Time Lottery

I have a couple of things reading related to report. First of all, my new Kobo eReader arrived yesterday. Ahhhh.... so comforting to have an eReader again. I plugged it in to get it charged up and anxiously awaited to load some new books to read. Once it was fully charged, I started it up and noticed that it did not have the pre-loaded classics that it advertised. Grrr.... so disappointing. That was one of the reasons I chose the WiFi model instead of the touch model. I sent the company an email, it will be interesting to see how they respond. Regardless, I am pretty happy with my choice as I did not want to spend the extra money on a fancier model and then have to upgrade all my accessories as well. For now, it will work and perhaps I will upgrade again in the future and this model will get handed down to someone else.

While waiting for my reader to arrive, I scanned my bookshelves for things I had picked up at the second hand bookstore. The Time Lottery was the big winner. I was surprised because as I started reading it, I realized this was a Christian book. I normally do not read this genre as I'm not what I would call a practicing Christian. I will save my thoughts on religion for a whole nother post! I almost stopped reading it a couple of times, and had my eReader arrived sooner, I might have given up before finishing. Some might say that it was FATE that I read it! It was ok. The story is about a lottery that allowed three people to win a trip to their past to change something they wished they had done differently. Of course, all three met God and that helped them become better versions of themselves. I did not get turned off the story as I normally would when God is used as the solution to life's problems, mainly because of how the story was written. The author did a nice job of using God and Jesus' message to help the characters make different choices. Instead of just having them accept Jesus in their life and magically things are better. That makes a lot more sense to me. Overall, I can't say it was a great book, but it was thought provoking and if I take anything away from it, it's that I want to investigate more into what was Jesus' message - not whether or not he was born of a virgin, not whether or not he actually rose, not whether or not I'm going to heaven when I die. But what exactly did He advocate? What were his words and advice for how to live and have a stronger connection with God? That is what interests me.