Blog number four!

So, as we all know, this past Tuesday was the meeting in the restaurant to discuss literature for an hour. I'm not sure I have actually ever fully discussed literature for that length of time. It wasn't too hard, and I think we kept the conversation alive well enough. We all brought pretty different stuff, which I thought was cool. That gave us a variety of things to talk about. I do have to say though, we might have been lost if there had not been a guideline to help us along. It was fun though, definitely a nice break away from the actual classroom.

Here soon, I believe we are going to be reading Grief Observed by C.S. Lewis. I read most of that book recently, actually. I'm not sure how much I should say about it, for fear of giving it away to those who have not read it. But I will say that it did make me think. He expressed a few interesting ways of looking at God, that I guess he came up with because of his grief. Grief can do crazy things to a person. I am not sure I would have ever pictured God the way Lewis portrayed Him at one point. Maybe, I would have if I ever was grieved as much as Lewis was. Another thing I found interesting about the book is that he wasn't even married to her for very long. In fact, if I recall correctly, he hadn't even known her for a long period of time. Compared to people who are married their whole lives to someone, they were married for a very small season of his life.

I am interested to read it again, and see what all I missed the first go around. And actually, I didn't even get to finish it the first time I read it, so this time I will be able to read the whole thing. And with it being such a small book, I'll even be able to read it quickly and possibly in one sitting.. That's good to me.

So that's all I have to say about literature for the moment. Maybe after this Thursday's class, I'll have more ammunition :)