Adjustments

There is a bit of an adjustment to December.  We will meet at my house on December 13th at 8pm.  This is an updated change from before.  There is a conflict on the regular night so Second Thursday it is.  We will share short Christmas Stories, so start getting those ready.  I love this one, it's a great night.

January will be The Time Keeper by Mitch Albom but I don't have a date for that yet.

Until then, of course, Happiest of Reading!

As a note on the side, I love Thanksgiving.  It is home, it is joyful, it is thankful, it is gratitude, it is reflection, it is blessed, it is peace to me.  So, this is just for Thanksgiving:

"Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving, and make a joyful noise unto him with psalms."

"That I may publish with the voice of thanksgiving, and tell of all thy wondrous works."

"Sing unto the Lord with thanksgiving; sing praise upon the harp unto our God."

"I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him with thanksgiving."

Animal

For November, Brenda picked Animal Farm.  It was a great read for this month and gave us somethings to think about.  I think the last time I picked it up was in 8th grade.  Nice for a refresher.  So it's about-get ready-animals.  Hope I didn't ruin it for you...The animals at Manor Farm get the bright idea that they are sick of humans and they can do the work on the farm themselves.  This partially comes from a dream one of the animals has at the beginning of the book and partially comes from a series of events that occurs after the dream.  After running off the humans, they change the name of the farm to Animal Farm and they set up a set of 7 commandments -the most important being 4 legs good 2 legs bad.  They work, they go on, but slowly the power of the animals shifts to a certain group of pigs and they become the most powerful pigs.  They start to control their food and change thinking and it goes from everyone being fair to the powerful pigs having all the control.  Powerful pigs is just fun to say.  Conveniently the commandments change and the powerful pigs insist this was the way it always has been.  In the end, just kidding.  I wont give it away.  I liked this book.  We had a great discussion on our own country and government and the world government and truths about current events.  Different animals in the book played certain roles.  The powerful pigs in charge.  The longing Molly a horse who wanted the old life, Boxer another horse who was a hard worker and just did what he was told.  Benjamin the donkey who has a long memory and sees how it really is, the sheep who have a short memory and are easily convinced that things were as they always had been.  I liked how the book showed different sides to take.  Made me think where am I at.  How involved I should be in my community and awareness of life around you is just flat out important. This was a great read because I feel it was very relevant considering we just had our Presidential Election a few days later.  I highly recommend picking it up and flipping through it.  Until then, Happy Reading.