A PAGE A DAY: May 2009

Saturday 30 May 2009

Book Reading for the month of June

Hello fellow bookworms,

Welcome to Summer! If you reside in England, you would agree with me that the weather has been absolutely beautiful. I am thankful to God for the ability to enjoy such splendid sunshine.

In a weather such as this, a simple pleasure of mine is going to the park with a couple of books in hand and getting stuck in. How about you?

Hopefully, the books we will be consuming this month, will enrich your time in the sun and also provoking questions about the meanings and pleasures of life and love.

We will be consuming two books for the month of June.

The first book is called: Purpose Driven Life, written by Rick Warren

A Brief Synopsis:
The spiritual premise in The Purpose-Driven Life is that there are no accidents---God planned everything and everyone. Therefore, every human has a divine purpose, according to God's master plan. Like a twist on John F. Kennedy's famous inaugural address, this book could be summed up like this: "So my fellow Christians, ask not what God can do for your life plan, ask what your life can do for God's plan." Those who are looking for advice on finding one's calling through career choice, creative expression, or any form of self-discovery should go elsewhere. This is not about self-exploration; it is about purposeful devotion to a Christian God. The book is set up to be a 40-day immersion plan, recognizing that the Bible favors the number 40 as a "spiritually significant time.

The second book is quite a good one and it is called:

Tropical Fish: Tales From Entebbe and it is written by Doreen Baingana

Brief Synopsis:
Ugandan-born Baingana chronicles in her debut collection of linked stories the lives of three sisters growing up in Entebbe after the fall of Idi Amin. Though most of the stories take place in Africa, "Lost in Los Angeles" follows the principal character, Christine Mugisha, as she travels to California, where she grapples with a different breed of racism than she faces in her own country. The title story, "Tropical Fish," follows Christine's apathetic affair with an older, affluent white man who woos her with the many perks of his money. "A Thank-You Note" is a letter from Christine's older sister, Rosa, to an ex-lover that angrily and poignantly recounts her battle with AIDS. Baingana's characters are confined by a passivity and powerlessness (Christine likens herself to a plastic doll) rarely broken, though the collection ends on a hopeful note.

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