Pick up the dang book already!

My reading rate has been dwindling.  I am really into my River in the Sky book.  I’m only on page 50 though.  I need to actually sit down and spend some time reading.  This last week, after working out, I’ve mostly been vegging on the couch, Pinteresting (ugh), and watching T.V. with my parents as they play solitaire on their iPads.  I need to spend less time browsing Pinterest and more time expanding my mind with books. 

So far, in A River in the Sky, the couple, archaeologists in the Middle East, are back at home (Britain) and twiddling their thumbs; all why their son is in Samaria at a dig.  The “country” has called on the couple to go abroad to Palestine and keep an eye on what the Germans are up to in the Ottoman Empire.  They are just about to set out and claim their son from Samaria to join them on their mission.  So again, I'm just getting to the good part.

Here is the best I can do for a map of the region that I am talking about.  You can see why the British were very eager to know what the Germans were up to in the Ottoman Empire at a time when the Ottoman Empire was on the verge of crumbling.  The British already had their interests set up in that region of the Middle East, and in Empire, more is always better.