Mavis Moon Mavis Moon

Holy Saturday

A new-to-me view of the problem of evil in the world, and the “already but not yet” time we live in.

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We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler

What a good book! As the author writes, it begins in the middle. This is a novel, written as if it were a memoir. Rosemary, the “memoirist” and narrator, begins the story of herself, her brother, sister, mother, and father in 1996, when “ten years had passed since I’d last seen my brother, seventeen since my sister disappeared.”

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Forgive Everyone Everything by Gregory Boyle

I couldn’t find a review of this book to link to that said something I always tell people when I speak of Father Greg Boyle—he is funny! Forgive Everyone Everything is a collection of 52 of Father Greg’s stories from his various books, compiled into a weekly devotional. I like it so much, I am planning to buy a copy for each of my kids. The stories are short, easy to read, touching, often funny, and give you pause.

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