Hiding in the Backwaters Just one more blog on the net.

Oops.

Okay, so I haven't exactly been following the pattern I tried to establish where I would post a little blurb about each book I was reading as I finished it. I've finished both Krondor: The Assassins and Krondor: Tear of the Gods with narry a word about either. Indeed, much as a "direct to DVD" movie, Krondor: Tear of the Gods never made an appearance in the currently reading list. I suppose what it boils down to is blogging is work, work I enjoy, but work nonetheless. I haven't had a lot of time or energy for "frivolous work" (read-work I enjoy) lately so I go straight to veg mode, which often means picking up a good book to get lost in. I find Raymond Feist's books easy to get lost in, and that's a good thing in a fantasy book.

For someone who recently said to a friend, "I hate religion, and I mean that in the nicest way," I find myself wondering why I'm reading this book at all. I truly have no use for religion, Christian, Unitarian, Pagan or otherwise. And yet it continues to fascinate me. Maybe I keep hoping that there is something out there that will speak to me, or, more likely, I'm still trying to come to grips with a force that was a major part of my life for much longer than not. I've had Mere Christianity sitting on my shelves for a while now. I'm not entirely unfamiliar with C.S. Lewis' work. I read the Narinia books a couple of times as a teenager and have read a couple of other of his works including The Screwtape Letters and Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold. I've heard assorted quotes of Mr. Lewis on the subject of Christianity over the years and have generally found them thoughtful, compassionate and sane. I was curious to see what his book has to say.

Here is where I attempt to set up a new pattern. Rather than waiting until the end of each book, I'm going to start making comments as I feel necessary. There is already much I could have written, and likely won't remember about The Mythic Past. Thoughts have similarly come and gone while reading A Clinicians Guide to Substance Abuse. However, having blathered on for a while now and having not really said much of anything, I'm going to stop now and go to bed before I fall asleep in my chair, and save a couple of observations I have about what I've read thus far for another time.