"The act of reading is a partnership. The author builds a house, but the reader makes it home." ~from Between the Lines I thoroughly enjoyed reading Between the Lines and Off the Page by Jodi Piccoult and her daughter Samantha Van Leer. I was completely swept up by the story and felt like I jumped right into the book and lived the adventure with them. They are not "Christian" books but the spiritual undertones are rich and surprising. What captivated me most was the idea of authorship. In this world, an author wrote the story, but once it has been read it cannot be changed. The author is not all powerful because it is the reader who brings the imagined world to life. It made me think of how God created the world and invited mankind to work in the garden and name the animals. (The difference being that God is all powerful.) On another level, the characters in the story all recognize, simply because they exist, that there must be an...
"Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there someday." ~A.A. Milne, Winnie the Pooh