(I’m putting the P.S.’s at the beginning because they’re important)
P.S. Final thought. I’m thinking about doing some contest to give away some of the nearly new books I have. Would you be interested in something like that?

P.P.S It’s my brother’s birthday. He’s the coolest freaking kid I’ve ever met. Here’s proof.

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Okay, now to your regularly scheduled post…

I didn’t actually I decided to finish the book, Hokey Pokey: Curious People Finding What Life Is All about, by Matthew Turner. It was one of the books I recently received as an Ooze Select Blogger, and it was the shortest so I thought I’d pick it up first. I put it down after the first couple chapters, but then just decided to plow through.

I don’t usually like to give negative or critical critiques of other people’s writings, since I recently wrote a book myself and know I’d be bother by a negative review. However, Matthew Turner has written a number of successful books and has been the editor for CCM magazine as well, so I think he’s probably credible enough that my little review won’t bother him, if he even notices.

I didn’t like this book at all, at least the part I read. Not only did the direction it was going seem quite random, but I felt like I couldn’t really understand his points either. I think I would describe the book as being sort of ‘philosophical’ in nature, not really talking about anything specific and practical but just about the way we ‘are.’

The one story I did like, where the title of the book is derived from, is about a substitute teacher he had at his private Christian elementary school, who taught them the hokey pokey, which they head never learned because dancing was from the Devil.

Anyways, I thought I’d get my review out early so that other Bloggers who are writing reviews can feel okay about giving their honest own two cents, and to see if anyone else whose read this book felt the same way as me.