 xanga has gotten much cooler than since the last time i was posting. Not that i was ever a regular poster for anything. but since i have a comment...i suppose i ought to post something of some actual, substance.... Recently i've gotten back into reading. I used to be a voracious reader. Not the fastest, although i'm definitly in the fast category, but i often like to read at pace which allows me to hear the author speaking in my head. Speaking with the voice i give to the narrator, anyways. Part of the fun of reading for me is imagining all the different voices. Maybe someday i'll be one of those people who reads audiobooks. That would be awesome anyways..not until recently have i gotten back into the habit of reading lots of books all the time. I did that through my elementary and middle school years a fair amount, but kinda got out of it when i hit highschool, for a bunch of reasons. Anyways...right now i'm reading about four books at once. Possibly five. When i was in the library a couple weeks back they had a bunch of stuff on display for black history month, so i checked out Booker T. Washington's Up from Slavery. I read the first chapter of that today. There's also a fascinating book by Rodney Stark that i'm reading for school called Victory of Reason. His basic premise is that Christianity is the reason that Western society has dominated scientific and cultural advancement in the past 1000 years. But, despite the fact that I also need to finish reading Utopia by Sir Thomas More, and a few others that i'm reading on the side, right now the two books i'm most into are Letters to Malcolm, by C.S. Lewis, and The Man Who Was Thursday, by G.K. Chesterton.  Letters to Malcolm: Cheifly on Prayer, is quite an intriguing little book.
What's interesting is how personal a book it is. It's letters from Lewis to a close freind. Except it most likely isn't. Most likely, Malcolm is someone he's made up. He says several times throughout the book that it would be quite a waste for him to write a book on the subject of prayer, because it would seem to be an "instructional," and most of what he would write would simply be his personal opinion. The irony is that Lewis ingeniously wrote a book on prayer, that, because of it's format, does not seem instructional, but is meditative and opinionative. It serves it's purpose quite well then. It was one of the last books published before he died, perhaps the last book, and just that fact alone makes it rather interesting. anyways...the substance of the book is what makes it worthwhile. i don't have time to write anymore at the moment though. more next time, perhaps. and as for  The Man who was Thursday: A Nightmare, well..... 
They sure have alot of different covers for it, lol. My copy is the Penguin version, btw...top rh pic as for it, i think i'll just let it speak for itself... oh ya...and i went mountain biking for the first time in forever today. It's a good feelings to be flying back down the hill back home after a good ride. We have some great trails around here too. I think i just about killed myself though...i'm so out of shape. my bike needs a tuneup too... vale | 
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