A few of the books that have gotten us HERE

Enclosed in this first post to our BOOK BLOG are only a couple of my favorite books of the past which have directed us to this place in our three score and ten (we are hoping more for twenty or thirty actually). Mona will keep you abreast of her own interests and I mine so you may discern how different our reading choices are, and therefore, perhaps, what is making either of us tick.  And if you figure that out, would you tell our kids?  They've never figured it out!

First, and more than foremost, is the Holy Bible.  God's very word in both it's Christian and Hebrew Testament. Yes, I've read books that keep me up all night in more suspense.  But I have never done more or better reading in drama, war, love, poetry and understanding of life and relationship than this amazing revelation of God's will for all of His children.  Thank You Jesus!

My earliest recollection of great reading comes from Mark Twain.  I must have read Tom Sawyer over 20 times in my life.  And Treasure Island, Ivanhoe, the short Sci-Fi's of Asimov and the epic drama of Ben Hur by Wallace soon followed. Jules Verne and the Hardy Boys were both on my bedroom shelves.

Sure, I loved Mad magazine and countless comic books too, but I always came back to classics of fiction and non-fiction.  Then I met Ian Fleming, known by all his fans through his lead character's introduction, "I'm Bond. James Bond."

Fast forward to today.  Not only have Mona and I read a ton of books in our 60 plus years (she actually several tons) we find as we prepare to journey into our own Terra Incognito (undiscovered country) we have been preparing all along through the books we have read to do so ready and willing for the adventure to come.

So each of us shall occasionally be recording some thoughts on a book we are, or have, especially enjoyed on the journey here.  Our travels we'll post in our main blog, but here, just rambles on what we read.  Enjoy!

-Ken & Mona