For some reason I can't do embedded links anymore...so forgive the long links!

Here is a great reading challenge for spring!

http://callapidderdays.blogspot.com/2008/03/spring-reading-thing-2008-ready-set-go.html

Jodi Picoult's latest book, Change of Heart, is just wonderful. It's a study of capital punishment, religion, belief, miracles, and the Gospel.

I can't even tell you about how wonderful this book is, because to do so would be to cheapen it. I'd also end up breaking my cardinal rule, which is: Do not spoil the end of a novel for someone else.

All I can say is, I am glad I read it. I think you should, too.

I've begun the chunky read "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver. It's an interesting, intriguing, and multilayered novel set in the Congo.

I will have to write more when I've gotten further along; suffice it to say, it's going to be a while