Since I haven’t finished a book in the last few days and I have an itching to post, I’m going to write about my recent reading activities.
Bible: I’m currently working my way ever so slowly through the Old Testament at the rate of one chapter per day. I recently made it to Numbers. So far there is a lot of counting and census taking. I’m pretty sure that’s where the name of the book came in. My only question is how the numbering is going to be sustained for the next thirty chapters. Stay tuned.
So Brave, Young, and Handsome: Leif Enger’s latest book has recently been relegated to the bottom of the TBR pile. Please don’t think that it has anything to do with the quality of the book. Instead, it has been relegated only because I purchased it and I have a pile of library books to get through before the weekend. With that as a preface, the first one hundred pages were compelling, if a bit slow. More on that soon.
The Gathering: One of the library books with a deadline, this book, which I have heard about in almost every possible medium, is amazingly readable. Though depressing and pretty crude, I am fascinated by Veronica and her Irish Catholic world. Veronica is probably the most disillusioned, cynical heroine I’ve ever read.
The 3 A.M. Epiphany: Ironically, this is the book I read most nights right before I turn out the light. I like to read one or two of the prompts and ruminate on them whilst I fall asleep. The prompts in this book are original and thought provoking. I’d recommend it for writers and for anyone who needs a good bedtime story.
An interesting reading journal guide can be found here.
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Your bible reading reminds me of The Year of Living Biblically, a book I recently finished. He reads the obscure sections most people never get around to, but he also tries to live by all the laws in the bible. Have you read that book?
I haven’t read that book, but I heard about it on NPR. Reading the Bible is quite the project; I can’t imagine abiding by all of the archaic stuff. I also want to read A.J. Jacobs’ other book, The Know-It-All: One Man’s Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World. It’s about him reading the entire Encyclopedia Britannica. Crazy.
I felt the same way about The Gathering…depressing, but compulsively readable.
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