Is it real?

I read a little article a while back saying something about the reading experience being significantly different with a real book versus a tablet, and while I agree, for most of the penniless author-wanna-bes of the world, I think the ebook revolution surely beats the vanity presses any which way you look at it.  Mostly it has saved us all from becoming like an older gentleman I know, he's published a dozen books at his own expense and spends his life hawking them to unwary strangers (all the locals avert their eyes and speed walk in the other direction lest they be forced to spend another $20 to politely escape the situation!); sort of like when your niece is selling Girl Scout cookies except she's been doing it for 40 years.  But I've sometimes wondered if those books are 'real.'  If we suddenly entered a technological dark age, would there be anything left of our digital work?  But then the paper versions can be just as fickle, indeed, when the world burns, as it one day will regardless of your theology (on this the naturalist and the theologian agree) it will go up in smoke and all come to naught.  I guess there's only one Book worth considering as Real, one that will survive any impending apocalypse: Et verbum Dei manet in aeternum!

Small books, big ideas!

What are you reading this summer?  I just finished 'The Once and Future King,' and must now classify where it fits in my pantheon of favorite books.  It is one of those stories you can't just read once, indeed, you must peruse it again and again to even begin to understand it.  I guess it goes on the shelf next to 'The Man Who Was Thursday' and 'That Hideous Strength.'  Both books I'm still trying to wrap my mind around what they are trying to say.  Reading such books is a great way to keep your brain from getting rusty, but I'm not sure mine is ready for gymnastics quite yet.

Warning!

School starts again too soon, better get in a few more elective reading choices!

The weather outside is frightful...

...and a book is so delightful...you get the idea!

A Once and Future Classic?

I've seen the musical 'Camelot' and Disney's 'The Sword in the Stone' is my favorite of their older animated movies so when I ran across a mention of the source material (and how good it was) I finally took the plunge and ordered a copy of 'The Once and Future King.'  I've only read the first half so I shouldn't jump to conclusions, but the article I had read outlining someone's favorite books along with all the lovely reviews certainly got me a bit more excited than I am at present.  Maybe the last half will surprise me.  It isn't a bad book, not by any means, but for all of the hype I was expecting something a little different.  It is definitely worth a read but it likely won't make my personal top ten, which isn't quite fair as there are some classics in that list that have stood the test of centuries, perhaps I should add a section for 'modern favorites?'