I am currently reading...what?

Good luck Jason, I remember having to do stuff like that, I had an 300 plus page of state laws I had to know, besides operating manuals of my machinery, and pass my fire codes and know my first aid safety also. then they made me go through an couple of weeks training of being an nurse's aide, after I'd already had 6 months of Red Cross training daily when I was in high school. This was just to be an Laundry Supervisor...not to mention one year's on-the-job experince.  But then I also took college classes in Supervisory training and Small business Adminstration also.,,and one class of phsyciatry skills.I went to an seminar for women not to long ago also in dealing with women in the business world. But don't tell my son, he thinks I've spent my life baking cookies, wiping noses and yelling at him perhaps.

Ruth, aren't his books wonderful? I am so amazed by his mind and how he reasoned on things. An amazing and refreshingly humble man. 

If you ever have a chance I would highly recommend "God in the Dock" a collection of essays by C.S. Lewis. Also, a book by his step son, Douglas Gresham, called "Jack's Life: The Life Story of C.S. Lewis" was a very insightful look into the man himself.

I hope you enjoy your class. I wish I were there to take it with you!

I guess I'll have to go out and pick me up some books for after Christmas, but I still have... "The Pale horseman" to read by Bernard Cromwelll yet. That kind of finishes his Saxon Novels.I do have one more on the templar knights and also wouldn' t mind reading Dan Brown's newest book either. Most informative bit of reading was what thoth gave for an link the other day...about the 33 rd degree globally in connection with the templar knight's and the ancient hsitoryFree masonary surrounding the Pheonix, Arizonia area...I get anomolous calls on my telephone with that name, no one ever on the other end of it though...no message either. For the most part the link also describes an "star gate" that deals with Iraq also.

Friends. I just finished a beautiful book ( The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society) By Mary Ann Shaffer And Annie Barrows. A poignant  story.

I'm close to finishing Dean Koontz's "Breathless" and am just getting started on Kate Fox's "Watching the English: the Hidden Rules of English Behaviour."

I have yet to read any C.S. Lewis, but I think that may be my 2010 literary goal.

Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver.

Rita...I'm going to have to find your book!! I googled it and it looks very interesting!!

Krissy i am going to check my Library for your book. Another great book by C.S. Lewis is . The Four loves.

Just got "Rule Number Four" along with another Oliver Cussler thriller..."Inca Gold", I'm reading it now....I like looking at his antique car and trailer on the back of the book jacket...awesome...his hobby.  I just finsihed off Dan Brown's "lost Symbols' he released last October and another one called "Serpent of the Crown" by Elizabeth Peters..she was given Grand Master by the Mystery writers of America in 1998. Cussler has his "Dirk Pitt"... an kind of James Bond..Indiana Jones type action to everyhing..works for NUMA...and "Rule number Four" says these fellas are transcribing an old text that was found, but suddenly seem to be having themselves "taken over" mentally by what it says...along with an murder of an colleague apparentently. Usually in February I get one "Romance" type novel to read just for Valentine's Day. Some of them have been pretty zippy to read also.....Esp the New England Puritan lady that is headed for London to meet her hsuband, an wealthy merchant, when her ship gets highjacked by pirates...and she's hauled off to this guy's harem. He is as ruthless as she is an "Puritan" but they manage through time to mellow out considerably.  He learns "raping" an disposing of the bodies is not the way to go to be "respected" as an man... even if you can get away with it.., and she learns that there's an whole other world out there besides an "second hand life" as an "wife" where you don't kiss your husband unless he's in the dark and everything is fairly emotionless in the ordeal of "love making"(you still call him Mr. surname whatever" ...and your not an "harlot" to wear bright colors other then drab gray and brown. They have quite an whirlwind of an time at things...No..he never really conquorers her...he ends up dying, and she is saved by an man that slowly comes to her aide, as he is an European "black market" dealer himself, but quite weathly in his own right also...but she never goes back to her family to be subdued as an "goodly wife" of the era of her time...she threw in the towel within the first few days of returning....all it took was the society ladies treating her as if she were "tainted" for having been held in slave bondage more or less against her will previously...but it didnt' help either when her father told her to "Shut up more or less, she was an "woman" and not to "think" for herself...to" speak" when asked and "hush up" otherwise. Her bravery in the past and being "bold" is what kept her alive through all her trials and tribulations.  Guess I will have to see what thsi years brings along that line as of yet.  

He's great, Barbara.  The Screwtape Letters are excellent also - very convicting.