— St. John Bosco
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
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Faith, Life, Music, and The Glory of Story
- Janny
- A Chicago area girl born and bred, I've lived in Mississippi, Montana, Michigan, and...ten years in the wilds of northeastern Indiana, where I fought the noble fight as a book editor. Now, I'm back in Illinois once more...for good. (At least I intend to make it that way!)
3 comments:
Very true---nice quote.
I wonder, though--how do you know it's unsound unless you've read it? I do rely on friends' recommendations for or against, but...
T2
Oh, I think you can tell within a couple of pages whether a book's going to take you down a path it ought not to take you down. Some of us go down them anyway...and I could especially identify with this quote after reading CROSS, by James Patterson.
Keenly as I love the character of Alex Cross that Patterson created, and as much as I'd wanted to read that book, the actual storyline and treatment was pretty much undiluted, unrelieved darkness. I got done with it and wanted to take a shower from the inside out, and as I contemplated it, I thought, "Hmmm, maybe that's not such a good book to spend time in, morally speaking."
But I wouldn't have had to read the whole thing in order to realize that, either. I guess my conscience is just becoming more audible. :-)
Janny
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