Was at the Felix Event Center (Azusa Pacific University) last Saturday for the David Crowder Band concert. Took the church kids. Hung out all day. A game of Letter Line Up by Cranium, 디비디비딥, 아이 앰 그라운드 자기 소개 하기..., P'soy (is that how it's spelled) and Jack In The Box. Yum.
In between I wandered into the on campus bookstore. Snagged a brand new hardback copy of ILLUMINATED, the debut novel from music producer Matt Bronleewe (Jars of Clay, Michael W. Smith, Rebecca St. James, Leeland) for only $5!!!
It was a great read.
One pet peeve: Christian publishers aren't shy about violence in the novels they publish. (Violence as in, serial killers cutting up bodies and putting them in trash bags.) Yet, they insist on NOT printing curse words. So Christian authors get around this by having their book read, "She hit him in the teeth and he swore spitting out a bloody tooth."
But for some reason, ILLUMINATED has one instance where the author resorts to a Ned Flanders-ism (the guy from The Simpsons that always says, "Okily dokily, neighborino!" Which was diagnosed by Dr. Hibert as being Flanders' way of cussing without really cussing.) Bronleewe has one of his characters saying, "sonofagun" instead of "sonofab*tch."
Weird.
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