Living Compassionately

January’s Selection – The Poisonwood Bible – pure poison, I completely and totally disliked this book.

February’s Selection – The Notebook – lovely romantic story, wonderfully written

March’s Selection – The Wedding – fantastic, I loved this one even more than The Notebook.  I’d love to see this as a movie, if they really stuck to the book’s storyline.

April’s Selection – church doctrine, and my stack of Real Simple magazines – it felt good to get these started and get the magazines out of my living space.

May’s Selection – The Ecology of Commerce - VERY long book, still reading, I hope to get it done and read a quick book before the end of June, so I’ll still be on track.  STILL READING, I’ve decided it will be a book I read for the rest of my life.  It will be a life goal to finish it.  Holy moly it’s long.  But I don’t allow myself to not finish books, it just may take me the rest of my life.

June’s Selection – “The Five People You Meet In Heaven” – Thank goodness for a fast and enjoyable read.  After last month’s selection, this is a breeze and I don’t want to put it down.  I’m not done yet, but I still plan to have it done by the end of June! 

Well thank goodness I got it done during June.  I thought the concept of this book was great.  I wasn’t as impressed as I’d expected.  I had to reread the Fourth and Fifth lessons to find them.  I probably was just too tired and didn’t catch on, but this may be a book I reread later in life to get more out of it.

July’s Selection – “Suzanne’s Diary for Nicholas” – I love to read fast-read books.  I devoured this and was done by July 7th.  I thought it was good, but wasn’t thrilled at the end.  I think I’ll reread some parts and it might be better.