“try to be clearer that you were not being critical of my minister.”
Clearer than, “Your minister may be a great scholar, for all I know…”? That’s what I wrote, you know. How much clearer than that does one need to be?
“I have over 200 books on my iPad and have read every one of them and have read most multiple times.”
In the early 1970s, before my memory failed, I counted up the *absolute minimum* number of books I had read. As of that date, it was in excess of 3,000. Books. I didn’t include magazines or newspapers. And I never stopped reading. I consider myself to be moderately well read.
If I counted the books I have read since junior high school, it would probably be in the thousands. When I was in junior -high school, I was a student librarian. That meant we had first choices on new books. I took full advantage of that perp. My daughter and 3 of her cousins got together in DC a few years ago. They were all talking about bad things their parents did. The only thing they could come up with about me was that I always had a book in my hands. I do not consider that a bad thing. I do not understand why people do not like to read. When I was young, it was The Bobbsey Twins, Honey Bunch, Nancy Drew, Tom Swift, Hardy Boys, Trixie Belden, Chip Hilton, Cherry Ames, Grace Livingston Hill, etc. I loved to read biographies and they had an orange book cover. I even loved Beowulf, etc. Nowadays, they include William W. Johnstone, J.A. Johnstone, Lee Child, Archer Mayor, Dale Evans, and many more. Reading was the main reason I was so concerned about my recent eye surgery. Many prayers were answered when it was successful. I do enjoy my iPad so I can adjust print size.