Reason #5 why I love my iphone...

Yep this is really in my top 5 reasons why I love my iphone.

I really like to read books that I'm not smart enough to read.

(I attribute this to my piano teacher Mrs. Amermann who made me play songs that were too advanced for me. But once I meddled through it I found such a great sense of accomplishment I felt the need to add this within other parts of my life.)

People are also generally surprised at my inarticulacy, bad spelling and lack of grammar in proportion for my love of reading.

What this all really led to was a very heavy purse which always had the book I was currently reading, and a pocket dictionary and a pocket thesaurus (which I asked for on my birthday during high school).
Ah, but now I have an iphone! My favorite application is dictionary.com! Here is a list of the words that I looked up just during the last 100 pages of Brave New World by Aldous Huxley.

pneumatic
indecorous
sepulchral
bumptious
dolichocephalic
neurasthenia
coquettish

Such a beautiful language. Now I even know how to pronounce the words and their many forms because my dictionary.com app says the words out loud for me.

Ahh technology.(which is a very ironic statement to write after reading Brave New World.)

A little library culture

So I saw this picture while I was on the St. Louis County Library's website, here.

Best picture of April 2008 for sure. I wish I could have been there.

I was on the St. Louis County Library's website looking up books on graffiti. I want to read some biographies on graffiti artists. I think that sounds interesting. It's not like I have two books that are waiting to be read on my desk or anything.

So encase you were wondering here is what I'm reading now.


I'm not even on page 100 so don't ask what I think about it quite yet. I will tell you it is about Bruce, who grew up Jewish but is not practicing anymore goes to the middle east to explore where the first five books, the books of Torah took place. It is really interesting reading it from a somewhat neutral point of view. Here is a great excerpt from what I read today...(Bruce Feiler is interviewing an archaeologist who he met while in Beersheba, Eliezer Oren. He has a Ph. D. and attended Harvard, NYU, and Penn.)
"I'm going through a certain transformation," Eliezer said. "When I was younger, I was in my rebellious phase. In my lectures, I kept saying that since we don't have evidence, these stories did not take place. That goes for patriarchs, the Exodus. The older I get, perhaps I get more stupid. But I feel that my archaeological experience only enhances my understanding that even if I cannot relate a certain event, or personality, in the Bible with a specific archaeological stratum, it doesn't matter. At the end of the day, the question is this: Is the Bible unusual for its time and place? And the answer is: It's not. It's part of it. Dating is becoming secondary in my opinion. When I'm digging here, I'm digging with Abraham."
"So what effect has that had on your faith?" I asked.
"Those are different camps, " he said. "But I can tell you this: today I treat the Bible with much more respect."
"Can you give it a grade, in terms of archaeological accuracy?"
For the first time all morning he grinned. "A plus plus."

How is that for food for thought.

This is the second book I have in line to read....

I know I have very eclectic taste and like to read a wide variety of things.

While on the library website I was looking at books like this...

I don't know if any of these are good, or what they are really about, I'm just exploring for now.