The Library is Your Friend



My friend Mel likes to visit the library, I do too. I find it much easier to read when I have a bunch of books at my disposal. Oh I love to buy books, I love books, and I feel blessed to have a library of my own. Sadly we are at the point though were I can't just go buy books, so the Library is my friend. I just finished reading "Aslan's Call: Finding Our Way to Narnia" it was a quick read. Took my a little less then a day. I was confused a little by reading it, I think it was a self imposed confusion. It weaves between spiritual insights and small theology. As I neared the end of the book I think I began to understand that the book accomplishes what it set out to do. That is understand Aslan's Call on our lives (and that being Jesus'). Oh there are parallels drawn between the Chronicles of Narnia and theological understandings, but that was not he point of the book. It was more of spiritual insight through this one lens of focus. In that light it was a fun read, it was touching, it was thought provoking, it was encouraging. If you have a library and want to read something that maybe isn't in your normal vein of reading pick it up, take about an hour or two and read it, enjoy it. Of course I recommend that you have some understanding and reading of the whole Chronicles of Narnia series to have a glimpse of understanding the book.

PLAYING NARNIA: The last couple of pages is a fictional response to reading the books. By far this was a very creative and fun read, worth the book as a whole.

This brings up the fact now would be a good time to re-read the siers as the movie is coming out in December... My suggested reading order:
1. The Loin the Witch and the Wardrobe
2. The Magicians Nephew
3. The Horse and His Boy
4. Prince Caspian
5. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
6. The Silver Chair
7. The Last Battle

I believe I will reread them next in this order (next being I will start tonight). That is not the order I originally read them in, but I think it is the order I like most and will read them to my children in.

I also have just finished "Truth and Fiction in The Da Vinci Code ." What I liked most about this book was that it WAS NOT written from any SPIRITUAL, CHRISTIAN, RELIGIOUS point of view. It was written by a Historian, to say the HISTORY given in The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown is just plain BAD scholarship. I will have much more to say about this book in the weeks to come as I "learned" a lot and a lot of the historical inaccuracies are shown throughout the book of Dan Brown's. Overall the issue here is that Dan Brown presents many TRUTHS or FACTS but they are not TRUTHS or FACTS according to HISTORY. Many of the documents which he presents as truth or says are being represented as truth don't even mention the things his book says it does. Now normally this wouldn't be a problem EXCEPT that Dan Brown presents them in such a HISTORICAL way that he is making IDIOTS of us all if we are to believe what the characters say about many of the documents and historical people mentioned. More latter. It was a good read, I DO RECOMMEND for ANYBODY, religious or not, don't be a fool, don't be dumb, and educated yourself about history.

Posted: Wed - November 9, 2005 at 11:19 AM       |

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