Back Online!

Our internet is finally back up at home. Living abroad and not speaking enough of the language, especially technical words and phrases, makes it hard to call tech support when your internet goes down! It is back up though, and (((fingers crossed))) that it doesn't happen again!

I'm still reading Full of Grace, but I also picked up another book at the library yesterday and started reading it this morning. So #21 is Daniel Alarcon's Lost City Radio, set amidst a civil war in South America.

With the holidays quickly approaching, I am trying to get some reading in before things get really busy. My inlaws will be here to visit in less than two weeks, and they will be here through the end of the year. I'd really like to finish twenty-five books by the end of 2007. We shall see...

This is what Amazon has to say about the two books I am currently reading:

Full of Grace: Women and the Abundant Life - Godly womanhood and femininity are the focal points in this book by Benkovic, founder and director of a Catholic communications ministry called Living His Life Abundantly. Using Mary, the mother of Jesus, as her prime example, Benkovic shows how Mary's faithful example of obedience provides a model for the spiritual lives of women today.

Lost City Radio - Set in a fictional South American nation where guerrillas have long clashed with the government follows a trio of characters upended by civil strife. Norma, whose husband, Rey, disappeared 10 years ago after the end of a civil war, hosts popular radio show Lost City Radio, which reconnects callers with their missing loved ones. So when an 11-year-old orphan, Victor, shows up at the radio station with a list of his distant village's "lost people," the station plans a special show dedicated to his case and cranks up its promotional machine. Norma, meanwhile, notices a name on the list that's an alias her husband used to use, prompting her to resume her quest to find him. She and Victor travel to Victor's home village...