Diamonds in the Rough

Tuesday, January 1, 2008

The Robe

Rather than stay up late last night to greet the new year, I stayed up reading the final pages of the book that had been at the top of the list on my sidebar, The Robe, by Lloyd Douglas. Thanks, Suzyscribbles, for the review! The Robe is the fictional story of Legate Marcellus Gallus, the Roman soldier who crucified the Lord Jesus Christ. Because of my ignorance of Roman customs and vocabulary, I had a bit of trouble getting into it at the start . But it wasn't long before I was neglecting my family and my household duties, my eyes glued to the pages of this thick book. (Maybe it was thick because I had the large print version, lol!)

Reading the Bible has wrecked me for fiction that is supposed to be about Bible events and people -- I have a perfect standard against which to compare the book I always have to make myself remember that the work of fiction is not necessarily a historical or doctrinal statement! The Robe wasn't the Bible, but it's a good book. Now I am off to Google Emperor Caligula...

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Tuesday, January 1, 2008

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Posted by cherryblossom at 8:28 PM

I see you have Becoming Behavior on your list! Do you like it? I loved it :D Maybe we should start a ladies book store? Or library?

Julia

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Posted by cherryblossom at 8:44 PM

Since you like the idea I should let you know I ran my elementary school's library :) Hehe. I felt real special typing on the computer and helping people search for books :) amazing what 10 year old's think being 'grown up' is to them :D

Julia

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Posted by heartathome at 9:47 PM

Hope you had a wonderful Christmas! Please feel free to edit my blog posting for your newsletter in whatever manner you deem necessary. It would be fun to have a copy; thanks for the offer. I will message you my address so as to keep it from going public. Thank you!

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Wednesday, January 2, 2008

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Posted by Anonymous at 7:04 AM

Hey the library idea was mine!! LOL

Kristy
well it was!

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Thursday, January 3, 2008

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Posted by HeartnSoul at 9:14 AM

Sounds like a good book :) Reminds me of one I found called Marcus- a novel of the youngest apostle by Laurene Chinn. Here's an about:
http://www.antiqbook.com/boox/bkmav/4648.shtml

If you want to borrow it I'll send it to you, it's been to Canada and back lol. Again it's adding non-biblical "story" too but very interesting history.

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Posted by Keri at 11:35 AM

Looks like a good book to check out.

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