Father Joe by Tony Hendra

I finished this month's book club book Father Joe by Tony Hendra last night, just in time for tonight's book club. It was good, better than I expected. I found myself more interested though, in the story of Father Joe than I was in the story of Tony Hendra. I've never heard of him, either of them, actually, so I didn't really have any preconceived notions of who Tony Hendra was or what he was like. It was really interesting at the end to find out that Father Joe has had such an influence on so many people's lives. I would've liked to have heard more about that. It was also interesting to read about life at Quarr and I found myself wanting to learn more about how monks live. That's often how I find things to read - I take one aspect of a book I'm reading and want to learn as much as I can about it.

Other than Father Joe I've read a few trashy novels. Nothing I'd really like to report on! I'm betting that we'll pick something on the lighter side at book club tonight. Our last two books have been nonfiction and not exactly happy reading.

In other news, Ryan's really starting to enjoy reading, or at least rapidly flipping the pages of his books. Every morning after I feed him, he picks out a few books and brings them to me and he sits on my lap while I read to him. Some of his current favorites are: I Love you as Much, Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?, Fuzzy, Fuzzy, Fuzzy, Binky, and Blankie. So sweet!