As always, this booklist is not a list of every book I read this year. This is a collection of favorites. While I didn’t achieve my goal of reading a Puritan writer’s work in full this year as I have been in past years, I did meet many of my reading goals. I also encountered some new writers who have…
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A short-and-sweet summary of one of my favorite novels this year, All the Light We Cannot See, by Anthony Doerr. “…what pretensions humans have! Why bother to make music when the silence and Wind are so much larger? Why light lamps when the darkness will inevitably snuff them?” Young Werner wonders this while staring at the beautiful buildings in Vienna,…
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A mini review of The God of the Garden: Thoughts on Creation, Culture, and the Kingdom, a memoir by one of my favorite singer-songwriters, Andrew Peterson. The delight of a memoir is in making connection with one’s own life—the question, “What? You too?!” answered in the affirmative. I resonated with Peterson’s expression of his deep childhood loneliness caused, in part,…
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A short and sweet mini review of Leif Enger’s novel, Peace Like a River. “People fear miracles because they fear being changed…” —Enger, Peace Like a River A striking book about a family who faces the unthinkable when teenagers rush into their home bent on evil and end up with evil visited upon them. Enger’s effortless prose (with a bit…
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The short-and-sweet summary of C.S. Lewis’s little known Pilgrim’s Regress. The Pilgrim’s Regress is the sometimes very strange, sometimes startlingly true allegory that parallels Lewis’s own journey toward faith. Honestly, some of the book left me cold. It definitely doesn’t have the broad appeal of Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress. [See my note below for Lewis’s explanation.] As in much of C.S. Lewis’s…
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