2012 is going to be a busy, crazy, and eventful year. However one thing it will not be is boring! I am excited to complete my second year of home-school (a much, much, smoother year than the first, i might add!). My father has helped me to purchase a car....the only problem is...i have no money! Ha ha! So i will be starting my first job this summer to pay for my share (add another check to the to-do list!). My pastor and some other men from my church (including myself) have been working to remodel an old church to worship in, and to use as a place to house unstable people and show them the light of the Gospel! I am EXTREMELY excited about the fact that it is scheduled to be completed in March of this year! I cannot wait to witness what God has in store for us! Another thing that i am planning to do this year (Lord willing) is to begin my first year of Bible school! Although I am a born-again Christian, i have a fairly limited knowledge of the Bible. I am really looking forward to the class and i am anxious to see what God will do through it in my life! I have no idea what God has in store for me, but i am itching to find out! :)
On a less important note, i am currently in the middle of reading Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Doyle wrote many short stories with Sherlock Holmes as the main character. The book that i have includes all 23 of his original stories in chronological order so that it reads out like a novel. I enjoy this book so much! The classic humor that it contains has actually made me begin to laugh out loud in a silent room (does not usually happen with me)! I can almost never guess the outcome of the next case until i have read it through to the end (as i can with other detective novels that do not have such a strange twist in the conclusion).
I have just completed reading the first book in John Flanagan's new series, Brotherband. For those of you who have never heard of this author and his work, you should know that he wrote an 11-book series called Rangers Apprentice that i found immensely entertaining and well written. Brotherband is a series similar to Rangers Apprentice, in that it is set in the same world. I loved the setting and plot of Ranger's Apprentice. However, after about book 10, the characters where beginning to wear a bit thin. With his writing style and a new set of characters, i have once again been pulled headlong in the whirling, twisting, clashing world of John Flanagan's imagination! I am impatiently waiting for book 2 to come out in May!
I know that this post has deviated away from my usual topics but i just felt like spilling my current life to the online community. :)
I am glad to be back on the "blogger-sphere" as my friend Rachel calls it, and i wish you all well in 2012! :)-AaronU
Hey, I just read your post about John Flanagan. Although I know that it is an old post, I just thought I would agree with you on his literature. I have never read an of his books, but I have listened to his audio versions played on Book Radio, Chanel 80 on SiriusXm radio. Perhaps you've heard of it? Anyway, sadly I was not able to hear all of the recordings, since they only play thirty minute segments per day. But what I did hear I enjoyed immensely! Reading what you wrote,tho, I'm might just go to my local library and check out one or two of his books.Something I hardley do any more! Anyway, great blog site, dude. Looking forward to your next post.
ReplyDeleteYes, he is quite an author! I highly recomend the "Rangers Apprentice" series if you are thinking of reading some of his work.
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