Project Alphabet

Jacobs, A.J. - ‘The Year of Living Biblically’I’m not normally a fan of non-fiction books. They’re either too patronizing or too boring, which makes me unable to finish them. ‘The Year of Living Biblically’ though, was fantastic. My interest was kept (nearly) the whole time and it was really fast reading. I say that my interest was kept only nearly the whole time because there were a couple of chapters where the author seemed to be writing a research paper rather than the book he had set out to write and live for a year. For those of you who don’t know the premise of the book, it’s about a secular Jewish guy who decides to take the Bible as literally as possible and live according to the Bible’s literal laws for a full year. The first 8 months he dedicates to the Old Testament and the rest of the time he focuses on the New Testament. His first two months on the New Testament, though, he didn’t seem very connected. It seemed like he was just doing research for a final paper and not that he was actually trying to put the Bible into play in his own life. Thankfully, the last two chapters of the book he went back to the format of the first two chapters. Very interesting read overall. I give it a 9/10.

Jacobs, A.J. - ‘The Year of Living Biblically’

I’m not normally a fan of non-fiction books. They’re either too patronizing or too boring, which makes me unable to finish them. ‘The Year of Living Biblically’ though, was fantastic. My interest was kept (nearly) the whole time and it was really fast reading. I say that my interest was kept only nearly the whole time because there were a couple of chapters where the author seemed to be writing a research paper rather than the book he had set out to write and live for a year. For those of you who don’t know the premise of the book, it’s about a secular Jewish guy who decides to take the Bible as literally as possible and live according to the Bible’s literal laws for a full year. The first 8 months he dedicates to the Old Testament and the rest of the time he focuses on the New Testament. His first two months on the New Testament, though, he didn’t seem very connected. It seemed like he was just doing research for a final paper and not that he was actually trying to put the Bible into play in his own life. Thankfully, the last two chapters of the book he went back to the format of the first two chapters. Very interesting read overall. I give it a 9/10.

17 May 2009