Continuing on with the year’s book reviews…
16: Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality by Donald Miller. (Received as a gift. 240 pages. 2 days.) Hilarious, vulnerable, rambling, profound, out-of-the-box, convicting, and will be required high school reading in my home after Mere Christianity and What’s So Amazing About Grace. Blue Like Jazz is excellent reading for anyone tripped up by the idea of Christianity, as well as for those who have grown up with ‘fairy-tale’ stories of Noah’s Ark and a flannelgraph Jesus.
15: Time Travelers Never Die by Jack McDevitt. (Russ borrowed from the library. I borrowed from his book stack. 371 pages. 4 days.) Russ wanted me to read his book aloud to him in the truck while he was driving. I can’t stand to start in the middle of a book, so I was a terrible wife and started at the beginning (by myself). And I can’t stand to not finish a book, so finish it I did.
Time Travelers Never Die was a fairly entertaining romp through history, visiting various countries, attending pivotal events, and meeting influential people. If you could travel through time (without changing the course of history), where would you go? What events would you watch unfold? Who would you like to meet? But if you are looking for more….edge-of-your-seat time travel, try Timeline by Crichton. (And then watch the movie, if only to see Gerard Butler. Swoon.)
14: Dutch Color by Douglas M. Jones III. (From the school room bookshelf. 174 pages. 2 days.) I learned a little about the Netherlands, the golden era of Dutch art, tulips, and mixing paints in this children’s mystery. The story itself…. meh. Levi seemed to enjoy it on his read-through, but he’s pretty easy to please.