An Interesting Sounding Book

So I got to read the Times Book Review this week and came across a review of a book that I had heard about and have been intrigued by since I saw the title in the indie-booksellers newsletter.



The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff.



If you like historical fiction or mysteries, this sounds like it might be the book to pick up sometime. I plan to when I get to read for pleasure again.




I'll be back to writing about UUA stuff when life slows down next month.

Have You Read.....Eat Pray Love?

I haven't. But since Oprah has had the woman who wrote it on her show twice in a few months, I'm assuming that lots of people on her staff (and Oprah as well) have read it and like it.

I'm usually scared of books that are TOO popular, so I'm debating if it would be a good thing to read. If you have a review of it, I'll be glad to listen.

The Book Is Dead.......Again

I like Jeff Bezos. I loooooooooooooooooooooooooove Amazon.com. I think Kindle is a bad idea.

People have been talking about the death of the book since Gutenberg invented movable type. And while Bezos says that he doesn't think the book is dead, he's acting as if the book is dead.

Digital works for some things. Music. Movies. TV.

But not books. There is just something about holding that bound paper in your hands that does not come from e-(or digital) books. There's even some loss with having books on tape (or CD). [don't get me wrong, I enjoy books on CD when I'm traveling long distances] Reading a book is an experience. You can't dog-ear pages on a screen. You can't highlight lines that touch you.

So while I wish Jeff Bezos and Amazon well, pick on something else besides books. There are so many things that technology can improve on.......books aren't one of them.

A Book We Should All Read

Hello dear readers.

Well I spent the weekend out-of-town so there were no updates to the little blog here. More about the weekend in a separate post, but right now I thought I would bring to your attention a book by one of the best out there. For those of you dear readers who are Catholic, you've probably read this person. Even a good number of my fellow UU Christians have read this person.

Garry Wills, professor emeritus at Northwestern, has a book that came out on October 4. It's title is Head and Heart: American Christianities. It's a longish book at 500+ pages, but is comprehensive like all of Wills' books.

Maybe one day the UU Christian Fellowship will get him for something.