Bill and I have been making a few trips to local bookstores, I guess you could call it a date night. We both have a weakness for books. And usually, I can just pick them up, read a few pages, and put them back. But we've come home with a small stack of them.
Bill was invited by one of his co-workers to be a part of an early morning "bible study" with a handful of other religiously-minded people at his office. Which is super rad. To begin they've chosen to study and discuss the book, The Case for a Creator by Lee Strobel.
I'm currently plowing through The Wordy Shipmates by Sarah Vowell--one of my favorite authors. She focuses mainly on the accounts of Puritan settlers of Massachusets. It's very interesting, especially after making it more than 3/4 of the way through 1491 by Charles Mann a few months ago. There's very little mention of Thanksgiving feasts in either of these books--which heretofore represented the bulk of my knowledge about America's early history.
FYI: Borders bookstores are going out of business all over the place, so it's a pretty good time to pick up a few books if you haven't indulged in a while.
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Oh Mal, I heart Sarah Vowell! I'm listening to Assassination Vacation right now (I'm not a big book listener, but I finally got my free download audible.com kept promising me on This American Life, and I think her stuff is so much funnier when she's reading it, anyway). I will read The Wordy Shipmates next!
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