High School Musical and Perfect Strangers

HighSchoolMusicalLast night Pam and I watched the Disney movie “High School Musical.” What a delight! We watched all of the special features on the DVD, then went back and watched for a second time three of the musical numbers. The story, the music, the dancing, the acting–it was a total package of goodness and fun. I’ll be recommending this movie far and wide.

Two weeks ago I read A Day with a Perfect Stranger, by David Gregory. I found this book at Meiers. This undersized 112-page hardback is actually a stand-alone sequel to Gregory’s book Dinner with a Perfect Stranger, which I now must, absolutely must, read. A Day is about a woman on a plane, going on a business trip, and the conversation she strikes up with a seatmate. Her husband claims that he had dinner with Jesus himself, and now he’s gotten all religious, and she doesn’t know what to make of it. She figures on getting a divorce. On the plane, in the terminal, and then on a second plane, this woman and “perfect” stranger engage in a fascinating discussion about religion. I tell you–this is a wonderful, engaging book. I finished it in one day. David Gregory is obviously an evangelical Christian. I’ll read Dinner with a Perfect Stranger, and then eagerly await any future Perfect Stranger books, because this story isn’t over.

What I’m reading now.

  • Novel Without a Name, by Duong Thu Huong, a tale of the Vietnam War told by a North Vietnamese soldier.
  • Searching for God Knows What, by Donald Miller, the author of the outstanding Blue Like Jazz (perhaps the best book I’ve read this year).
  • Adventures in Missing the Point, by Tony Campolo and Brian McLaren. My niece Paula highly recommends this book. Thus far I like Campolo’s chapters, not so much McLaren’s chapters.
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