Faith Done Well

The Serpent King was one of those rare books that does faith really, really well.  And even more well because there were SO many opportunities to turn this book into an anti-faith book.  Dill being the son of a preacher who handled snakes before he ended up in prison for child porn and corruption of minors.  But this book...wow.
I can just imagine Jesus reading this book and thinking, "Man, that was really, really well done.  Thank you, good and faithful servant, Jeff Zentner.  I learned a lot about snake handling when it comes to churches, too!  How interesting!

The Wordy Hipster

Sarah Vowell is older than I am.  Not by much, but since she is older than I am, and I am no spring chicken, I am confused as to why Ms. Vowell acts like she is still young enough to be a hipster. Very sad.
There were some interesting parts to this book, but it was sort of weird.  I just wasn't sure what it was trying to accomplish. I'm an average person.  Not too smart.  Not too intellectually challenged.  I went to decent schools, but no place to write home about, you know?  Most of the information in this book wasn't anything new to me, so I can't imagine this was a history book.
You know, I really don't know what else to say about this.   The Wordy Shipmates was way too wordy.