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To: epicure who wrote (4518)1/23/2004 10:13:22 AM
From: Rambi  Read Replies (2) of 51713
 
I haven't read the Da Vinci Code yet. Maybe I'll buy it when it hits the 1.00 Sales shelf at Half-Price, but it hasn't appealed to me yet.
Current reading:
Thomas Cahill's Sailing the Wine-DArk Sea: Why the Greeks Matter
I loved his How the Irish Saved Civilization so hope this is equally well-written.

Just finished The Five People You Meet in Heaven by MItch Albom, the guy who wrote Tuesdays With Morrie. I had been on the waiting list at the library since October for it and expected something much better. It was a real disappointment. Schlocky. It left me with the same empty feeling Bridges of Madison County did. No wait- that's not fair. Bridges left me gagging on the floor.
It wasn't as bad as Celestine Prophecies. I am still amazed at the popularity of that one. I guess people want simple magical answers to things- or maybe they want to believe they have read something profound but without really putting forth the effort real thought might require? I read a lot of light stuff, since personally I think reading should be entertaining, so it wasn't just that it wasn't a DEEP book. I just didn't think it had much in the way of -- anything.

This morning a friend sent me a recommendation for a book called Stalking the Divine: Contemplating Faith With the Poor Clares. It sounds excellent. The Poor Clares of Perpetual Adoration are nuns who pray for the world. They actually read the papers every morning and pray for people to whom bad things happen. The author is a lapsed Catholic who stopped believing, but finds the idea of faith compelling. Made me think of Salzman's Lying Awake.

ANd that is my weekly reading report.
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