I recently had a friend accuse me of “judging a book by its cover” and I would like to explain what is wrong with this cliche. First: It is obvious that the only way to accurately judge a book is by reading it. HOWEVER, since there are exactly 42.7 gazillion books in the known universe, and since I can not read them all or even read a significant portion of them, I must somehow choose which of those books to read. I have several tools I use to make those choices: I do in fact use a book’s cover as […]
Books About Books
Because i won’t be teaching on the Epistles of John this Sunday due to Mother’s Day, i want to post this for all my bibliophile friends. I love books. It’s an irrational thing. I enjoy reading them, but i actually LOVE just having them. I love seeing them lined up on my bookshelves. I dream about having a library room with wall to wall books. The thing is, i have more books than i am likely to ever be able to read, and still, i continue to buy them and put them on my bookshelves. I often justify this in […]