Owlowiscious Girls

Good LORD!  I can not believe I am getting sucked into politics.  Of all the things I usually pride myself in it is that I don't mess with politics.  I pretty much shut my eyes, put my fingers in my ears, and hum loudly whenever I hear either Republican, Democrat, bi-partisan, GOP, etc... I can't believe I am even starting off this post this way.  But America- the whole thing, the whole news and court hearings- ALL of it- it is a big circus.  It is a car wreak I can't turn my eye away from.  It is a reality show with characters saying and doing the strangest things that all feels like attention seeking.  I am not taking sides (at least NOT on this platform), but all of me aches with sadness and my head hurts with anger.  So all the sane part of me is ready to escape into the writing and reading and put politics aside. Here is me stuffing all that in a bag and setting in on fire so that I concentrate on my true loves- reading and writing.  I have been EXTREMELY busy

I can not tell you how excited I was when I learned about The Great American Read around 4 or 5 months ago.  So on a whim I decided to spend those next 100 days-ish taking a picture with each book, reading as many of the books as I could (even though I knew over the summer I couldn't read very many), but to try to get a general idea of each book and try writing a post about each one especially the books I love and the books I have yet to be familiar with.  One of the biggest reasons I was and still am excited about this is I have wanted to work on completing a reading list for a long time but could not narrow down a list.  Most of the list I had come across were not very diverse.  Now this list is far from "perfect" but it is fairly eclectic and much broader then say a "classics list". So the project started off fairly strong but of course there were a few bumps- unexpected, unplanned trips with no Internet, birthday parties I had work around, and visitors. 

This is the last one and it is a bit of a cheat- BUT I am 70% sure I have read this book.  On the other hand I remember next to nothing about it so I guess I better put it on the reread list.  This Present Darkness by Frank E. Peretti is a book I was HOPING to find in my church's library.  They didn't have it, but they did have the second book in the two part story Piercing the Darkness .  The reason I think I read this book was because shortly after my first year in college I was on a Peretti kick.  My mom recommended them.  I do remember reading The Visitation and The Oath but again I don't remember the plots.  They have a very 1980s vibe because I remember growing up during the time when spiritual warfare was big thing within the church and my sphere/community.  I was indoctrinated with Chick Tract publications and if you don't know what that is you don't really need to know because I would not recommend them- here is a video just in case you are extra curio

The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan is the first book in the fantasy series The Wheel of Time.  The series has 14 books.  You could have found that out by googling it but I need to keep it here for me and for this project.  It is a fantasy- imagine more Lord of the Rings and Game of Thrones .   Everyone knows about the fantasy genre.  Unlike the other two fantasy book series I mentioned this one has yet to be made into a movie or mini series.  But look what I came across..... Well this video is over a year old now and there is no release date to be seen so I wouldn't hold my breathe, but I do enjoy fantasy in visual form better than the written form because my imagination is a little on the weak side.  While I won't judge it right away it is not likely I will get very excited about this particular book/series but I have been surprised before.  I have a feeling my husband has read some of the books in the middle of the series and didn't particularly care for them.