The Song and the Flame

From my reading journal, some thoughts on (the first third of) Allyson Szabo’s Longing For Wisdom: The Message of the Maxims:
Longing For Wisdom

I feel kinda bad for not being better pleased with it. I don’t think it’s at all RevAllyson’s fault as an author; I think that possibly I ignored or did not pick up on clues about the way the book would go that were perfectly well available to me. I want to stress again that I don’t think it’s a bad book, it’s just not what I’m looking for right now. I would certainly recommend it to someone looking for a devotional (which, if I’d been paying attention, is kind of Bibliotheca Alexandrina’s gig; there’s one of those clues).

In other news, this quick-look not-quite-review (I refuse to review a book properly when I’ve not finished it) is the closest I’ve come to saying anything direct about my religion on the two blogs that I consider more-public space — that is, the space my extended family might reasonably stumble upon by following links from various profiles. So I’m a little nervous there that someone will read between the lines and realize what’s going on, and it’ll be a Big Thing. Except, you know, with my family I’m betting it would never actually wind up being a topic of discussion. Gotta love Midwestern American German Lutheran manners; you don’t discuss religion in polite company.