Musing Mondays (Jan.17)

This week’s musing asks…

Do you prefer deep, intellectual, “meaty” books… or light, “fluffy” books? Why? Give us an example of your preferred type of book.

Most of the time, I think I prefer books that are somewhere in between. I don’t like my books too fluffy — I really don’t care for “chick lit” and the like. But, I don’t like them too intellectual or “meaty”, either, as then they just go right over my head!

For example, I read a book, last year, called “On Guard” by William Lane Craig. It’s a book on Apologetics, so I knew it would be a heavy read. But, little did I know that it would be so heavy! LOL. It really, honestly made my brain hurt, and I had to keep stopping and setting the book aside for a while, as I just couldn’t take any more! LOL.

But, then there are books like “Lost Christianities” by Bart D. Ehrman. This one was about the history of the Bible, and how the books that it contains came to be included, and why certain books were left out. I normally hate history, but this book was really interesting, and written in a way that it kept my attention.

For an example of what I do like, there’s “Deep in the Valley” by Robyn Carr… a little on the lighter side, but still with enough to it that I didn’t find it entirely fluffy; or “Everything’s Coming Up Josey” by Susan May Warren (still light, but not fluffy); or “Losing the Moon” by Patti Callahan Henry (somewhere in the middle); or “Mindless Eating” by Brian Wansink (getting meatier); or “Reading Lolita in Tehran” by Azar Nafisi (definitely more on the “meaty” side, but not so much that I disliked the book).

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