Not going to lie, I totally started reading this book because with a name like A Forbidden Rumspringa, I thought it’d be hilariously over the top and I figured I’d be able to laugh about it with bookish friends later. Andrews managed to take a silly sounding premise and turn it into a well-written romance that takes its characters and their problems seriously. The story takes place in a small Amish community in northern Minnesota called Zebulon. Apparently there’s a lot of variation within Amish […]
A Modern Pagan Folk Story
A recent article in The Atlantic argues that British children’s stories are better than American ones, because the British often tap into fantasy and paganism in a way that really captures a child’s imagination. The heroes of these stories are not setting out to learn a moral, but are “trickster[s] who triumph through wit and skill.” Well in the case, Good Omens is the story of that British child growing up and viewing religion and fantasy with common sense and a deep understanding of humanity. And that child […]
Cannonballing quadruply with this slightly blasphemous, yet still wonderful book.
So this review is not going to be great, because it’s crunch time and I’m trying to get my last review of the year in before we get shut out of the site and/or I have to get back to work. But oh man, such a good book to make my first quadruple Cannonball with! THIS BOOK SPEAKS TO ME. I’ve actually owned a hard copy for years and years and never bothered to pick it up, and that is so frustrating. I could have […]
How to find the glory of the cosmos in your TPS reports.
I earned my undergraduate degree from a liberal arts school that was Christian. I liked it. It encouraged students to view the world and act in a holistic way. How does faith influence your business ethics? How does faith influence your understanding of the importance of the environment? How does a person’s faith influence political action? We wrestled with a lot of questions like that. One of my favorite courses was called Spiritual Pilgrims. The course encouraged a lot of practices and traditions that at […]
The easy confidence with which I know another man’s religion is folly teaches me to suspect that mine own is also.
Quite a long time ago, I read The Year of Living Biblically by A.J. Jacobs, where the author, a liberal New Yorker, spends a year of his life attempting to literally follow every command in the Bible. I remember enjoying it, so when I saw The Unlikely Disciple (2009) by Kevin Roose, it sounded both interesting and familiar. It turns out, it was familiar for a good reason. Kevin Roose was A.J. Jacobs’s intern, and was the student Jacobs took with him when he visited Jerry Falwell’s […]
Are you happy, Malin? I finally read this! (Also, thank you for my book.)
This book was soooooo not what I was expecting it to be. For some reason, I had it in my head that this was some sort of paranormal romance? And that it was sort of trashy? I have no idea where I got those ideas from, because they couldn’t be further from the truth. This book is epic fantasy, well-written, has intricate plotting, seriously intense worldbuilding . . . and it’s not your mom and pop’s epic fantasy, either. It’s sexy. Like, SEXY sexy. Sex […]
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