Funny, interesting, quirky novel about an artist, his friend and lover, and his life.

Schmatzy, but well-written, clever, and feel-good.

A book of letters from and to a woman of 87 years. I was surprised what a good story I found in the correspondence.

It’s a good one!

A well-written, easy-to-read book about different “lenses” (sets of assumptions) we use and can use to understand the Bible. A balm to the soul.

Funny, insightful, and fun to read.

When life feels dry.

Full of gems.

A lover of nature, in particular the forest, uses the forest floor, the understory of the forest, to reflect on her life and her relationship with Jesus.

More value and worth from NOT comprehending rather than figuring it out.

Great book by a great man.

Good story of growing up in Napa/the Bay Area with Korean-American immigrant parents.

Interesting to read about the life of a boy living on “the rez.” Touching, sad, funny, and hopeful.

A memoir of a family surrounded by and made up of famous people. Hilarious and poignant.

galloping hilarity, and heartbreak, too

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.”

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.

I cannot remember reading anything else set in the McCarthy era and it was intriguiging to see the effect of the Red Scare. I heard of it in history classes, but it made it more real to get to know people living in it and affected by it. As I think back on the book, I realize, too, that Quinn did a good job of making it feel true to the time.

Incredible story! Javier Zamora, nine years old, goes from El Salvador to the US. I loved this book!

In “The Tune of Things” in Harper Magazine, Christian Wiman says, “I can’t overstate how important a presence [Fanny Howe has] been in my life, though we’ve probably spent a total of fifty hours together.” He calls Indivisible her masterpiece.