I got this fair-condition softcover from a local Savers thrift shop, for yet another release copy of this book. [I first read the book thanks to a BookCrossing copy, back in 2002!]

The book wasn't quite what I expected - although I don't know exactly what I *did* expect - but I loved it! Sweet, funny, crude, touching - wildly slapstick in places and poignant in others, with a more sympathetic view of Jesus than I've seen in many a year (and from many a church)... I enjoyed it so much [including laughing out loud and scaring the cats - I learned early not to read this while drinking anything lest I spew mouthfuls of coffee or beer all over the landscape] that I've purchased a hard-cover copy for my permanent collection (plus a couple more hardcovers as presents, plus several more release copies over the years!).

"He was a pretty normal kid, for the most part. There was the trick he did with the lizards, and once we found a dead meadowlark and he brought it back to life, and there was the time, when we were eight, when he healed his brother Judah's fractured skull after a game of 'stone the adulteress' got out of hand. (Judah could never get the hang of being an adulteress. He'd stand there stiff as Lot's wife. You can't do that. An adulteress has to be wily and nimble-footed.) The miracles Joshua performed were small and quiet, as miracles tend to be, once you get used to them."

[There's a TV Tropes page for this book as well, very entertaining - but beware of spoilers if you haven't read the book yet!]

I left this book in the Little Free Library; hope someone enjoys it!

[See other recent releases in NH here.]

*** Released for the 2018 Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes release challenge, for the embedded "os" in the title. ***

*** Released for the 2018 Wine+Food Release Challenge. ***