A Break from Harry Potter

I was running the other day. I was beautiful outside and I didn’t feel like going back home yet. I stopped in at Barnes and Noble Bookstore without a credit card. I looked around at the bestsellers section and then at the new in paperback books. I saw a few titles that I recognized and even a few that I had read. I also looked at the journals and wanted to buy all of the pretty ones, happens to be a weakness of mine. Then I moseyed upstairs and checked out the Christian living and Christian inspiration section. I got the giggles just looking at the book titles. What Would Jesus Eat?, hmm, good question. Well considering that He was Jewish… Or what about Live in the Moment, can we really learn that, or better yet experience that by reading a book?

I recently read the book The Shack by William Young. I had no expectations before reading the book. I personally liked the book for the most part. The author did a fantastic job of conveying emotion in the relationship between the main character and God. I would recommend the book, but I would also remind anyone who has already read to is going to read the book that the author wrote a fiction book. Yes, the author does convey his views of God, but that is what it is, opinion. It is a fiction book and should be read that way. It also needs to be read with an open mind. I think that if the book was read only to dissect it, the overall story and feeling of the book would be missed, which I think is the whole reason the author wrote the book…reminding us that emotions are a part of our relationship with God.

The Shack was a break from reading the Harry Potter series. I have read the first two books and am planning to keep reading the series. I am not a fanatic…yet. They are good though. I don’t have the third book yet so today I started reading True Believer by Nicholas Sparks. I do enjoy his writing and the movies. I saw Nights in Rodanthe this weekend. Good but not as good I was hoping for. Not the A Walk to Remember or The Notebook caliber. It is written more to an older age group than the other two.