a brief aside and a look ahead

First, I just noticed that 5 of my last 7 posts begin with "Well..." This is terrible; I firmly resolve to change my ways.

Second, I'm almost at the end of The Challenge of Jesus--not even 2 months later! I've decided to try to keep this up (despite the paucity of devoted fans) and a few days ago my next book arrived in the mail: The Third Testament, by Malcolm Muggeridge: 

My Uncle Jack suggested this one to me (he's pretty much Uncle Jimmy's polar opposite, so it should be interesting). The book comes from a series of lectures Muggeridge did for the BBC or something like that; it "explores the spiritual wanderings of Augustine, Blake, Pascal, Tolstoy, Bonhoeffer, Kierkegaard, and Dostoevsky" according to the website link above.