Do you follow the rules?

What is it that you call someone who gives a person a gift and then takes it as their own? Does reading someone else's book count? Is this living biblically? Hmmm...

Lisa gave Dwayne The Year of Living Biblically - One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible by A.J. Jacobs for Christmas. She had heard it was a hilarious book and thought it would be a nice break from all of those technical books Dwayne had been reading for his job. Well, the book has been sitting on the nightstand for over three months - only getting moved for dusting or perhaps to allow space for a glass of water at bedtime.

Lisa guiltily reached over and pulled the book off of Dwayne's nightstand this past week while he was in Qatar and WOW...she lost the guilt quickly. (Was that coveting?) This is a true story of how the author is trying to live by all of the rules laid out in the Bible. Right now he is mostly focusing on the Old Testament rules but the New Testament ones are working their way in also and there are obviously some conflicts going on. Read this book...read this book. Lisa is about 1/4 of the way through it and hates to put it down. It is going everywhere with her...she is mildly obsessed with it. Ha ha! The author was raised Jewish but has mostly led a secular/agnostic life. It is very interesting where this quest is taking him and it also makes you think about all those little rules that you ignore out of convenience or are simply ignorant of.

The book was actually ranked on Amazon's "best" list in September 2007. Regardless of whether you are Jewish, Christian, Muslim, whatever...you will think this is funny!!! Now, it's time to sew on some tassels to Dwayne's clothing...