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Mannnnn. Can someone recommend a novel with a happy ending? I can already tell this one will not be

Borrowing from a woman at church with whom I share a Russian Mennonite heritage!

Reading with church community group this year

Listening to the audiobook read by Ian McKellan

I'm not even finished with the first chapter and I can already tell this is already a book I'd recommend to any parent. It's so funny! Like laugh-out-loud funny. And incredibly insightful.

Continuing to work my way through Louise Erdrich's entire catalogue. What can I say, I love her

Stopping my read 20 pages in because the writing is just unbearably, laughably bad. How does this book have such rave reviews? The plot must be incredible. I'll just watch the movie when it comes out...

Abandoning this 20 pages in because the writing is just unbearably bad. I'll just wait for the inevitable movie to come out I guess

Very, very confused by this book and likely to be a DNF.

Reading this again, this time aloud to my newborn son, because I feel like indulging in some intense nostalgia and maybe crying a little bit.

Really enjoying this. Making me ponder the mysterious providence of God in the suffering of his saints, the importance of taking bold stances in defense of truth but doing so winsomely, and the value of faithful devotion to simple spiritual disciplines over many years.