Summer Review

Wow it's really hard to believe that our summer is quickly coming to an end! It really flew by!

Well, book club this summer has been a little on the small side, but I have enjoyed getting together and the discussions.

June's Book Club was at Faith's house, we discussed Blessed Child. There was a lot to discuss with this book. It was an interesting concept and contained some powerful and abstract ideas such as... what our prayers look like... colorful bursts of electricity going up to God and then shooting around the world. It also addressed suffering and healing and how God works in this broken and hurting world. Ultimately it makes you think about what it would be like if Jesus came into the modern world today as He did over 2000 years ago... how would people respond? It was pretty interesting. One of the central themes in this book was power, the use and miss use of it. It came down to a battle between good verses evil. I will leave it up to you to guess who triumphed in the end.

July's Book Club was at Ami's house. We took a field trip out of the neighborhood and got to visit Ami's neck of the woods... no pun intended. Rose, Tanya S., Ami and I had a nice time chatting and discussing Lovely Bones. The bulk of the discussion revolved around heaven and the books take on the after life. We concluded that in the book it heaven was more about earth than it was about heaven, and we wondered if by definition that would be hell rather than heaven. The books version of heaven was left up to the imagination of the person who died. It was more of a place to recover and process your own death rather than be swept into a bliss filled and oblivious after life. If you were to contrast this to the Christian version of heaven, it could be summed up as follows: In Lovely Bones heaven is a world created to revolve around each person specifically. Christians believe that heaven is a place that revolves around God, free of pain and inperfection, you want for nothing and you are occupied with singing praises to God while walking the streets of gold. We debated a little about what we thought would be better versions to go to.

August book club was at Sarah's house. It was only fitting since it is one of Sarah's favorite books. Faith, Skye, Jen and Sarah discussed the merits of Michael Hosea. Is he really that attractive of a main character? Was his response to Angel believable? Did the ending make sense? Over all we really liked it. At times the book seemed a little preachy, but in the end we were all won over to the story. It truely is a beautiful love story.