the sad thing is none of my eighth grade blog so no one can fill everyone else in on the wonders of the Golden Dragon… 🙂

“five brothers and a million sisters” – let’s just start with the best book I read this week – a bio on the NKOTB – new kids on the block – I guess take whatever band you’re currently loving, and let’s assume it’s a group of guys about 10 years older than you – and have that group fall off the face of the earth five years from now, only to resurface 15 years later awesomely – and then get the chance to read their story, you might then understand the joy I had reading this book – just great – I guess my favorite fact is that four of the five went to elementary school together

“the barack Obama story” – this was the major book I finished this week – great biographer, david maraniss, who basically wrote the story of the president’s life to Harvard grad school – the biographer started with barack’s great-grandparents – in Kansas and in Kenya – just an amazing story to me b/c even as the president grew up, no one could see the path his life would take him – just a remarkable story in the sense that you never know what the things you go through now are preparing you for later in life

“quiet” – I was disappointed in this book – but I think it was b/c I read a book in the summer, “quiet kids” that pretty well gave me most of this book as well – introverts rule the world, regardless!!! and this book further proves that point (I mean, I think it now annoys me that all the workers at publix have to speak to me – I’m like, “just leave me alone – I don’t have the energy to shop AND tell you hello…”

“the year of living biblically” – this book was sad to me – the author spent a year trying to follow a bunch of rules – eight months with the OT and four with the NT – and, very predictably, and the end, he decided that while an agnostic, he was now a more spiritual agnostic for having done this – so basically, one man’s search to find God on man’s terms – which is to an extent all of our stories unless we believe God actually makes an attempt, or THE attempt, to find us and we have just one path to follow – the gimmickness of the book distressed me

happy MLK tomorrow
maf