That reader is Home by Marilynne Robinson. This may not be very exciting for you, but it is for me. I discovered Robinson in 2004, when she wrote her Pulitzer Prize winning novel Gilead, which quickly became one of my favorite works of fiction ever written.
I quickly sought out all that Robinson had written, only to discover that there wasn't much. Besides one other brilliant novel (Housekeeping), Robinson has also written a few collections of essays, also brilliant.
Still, Housekeeping was written in 1980, and I figured I'd be reading Robinson's next novel around the time I was sending Harry to college.
All that to say...I'm excited.
Question for today: what's a book you discovered that changed your life?
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Bringing Heaven Down to Earth. It was a major theological shift for me. No more escape hatch theology.
The second was Home From Nowhere by James Howard Kunstler. A non-christian (I assume) seeing how our culture has been degraded by a loss of values due to the suburb, the automobile, and energy dependance. Good book. Changed everything for me.
Other better books, these two changed my life.
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