I'm still in somewhat disbelief that I am approaching book #100 (I am at reading 97 now). When I realized that I was approaching this milestone, I tried to think of something special to do, like I had for book #52. After some thinking, I realized that I have been spending a lot of time reading other people's works, why couldn't I try to read my own. How better to do this then to write my own book. The problem was that I had few ideas and have no experience writing beyond this blog and school essays. Then I saw this ted talk (its 4 mins), and then that this was more than one guy that wrote a novel in a month, it is an entire organization! So in the month of February (and a little more) I am going to try to write a novel as my 100th book. But what to write it on? After much deliberation I finally came up with an idea for my book. I am going to write a novel cataloging our forefather Yaakov's life. The Biblical text leaves so much for interpretation and the Yaakov stories are ripe with interesting ideas that can be brought out. Yaakov can become alive and personable in a way that he is not usually seen. While I will be working with the pshat and probably some midrashim, I hope to broaden the discussion. This book in many ways is in the spirit of As a Driven Leaf. I hope to bring out modern issues in the novel, specifically Modern Orthodox ones. This is where you guys come in. While I know many of the issues that someone growing up MO goes through, I only have one perspective, and a somewhat bubbled one at that. Any added perspective on any issue that exists in the MO community would be welcome. Feel free to send messages through this, facebook me, email me at samlreinstein1@gmail.com, or call me. All insights would help me out significantly.
While i'm here I would also like to thank everyone that has supported me throughout this entire endeavor. Whether it be my family, friends who either comment about the project or have given me advice about how to do the blog, I really appreciate all the support. I hope to hear from people about this next project as well! Thanks everyone!
