Books are good and a response to a facebook note
Today, I finally finished reading A Year of Living Biblically by A.J. Jacobs. (Yes, blergeatkitty, I recommend this book for you, just keep reading!)
I know many of y'all are probably going, "Bridget, you always read these Biblical type books and we're ready to read another one of your agree or disagree entries."
However, that's not what this book is at all. A.J. Jacobs, an agnostic, decides to chronicle a year of trying to live by the Bibles how ever many laws and tries to learn them and live by them. Different days take on different laws which he adds to what he is doing, or at least he tries.
He goes from a clean shaven New Yorker that blends into the crowd to a guy with a foot long beard, wearing a white robe, that looks like shepherd right out of the Bible!
The way he writes about his whole experiement is pretty hilsarious! He even goes to Jerusalem and he talks to many pastors and different religious leaders. It's not one of those books with tons of facts and figures, either.
It's more like a diary of sorts, but not quite. I'll not say more, but it was a great book and it should be read!
Now, on the back of the book, the UPC sticker was placed like usual. After I finished reading the book was the first time I actually looked at the sticker.
My thought upon looking at the sticker, "Well, that would've been a totally different book."
Like many UPC stickers, the title cut off the "A" and then it cut off the title when it just didn't fit. So, instead of the title being on the UPC sticker, it read, "YEAR OF LIVING BI."
Totally. Different. Book.
Also, I don't know if he would've been up to that challenge, or if his wife would've agreed to that!
Today, I also read a book by James Thurber. The book I read was The Wonderful O.
Oh, get your mind out of the gutter! (Yes, yes, I know he wrote a book called Is Sex Necessary? and i have read that book!)
However, this book is about the letter O! Or, well, the lack of the letter O. I'll just put some excerpts of whats on the inside of the cover. . .
Their vessel was called
Aeiu
which has every vowel but O.
The owner hated
O
because his mother
had become wedged
in a porthole
and they couldn't pull her in
so they had to push her out.
. . .
when the pirates
. . .
decided to get rid of all word with an
O
in them.
Cnfusin reigned, and chas.
A man named Otto Ott,
when asked his name,
could only stutter.
Ophelia Oliver was ashamed.
. . .
there were four words with an
O
that must not be lost.
They knew three of them right away, and it took awhile to think of the fourth . . . and well, just go read the book!
Last night, I wrote a note on facebook called, "How I Inspired Gary Shannon," and I had made sure to tag Gary Shannon in the note, and he remembered that happening! Awesome!
Then, here's part of my chat history with Briana from this evening on facebook:
Briana
A once michevious little rabbit started school and took a real liking to reading books.
Sometimes he would get so involved in the story, he became absolutely entranced, and you could not get his attention for anything!
Bridget
um, oksy?
Briana
You know what the called him?
Bridget
what?
Briana
Peter Caught-in-Tale
Bridget
*groan*
I know many of y'all are probably going, "Bridget, you always read these Biblical type books and we're ready to read another one of your agree or disagree entries."
However, that's not what this book is at all. A.J. Jacobs, an agnostic, decides to chronicle a year of trying to live by the Bibles how ever many laws and tries to learn them and live by them. Different days take on different laws which he adds to what he is doing, or at least he tries.
He goes from a clean shaven New Yorker that blends into the crowd to a guy with a foot long beard, wearing a white robe, that looks like shepherd right out of the Bible!
The way he writes about his whole experiement is pretty hilsarious! He even goes to Jerusalem and he talks to many pastors and different religious leaders. It's not one of those books with tons of facts and figures, either.
It's more like a diary of sorts, but not quite. I'll not say more, but it was a great book and it should be read!
Now, on the back of the book, the UPC sticker was placed like usual. After I finished reading the book was the first time I actually looked at the sticker.
My thought upon looking at the sticker, "Well, that would've been a totally different book."
Like many UPC stickers, the title cut off the "A" and then it cut off the title when it just didn't fit. So, instead of the title being on the UPC sticker, it read, "YEAR OF LIVING BI."
Totally. Different. Book.
Also, I don't know if he would've been up to that challenge, or if his wife would've agreed to that!
Today, I also read a book by James Thurber. The book I read was The Wonderful O.
Oh, get your mind out of the gutter! (Yes, yes, I know he wrote a book called Is Sex Necessary? and i have read that book!)
However, this book is about the letter O! Or, well, the lack of the letter O. I'll just put some excerpts of whats on the inside of the cover. . .
Their vessel was called
Aeiu
which has every vowel but O.
The owner hated
O
because his mother
had become wedged
in a porthole
and they couldn't pull her in
so they had to push her out.
. . .
when the pirates
. . .
decided to get rid of all word with an
O
in them.
Cnfusin reigned, and chas.
A man named Otto Ott,
when asked his name,
could only stutter.
Ophelia Oliver was ashamed.
. . .
there were four words with an
O
that must not be lost.
They knew three of them right away, and it took awhile to think of the fourth . . . and well, just go read the book!
Last night, I wrote a note on facebook called, "How I Inspired Gary Shannon," and I had made sure to tag Gary Shannon in the note, and he remembered that happening! Awesome!
Then, here's part of my chat history with Briana from this evening on facebook:
Briana
A once michevious little rabbit started school and took a real liking to reading books.
Sometimes he would get so involved in the story, he became absolutely entranced, and you could not get his attention for anything!
Bridget
um, oksy?
Briana
You know what the called him?
Bridget
what?
Briana
Peter Caught-in-Tale
Bridget
*groan*