Books just keep on comin'

Group reading projects take off,
at church, at home, at Valencia

It's a good thing I have a couple weeks off until the start of the fall semester -- I need time to catch up on all my reading!

* Our pastor at Grace Fellowship, Mike Adkins, challenged the congregation to spend a month getting closer to God by reading the "One Minute Bible: For Starters," over 30 days (Aug. 6 through Sept. 3). He plans to blog about the journey (click here), and I plan to participate in the discussion by commenting along the way.

Debbie will be joining me as we spend a little time each day detaching ourselves from the world and attaching ourselves to the Father.

* I threw out the idea about "The Big Read" (see entry below) to the librarians at Valencia's West campus, and it morphed into a full-blown community reading program. The school will purchase 1,000 copies of "The Kite Runner," by Khaled Hosseini, and many professors will be assigning the book to their students.

The object will be to read the book prior to the release of the movie Nov. 2. There will be campus discussion groups, special events, etc., and we're working on a private screening of the film for those who participate.

* My new nightstand companion is "Into The Wild," by Jon Krakauer. That movie opens Sept. 21, so I have to hustle. (It's only 203 pages, so it shouldn't be a problem!)