Matt's Blog

Just finished a couple books. The first one Messy Spirituality by Mike Yaconelli. This is a good book, a great book for anyone stuggling with trying to meet some self-set standard of Christian goodness. Yaconelli bascially tells us that God loves us as the imperfect people we are. Most of the book is inspirational stories illustrating Yaconelli's points. But not inspirational like Chicken Soup for the Sappy Soul. These are stories of real people dealing with real life in a real way. If I had found this book 10 years ago I'd give it a great. But I've already worked though much of what this book deals with myself. I'm definately keeping an eye out for someone to pass this one along too. When it comes out in paper back it may become my standard gift to high school graduates.





Also finished Jeff Smith's Bone - Out of Boneville. I had recently come across a couple reviews of this series of comic books and thought they looked kind of cool. I was a little disapointed. I'm not sure what I expected. The art is cool. Smith takes Bone, who looks like a cross between Donald Duck and Casper, and puts him in a land of dragons and other monsters. The story is interesting, but moves a bit slowly. Bone has been run out of Boneville and that's how he finds himself lost in this strange world with two of his cousins. The three of them soon get seperated. At the end of the book he's been taken in by a young hottie who he has a crush on, and he's been reunited with this cousins. But the writing doesn't do much for me. It's just not very interesting. This book was the first in a series. I got it with my teacher book order bonus points. I think scholastic is planning on putting out the entire series of books. Because of the good reviews, I may give the next one a chance if I can get it free.