As a kid I hated going to church. The last time I attended I had a major temper tantrum and my father had to literally scoop me up and carry me out of there, I believe is was around 5 or 6 and we never went back. All my life I have questioned religion and had given up on leading a life centered around the belief of a “higher power”. But a few years ago my sister turned me onto a book that got my curiosity aroused and I have started to read more about it and started questioning numerous people in my life that have a strong faith. A faith that I find that I am envious of and am wishing that I had such a strong faith in something that gives so many people such joy and hope.

I picked up several free books that are all Reader’s Digests they have become a very good source of reading lately, they are easily picked up for free or for next to nothing and they provide you with several stories in each edition that you get. I usually only see one or two of the stories that seem to interest me, but once I get to reading the first story, I usually keep on going to the next and at least give it a chance to see if I can deal with it or not, I can only remember one time putting the book down because I didn’t like a story in it.

Anyway the one I started this time has the following non fiction stories in it: They Long Gray Line, My Turn, A Place for Us and Funny Business, they all look interesting and this is one thick book that should keep my busy reading for a few weeks or so this time around.

My best friend and I went totally ga ga over the book, The Outsiders, by S.E. Hinton, way back in junior high school. We completely devoured that book in a matter of days, and were most pleased to find that in 8th grade English class that it was one of the required readings, which needed a book report done on completion. We knew we had it made it the shade for that one, and we did.

It was most unfortunate that when the movie came out that we were not happy with it one bit, the actors that they had picked for the parts were all wrong and they left out so very much that was awesome in the book, but we watched it anyway, for what it was worth.