BuddyRey
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I've always liked a good story, but only in the last few years have I really begun to look forward to and enjoy the act of reading a good book. Ironically, the beginning of my love for books has coincided in near perfect chronology to my leaving the federally controlled private school system, which almost seems to deliberately beat a love of reading OUT of American children with tedious memorization exercises and busywork, banal chapter outlines, and lifeless, irrelevant book choices, but I digress.
All this week, I've been reading a wonderful young adults' fantasy-adventure novel called Redwall, about a religious order of woodland creatures who have to stave off the invasion of a brutal horde of brigand rats. It's actually a lot more complex and well-written than my description can portray, with many interesting characters and boundlessly inventive and thrilling plot twists at every turn.
Having neared the last leg of this book today, I've already gotten a few pages in to my next pleasure read, a romantic swashbuckling epic about a French lawyer's thirst for revenge against a brutal monarch, called Scaramouche. Oddly enough, though I didn't buy the book to for a political story, I'm noticing a lot of overt libertarian and anti-authoritarian themes in it, possibly owing to the novel's setting at the dawn of the French Revolution.
So what kinds of recreational (or educational) literature has my fellow Paulites' hearts going pitter-patter this week?
All this week, I've been reading a wonderful young adults' fantasy-adventure novel called Redwall, about a religious order of woodland creatures who have to stave off the invasion of a brutal horde of brigand rats. It's actually a lot more complex and well-written than my description can portray, with many interesting characters and boundlessly inventive and thrilling plot twists at every turn.
Having neared the last leg of this book today, I've already gotten a few pages in to my next pleasure read, a romantic swashbuckling epic about a French lawyer's thirst for revenge against a brutal monarch, called Scaramouche. Oddly enough, though I didn't buy the book to for a political story, I'm noticing a lot of overt libertarian and anti-authoritarian themes in it, possibly owing to the novel's setting at the dawn of the French Revolution.
So what kinds of recreational (or educational) literature has my fellow Paulites' hearts going pitter-patter this week?
I am actually looking for a volunteer "development" director to work with us as we get started? Any interest? 
