I have started two books and I do not think that I am going to finish reading them.
The book titled “Two Years, No Rain” by Shawn Klomparens is a free book that was sent to me. I felt some sort of responsibility to read it since it was free. But then as I started to read the book it had no appeal for me. According to the back cover it is a story about a weatherman whose wife has left him. He lost his job as lead forecaster for an obscure satellite radio station and he is entangled in a flirtation with a married colleague. To be honest the book had foul language which I did not want to read. Also, the story line in not very appealing either – The main character is getting a divorce because of infidelity and is also flirting with a married colleague. I just did not want to read a story with all these relationship problems.
I then picked up the book titled “A Fortunate Age” by Joanna Smith Rakoff. This book was a recommended in Woman’s Day Magazine. It is about a group of Oberlin graduates whose ambitions and friendships threaten to unravel as they chase their dreams. I made it though chapter three and decided this book was not for me either. I did not want to read about one night stands. Luckily, I did not directly spend any money on it since I checked it out of the public library.
As a Christian, I began to think if this was the type of literature that I want to be filling my mind up with. I began to ask the question – what redeeming value do any of these stories have? Do I want to read about divorces and one night stands? And of course the final question that I needed to ask – Is it a book that I would want to share with Jesus Christ? The answer is no.
So I was in one of my favorite stores – Walmart and I purchased the book titled “My Sister’s Keeper” by Jodi Piccoult. Now I know this has been made into a movie and many people will be going to see in on the big screen instead of reading the actual book. But it is not a movie that my husband will go to. I asked my daughter too and she did not want to see it either. I thought about my other girl friends but they were all busy. As many people already know, this story is about a girl whose parents went to great length to have her so that her older sister would have a donor match for her medical problems. Hopefully, this will be a good book to read even though it will most likely be a tear jerker. I have read the first chapter and it looks promising. In this first chapter this statement really stood to me – “And if you parents have you for a reason, then that reason better exist. Because once it’s gone, so are you.” Well, I am anxious to start reading the next chapter. And if anyone has any suggestions on some good books to read, I would really like to hear about them.
Reflections 