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...
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...
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?
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Hey the library idea was mine!! LOL
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well it was!
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:
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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.
Looks like a good book to check out.
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