and like eighty trillion spam comments…

so anyway, st. k, apology for misspelling palin – messed up on that one – and lazy me didn’t correct it (i do have an edit button, but it’s soooooo much trouble…)

you’re right – i do need to read graceling and fire – on the list – first though, i need to survive the BOB committee – which actually may not be that difficult b/c most of the books those people told me to read, i can’t get anyway b/c there are no copies in the libraries – alas…

“the rivalry: mystery at the army-navy game” – i did get to read this one for BOB this week – it was one of those books that would be great for BOB b/c it’s nonoffensive, but it wasn’t anything that like moves you to anything – the strange part to me was that mystery was in the title, but there really wasn’t a mystery in the book

“traveling light” by max lucado – free nook book – basically, give your burdens to God – and don’t carry around your own baggage all the time – good point

“prisoner in the third cell” – free nook book – historical nonfiction – basically, what happened to john the baptist after he was thrown in prison – tries to answer the question of why God doesn’t sometimes answer our prayers for help – or rescue “good” people

“the centaur” by updike – my lone “classic” book of the summer – heavy reading – boring reading – vulgar reading – the irony being that it was recommended from Christianity Today magazine – go figure – not at all impressed with the book – i know, i’m uneducated and can’t appreciate… (it gets worse if you think i’m uneducated though…)

“my life as a dog” – LOVED it – it was cute – book about eddy, the dog from the show “frasier” – a show i watched in high school – couldn’t believe there was a book about the dog – or that the show lasted 11 years – about 9 years after i went off to alabama – and probably like eight years before any of you were born…

“the millennials” – great book – free nook book – father and son look at a poll about the beliefs of those born post-1980 – the millennial generation – learned quite a bit – which is good b/c that’s still the generation i’m teaching – and as an X’er myself, there’s a gap (there’s a gap between just me and my sister) – one of the more heartbreaking things i read was that only about 15 percent, at best, are what i’d call “Christian” – 65 percent say they are but that’s from a very warped idea of what that means

“decision points” by george w. bush – about 300 pages in – i wanted to read it last year, couldn’t b/c all the copies were checked out at the library – but, rechecked this week and apparently, everyone is done reading about our last president:) really good book – i love reading president autobiographies – or things that presidents write – they explain themselves better than most writers that write about them – and, best of all, i found out that President Bush ran a marathon!!!

do hope the summer is going well

mafeld