I love summer! Team Dorius loves summer. We have so many plans! Dave is gobbling up books like crazy. I think he's read about 7 in the last couple weeks. I am in a close second with 2. Ha. Relating to that, let me give you my critique of Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol.
The Da Vinci Code was fast-paced and intriguing. The Lost Symbol was fast paced. It has some interesting twists, but (SPOILER ALERT!) I just found the whole thing redundant, over dramatic, and pointless. Exactly why is it necessary to keep different pieces of the puzzle separate, because they are "too powerful" when at the end they are simply a tool of piquing interest? It's full of "man-is God" doctrine and complicated clues loosely tied to a non-solution of metaphor. All in all, I kept waiting for it to hold my interest and attention the way The Da Vinci Code did, but we never reached that. Sorry, Mr. Brown, but the book stunk of desperation. It seemed so forced. You took a good shot, but you probably should've just quit while you were ahead.
In other news, we have a new little person in our family! Dave's sister had a little boy on May 4th. His name is Trenton. He was born with a little cleft palate, so when we went to visit him he was in the infant ICU (NICU), simply because he needed a little feeding tube, because he had to be taught to eat. He was carried full term, so he is normal sized. Next to all the other NICU babies he's a giant. It broke my heart a little to see these tiny things. Trenton's roommate had the most adorable hiccups, followed by an alarming (to me) attempt to rip out his feeding tube. Mommy and baby should be coming home today.
Seeing all those teenies reminds how far I still am from being ready to have my own. I think there's still a lot Dave and I need to do first. Not in the have a career, buy a house, get a nice car sense, more in the emotional/spiritual sense. I know that nothing quite prepares you for being a parent, but I would like to do the best I can and skip any regrets. I will NOT let my child read The Lost Symbol. What a waste of time.
No comments:
Post a Comment