Dropping In Reading - Religion

 Today, I decided to look at two small books on my Bible shelf: the Jefferson Bible and Lincoln's Devotional.

 The Bible was actually a reprint of Jefferson's attempt to make a "Bible" from Jesus's words in the gospels. He began it in 1804 but didn't complete it until 1819.

Lincoln's little book was a devotional from a sect in England in 1852, with a short saying for each day of the year.

Interestingly, just as I was sitting down before lunch, and after I had looked at the two books above, I glanced at one of my Shakespeare shelves. I was going to read a novel from the local library, "If We Were Villians" by M.L. Rio, and it involved college students and Shakespeare and murder, etc. I noticed on the shelf a book by Joseph Pearce titled "The Quest for Shakespeare". When I pulled it off the shelf, expecting it to be about who Shakespeare really was, I was surprised to find it was an argument for showing that he was a Catholic in a very un-Catholic period of time in England! 

I am adding this to my Reading List - along with the two small presidential books. 

Varia 4

 Yes, it's been a while since my last post, so I thought I'd try to log in a few things that I may or may not expound upon later. I'm calling this #4 since I went back and checked to find I had used the varia word in the title three previous times. (Before I did that, I was sure I had done it many more times!)

So here goes:

• I am joining two more real, meeting-in-person book clubs in addition to my monthly Zoom mystery club, I've been a member of since COVID.
• My 81st birthday passed with nothing really notable.
• Drop-In Reading - a new thing I am starting. More later.
• I recently had a scratched cornea. Kinda limited my reading. Almost completely better. Will talk about it later.

Speak of the devil - "Later."  ;)