Let's Start at the Very beginning...

Well here goes! I have never written more than a few one liner Facebook status updates to be published on the interwebs so this is, for me, a first.

The point of this enterprise is to essentially keep me reading. Supposedly there are people all over the globe who could access this blog and I don't want to let them down by never posting. These proverbial followers shall guilt me into completing the book list that I've been assembling for the past 21 years (Ok I didn't know how to read when I was born but I'm all about hyperbole). Now for the report on the first book I finished this summer:

Handling Sin by Michael Malone
Novel
This was my second reading of this book and it was even more entertaining than my first. I was recommending this one before I'd read it simply because my parents adored it so much. I have many memories of hearing my dad's giggle and my mom's guffaw from their bedroom downstairs on lazy mornings or from the inside the camper on one of our many camping trips. My mom received Handling Sin as a gift from a friend just before my grandpa's funeral "for when you want to laugh." She started into it on the plane ride home and attests that she was rolling in the aisle with laughter.
Handling Sin is a farcical comedy about a southerner racing towards the "American Dream" and his riotous family, orchestrated by his vulgar father, tripping him up. Malone weaves the narrative with comedic grace, keeping the story captivating and light-hearted, while addressing many of the deep-rooted issues in American society. Without assaulting the reader or presenting an argument, Malone deals with racism, sexism, death, life, belief and faith in God, heresy and blasphemy, marriage and infidelity. In short, he displays human nature without filter. The social commentary rings of Dickens with its comic relief and blunt honesty. I pass this onto you, proverbial follower, for when you need a laugh.