Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Books

So, I've had some frustrations on what to read. I read a couple of reviews of some books in a magazine that I get and thought the books sounded good. Well, one of them was horrible, the other two were okay. Then, I read Heidi. It's an old book, but it was really good. Some of the things that I've noticed about older classics is that 1) they are clean and 2) many of them often have God as a central part of the characters lives. The characters pray and read their Bibles. Have we become a society that is so afraid of offending someone or not selling books that we leave that out? Are the only books with moral characters labeled as "Christian Fiction" thereby dissuading many who might have benefited from the story from ever reading it? Now, I know that not everyone lives the way I do or believes the way I do, and that's fine, but really, do we need so much sex in what we read? I have found a few authors who's books are clean, but they have only written so many books and I've read so many that it feels like I'm running out of books. Does anyone have any books that they really love that are clean? I mean, I like a good romance as well as anyone, but some things should be left alone.

2 comments:

Rose said...

If you havn't already go for the Anne of green gables/avonlee/etc. series. It's a little on the young reader side, but it's a favorite of mine. Good books, and good movies hehe

Idaho Sutters said...

Shannon Hale books. Not her adult book though-but her youth books. Jane Eyre.