first book I had picked up in a really long time, now remember I said reading made me fall asleep so to read a 100 pages a day to me was just phenomenal!

Since then I have read about 30 books from different genres but the majority is Christian fiction. So far my favorite authors are Karen Kingsbury and Nicholas Sparks!

Now within the past week or so since I finished reading Nicholas Sparks most recent book titled The Last Song, I have been wanting to share the things that I learn from reading a book, what is I like about a book or even if there is something I don't like about a book. Thus the reason for creating this blog, I am going to use this blog to convey what I want to share about what I am reading or have read. I hope you will find what I have to say useful in your search for a book to read and I would love to take this time to welcome you to Valerie's Reading Cafe!

May God bless all who visit this page and may the words I say inspire you to go out and change the world one step at a time! Please feel free to leave any comments that you may have!