The Introverted Detective

 Let's jump into it without further adieu. Let's talk about Telemachus and Nestor. Let's save time. Here's the video of the expert summarizing the Book/Chapter 3.  ODYSSEY BOOK 3 SUMMARY (Homer) Telemachus is going to talk to Nestor in Pylos at this point, with Athena (as Mentor's form) supporting him. I will review this in two ways. The first is a star rating (out of 5) of plot, and the other is the same star rating system for readability. Readability is essentially "how easy is it to figure out what is going on" and "did I understand this".  The Review for Plot Basically, this is a visit to see if Telemachus can get Nestor's take on what happened to his father. Nestor doesn't know. He says he can have a son accompany him to Sparta to see someone else who might know more. He also suggests the suitors might ransack Telemachus' home, so go see Menelaus and be quick to get home, lest your mother and your belongings be gone. That's t...

 I stumbled upon this book because of my home church. This book wasn't even on my radar until my peers picked it up. Let's talk about connecting our faith and sexuality, which is a concept I have not heard much about.  This book was a group read because of my home church. It is not the type of book I'm usually consuming. I read mostly fiction and some nonfiction on the side (more nowadays than I used to). The title alone had my attention. The concepts within the book deal with giving God our all and not just parts of us. It talks about sexuality as not an identity, but a part of us to surrender to God. Being God's children should be our identity core and part of our faith journey, according to this book. It has some guts as a whole, mostly because it's talking about stuff a lot of Christians aren't.  Why this book has guts This book has boldness that I don't usually see in Christian Self-Help (the only category I can think of for this book to fit in). It tal...

I haven't done this challenge in a while. It's definitely time. Today we read three books at random and decide whether or not they stay in my personal library.  The rules of this challenge are simple. I picked three random books from "the unread" tab of my book inventory (not including the series I collect). I read them or DNF them. I decide what to do with them at the end of the challenge. I chose three, a good number to handle for one blog. I can do up to five if I DNF two in a row (a rule I added this past year), but today I'm just doing three. That's about it for rules. I'm going to go one book at a time.  If you take on this challenge, it is a good rule of thumb to read ten percent or four to five chapters before making a decision. Unless, of course, you hate it already, then you know what to do. I recommend this challenge to book dragons like me. We hoard books, but don't always read them all. We need space constantly for books. This will help yo...