The Exorcist

This is another one not on the inventory of books from our library to be read, but it caught my attention when EWTN aired an interview with the author after his death.  Blatty was an engaging talker.  I was drawn in even though I started out listening with almost zero interest in him or his books.  His conversation sounds like storytelling.  He explained that he never intended The Exorcist to be a scary book that he saw it more as a statement about faith.  I thought it would be a good piece of fiction which I don't read that often.  It was.

Uncle Tom's Cabin

This book was not, strictly speaking, on the inventory of books to be read although it was on the shelves.  Since it was a paperback copy purchased by my daughter I didn't include it in my library but rather in hers.  Still, it's a classic and at a certain point I felt compelled to take it on especially since my mother had been reading the book in the year before she died.

This is a truly remarkable book!  It was very readable, with a good story line, plenty of colorful characters and a lot of dialogue in dialect.  I never expected it to be easy reading but had anticipated more of a stern and preachy tract about the evils of slavery with a lot of dusty description and antiquated language.  It was instead, an exhortation to a Christian nation to think about the injustices of enslaving the African, the inconsistency of slavery with the Christian ethic.