Exceedingly Mundane

I finished another library book last night, “The Preservationist” by David Maine. It’s the fictionalized, sometimes irreverent, account of Noah. It covers fictional accounts the whole Biblical story of Noah and the ark – from his learning of the need to build the ark, his wife and sons and their wives, how they go about collecting the animals, how the people heckle him, what it’s like on the ark during the flood, the conditions, animals crammed in, what it’s like for months afterward, waiting to see land, how they get off and find land and figure out how to start from scratch when there’s not a soul left alive, except for them. It covers alot of things I really never thought about concerning a story I’ve heard of all my life. It’s not quite as good as another fictional based Biblical story I’ve read recently (“The Red Tent” by Anita Diamant), but it was still good and enlightening in its own way. I’m not overly fond of the way the author covered the dialogue and some of the actual dialogue itself (lots of references to “rutting” in this book!). But, with both books, I tend to forget that these characters were in the Old Testament, before the birth of Christ, in a time very unknown to me, and had to deal with hardships that I can’t begin to understand, as well as the fact that idol worship and mention of other gods, were commonplace. Anyway, I digress – I enjoyed it, and even though it wasn’t as good as Red Tent (few books are stacking up to that one for me lately), I’m glad I read it. 😀 If you’ve read any of my book reviews either here or at Hambones.org, you’ll find that I like almost every book I read, for one varied reason or another. I just like to read! To be entertained, to be enlightened, to make me think, or not, to simply read something light and nonsensical, just to read 😀 For a million different reasons, I just plain love books. So many books, so little time!

For the record, that makes #37 so far this year, with a total of 13,104 pages read. Up next is a book I’ve heard about for some time, but I haven’t gotten around to (or any other books by this author, for that matter). 🙂 It’s “The Secret Life of Bees” by Sue Monk Kidd. I hope it’s good!