Janet’s Book Nook

I have been trying to finish up the set of books by Anne Rice from the Christ the Lord series. I read the first one and reviewed it a while back. I have to say that reading that book took alot out of me. It was emotional and dry and serious material. I enjoyed the book and got alot out of it but it really drained me mentally. I have been having the second in the series titled The Road to Cana since I bought the first book. I have just been trying to read some other books in between the two. I started the second one today and I have to say that I find myself in the same frame of mind I was in for the first. I am finding fault with situations and I don’t even know yet where she is taking it. At the very beginning Jesus is talking about a girl of fourteen that lives across from his family. He talks about this girl in a way that makes it sound almost lustful. Now I have to qualify my comments by saying I haven’t gotten very far into the start of the book so I could be thinking WAY off base about where Anne Rice is trying to take this one. I am going to withhold my judgments until I get further in to the book. Last time I had to eat my words because she did address my concerns at some point in the book. So this time I will try not to judge until I have the whole work in my brain. I  will let you know how it goes. Funny thing is that I think I get more emotional riled up reading these books than I do when I read my Bible and I read that OFTEN.