However, I will not use this forum to extol the virtues of digital anything. I’ve lost blog posts, word processed documents and digital photos almost at the same rate as journals, printed papers/letters, and printed photos.

I’m just sad about this journal because it was the first one that I’d planned on looking back at in the future to get a hindsight view of my experience with the detail of my written notes added.

Perhaps that was just too much planning on my part. I’m okay with that but I miss my little journal. It was cute. Here’s what the cover looked like.

It made me happy and had a great binding. Sigh. I’ll miss you little birchy. I still have hope to find you in a random place where I will greet you with a laugh and some ink on your pages to celebrate.

There was a section in the middle, near the beginning of the end, where I got irritated with the main character but the end wrapped it all up for me. I think I was “supposed” to get irritated with him. Anyone who’s interested in alternative views on traditional religions will appreciate this novel – anyone who likes to dissect Christianity and it’s rules will appreciate it even more.

This is a pretty perfect book and I’m super glad that my cosmic friend Obvious told me about it, and encouraged me to read it by telling me he dug it. It’s probably one of the first books I’ve read where the end left me feeling satisfied, and not longing for more time with my new friends.

You can probably find it in any library, if you don’t want to part with your hard earned sheckles. It’s a long book but I read it quick – it was all I wanted to do in my down time.