Just a note to recommend the Odd Hours. This new novel by Dean Koontz, my favorite working author of fiction. In fact, I'm recommending the series since the last book in the installment doesn't stand all that well on its own in my opinion. It's a good, fast read. However, it will surely satisfy those of us who've been following Odd Thomas in the last three stories.
This is a supernatural tale fit for adults and older teens. All the Odd Thomas books are whimsically told tales that combine ghost story and epic battle between good and evil.
New readers on my blog may have expect me to list the latest book on church administration, ministry, or theology. That's because you don't know me that well yet. If I take book in hand to read other than the Bible, it will generally fall into one of two categories, pure fiction or reference text.
I get my devotions and insights from blogs these days. I rarely volunteer to read non-fiction. I'm occasionally forced to read bound and published non-fiction. I typically resent that intrusion into the escape books normally provide. This is a personal idiosyncracy that has little to commend itself.
If I had to explain why I avoid non-fiction, there is more to note than just the escape fiction provides. There is also irony.
I find it irnoic that when I read fiction I feel like I am getting to know the author. When I read non-fiction I generally feel no connection at all to the author. Instead, the author of non-fiction (biographies included) seem to me constantly concerned with proving their point by hiding their true self from the reader. Again, this is just my idiosyncracy and I'm sure if I didn't have this problem I'd be highly effective at influencing people while living my best life now.
