Booking It: The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight

The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight by Jennifer E. Smith

Who would have guessed that four minutes could change everything?

Today should be one of the worst days of seventeen-year-old Hadley Sullivan's life. Having missed her flight, she's stuck at JFK airport and late to her father's second wedding, which is taking place in London and involves a soon-to-be stepmother Hadley's never even met. Then she meets the perfect boy in the airport's cramped waiting area. His name is Oliver, he's British, and he's sitting in her row.

A long night on the plane passes in the blink of an eye, and Hadley and Oliver lose track of each other in the airport chaos upon arrival. Can fate intervene to bring them together once more?

Quirks of timing play out in this romantic and cinematic novel about family connections, second chances, and first loves. Set over a twenty-four-hour-period, Hadley and Oliver's story will make you believe that true love finds you when you're least expecting it. 

I loved this book. I thought it was humorous, but at the same time very thought provoking and interesting. The main characters, Hadley and Oliver, were so easy to love and relate to and I was left wanting to know more and more about them and what happened to them after the book was finished. 

I think that the author did a fabulous job at truly showing both of their emotions and the up and downs that relationships can have..even if they're only a day old. 

It was a really easy read and only took me a couple of days to finish (I probably could've finished in a day if I weren't so busy). 

 

*****

five out of five for sure.

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What I Learned From Frozen

I'm sure many of you have seen the new Disney movie Frozen. It has been raved about since it hit theaters back in November, and for good reason. This Disney movie has to be one of the best movies that I have seen in a while. It's easy to look at movies like this as just fun kid movies with no real meaning behind them, but Frozen's message really stuck out to me.

The biggest theme that I saw throughout the movie was fear. Elsa was terrified. She didn't understand how to use her powers, and there was nobody to really help her learn. That's why she was so angry; everything that she did that was "harmful" was because she was scared. But as soon as Anna sacrificed herself to save Elsa, it made sense. Love thaws a frozen heart. Love is how to control the powers. Love casts out fear.

It's easy to skip over this detail, but to me it sticks out clearly throughout the whole movie. And I have to amend Disney for putting such a great and powerful message into the movie. I loved it and I will love it forever.

xx, Shiloh

A Month of Instas: March

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Happy April 1st everyone!

It's finally time to say goodbye to March and welcome in a new month and I couldn't be more thrilled about it. 

The month of March was really great to me. A lot of really fun things happened as you can see in all of the instagram posts from above. I've been actively continuing on my #100happydays throughout the month and also posting some random things here or there. I have some throwbacks and some amazing quotes that I just fell in love with over the month. 

For me March was:

♠ A new start. (I said the same thing in January, but really God worked on my heart so very much this month that it felt like a fresh start.)

♠ One month closer to graduating. (56 days left!!!)

♠ New experiences. What with going to Lexington for Winter Jam for the first time ever to beginning a lot of new things in my life. 

♠ It meant hope.

I just really loved March and I am loving April already. 

Here's to a great month, and many more adventures.

xx, Shiloh. 

Publishing My Book?

SAY WHAT?

Okay, guys. I need some serious advice from you all today. I am strongly, and I mean strongly considering self-publishing Coffee Colored as an e-book. It's the first book that I've written (as you all probably know) and I thought, hey, why not test the waters and publish it through an e-book before getting any actual publishers involved. I just want to get some opinions on this before I actually do it.

I still have a bit more editing to do before I would do it anyway, but what do you think? Would you consider buying this on your kindle or other e-reader? Please let me know what you think, and also what prices you think would be good to sell it at!

Thanks much!

xx, Shiloh.