My Book Report is 'Bout

The afterlife used to really fascinate me. Not now, now I just want to hurry up my life and get off this earth. But back when I was in my early to mid twenties, I would gobble up books on the afterlife like Jeff gobbled up books about creation. I would read authors like Sylvia Brown. I don’t know what fascinated me that much, but it was just a phase. I was glad I was reading though. Now I couldn’t touch those books. I’d be so upset that I couldn’t be amongst the people in the afterlife, that instead I had to read about it. Sylvia is still turning out books; I saw two of her books at the library. One was titled, “The Mystical Life of Jesus.” I don’t know if I would’ve gone for that when I was younger. The books I was reading were small paperbacks, under 200 pages. Now Sylvia and others write these thick hard covers. I really wish Jeff were alive so he could continue to read. I guess he was just making his brain sharper. I try to find books to read that interest me, but I have no success. When I was younger, I read Mr. Dahmer’s book, A Father’s Story, and Valley of the Dolls. I thought I only liked nonfiction, but Valley of the Dolls wasn’t. Later on I would read Memoirs of a Geisha, which I really liked. I saw another Geisha book at Barnes and Noble, another old woman telling her story. I picked it up but didn’t like the beginning. The beginning has to really capture me; otherwise I’ll put it back. The last book I read. The Day the Voices Stopped, was a really good book. But Ken Steele had help in bringing his story to life. The only thing I didn’t like was he had to explain every little detail that the reader otherwise could’ve figured out for himself. Like, towards the end he had to explain what kind of a program Soul Train was. I think everybody knows about Soul Train. What, he thought most of his readers would be white and wouldn’t know? Even Caucasians know about Soul Train, the real, up to the minute, in the know ones. I think he perceived his reading audience to be dumb people that needed to be schooled on every thing he talked about. I mean, I was reading it and on several occasions was like, why did he have to write in this manner? Or was it the person helping him that encouraged him to do all of that. I don’t know. Bit I’m still looking for my next read, actively searching sometimes, when I have the money.