Boredom?

This last post ties a couple of past posts together. It involves my summer plans to combat boredom. A few weeks ago, the youth director at the church my roommate and I volunteer at announced that he and his wife were moving to Colorado. The man had a lot of books, so what does this mean for the library in his office? It means that those books are gonna have to find a new home.

My roommate and I went to the church on a Wednesday afternoon and spent a few hours with him packing the books he wanted to keep and claiming the ones that he didn’t. We made off like bandits. The director already decided on a few collections of books that we were going to get. My roommate got a collection of commentaries, and I got the “Great Books” collection. A treasure trove of books throughout the ages is now at my disposal, spanning from literary legends like Dante, Virgil, and Shakespeare to the scientific writings of Newton and Darwin.

I guess this means that I have no excuse when I’m bored over the summer. I said before in one of my earlier posts that I have a hard time committing to a long book, but I better get over it. The collection is massive and I’ve gotta get cracking. The youth director said that he finished all of them in ten years. He’s a busy guy, so I was impressed. I don’t think that I’ll read all of them, but there are some that I’m definitely going to dive into over the summer.

So far, my plan is to read all of Dante’s Divine Comedy before July. That’s all I got, but I think it’s a good place to start. I’ve only read The Inferno and it was for a class. I liked it a lot, but is was still work, so not as enjoyable. I have a friend who says that Purgatorio and Paradiso are both better, so let’s see if he’s right.

There’s only one issue with getting all these books. I have no idea how I’m going to fit them into my car…