Just finished Adventures in Missing the Point by Brian McLaren and Tony Campolo.

Last week I am embarrassed to write I read three, yes three, mystery novels by Sidney Sheldon.

As I sit here I see across the table from me 30, I counted them, 'new' books from a local library sale.

I am such a patsy for cheap books. Found an original novel by Winston Churchill from the 30s, written probably while he should have been paying closer attention to world events. Jim is reading that one.

Among the other titles are Tom Sawyer, Look Homeward Angel, Sons and Lovers, The Count of Monte Cristo.

The find of the day! Ta-Da! A first edition of Lady's Chatterly's Lover (I think it's a first edition). For a dollar, hard back book price at the sale, I wanted to see what all the fuss had been about when it was publishing.

In high school a friend somehow got hold of the very popular book, Peyton Place, which had been banned from the high school library. That banning really made us curious. The 'juicy' portions were so often turned to that when you laid the book on its spine the pages fell open to the only parts we really were interested in reading.

What a long way we have come...and some of it downhill. And that's what I think about it.