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Just beautiful
The writing is everything I love. Beautiful sentences, interweaving knot of insights with surprising ways to construct memory and timelines. And portable.

Grand unified theories more often flatten history, philosophy and spirituality.

I’ve become more skeptical of them the older I get.

We need the questions that drove kingsnorth more than the answers.

A must read for homeschoolers

This dovetails beautifully with themes in my life right now - forgiveness, grief, atheism and women in faith.

I'm about 40% of the way through this.
Gosh it's preachy and needs more show don't tell, more research-based information. It's more like one of those pep talks from a friend who wants you to get through and it's just too easy to tune it out because it's sort of annoying.

Oh my
The insecurity that leads to constant envy in this book, about accomplishment, about writing, about ambition
Just wow

This!
I’ve been writing columns in this topic but this provides both the context, the research and the proposed solutions!

One of the fun discoveries? That this is Albert Raboteau's daughter. He converted to Orthodox Christianity later in his life.
Initially, I thought this would be one more "lament" piece - I use lament when sometimes writers strike me as complaining - but her writing has some lovely usefulness.

Her brain seems so familiar to mine
I mean I was scared of the damage my mental unhealth would do
And I do think my kids will be adjusting their entire lives, but also her ability to smell out the bs of thought-ending cliches and still work on an authentic faith in God encourages me

Then ending with St Isaac of Nineveh

So many lines! So good for inspiration

Never see myself finishing this

Not going to finish this

So great

Read this. It's up there with Men Explain Things To Me, Between the World and Me, We Wish To Inform You Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families, Born a Crime, Blood Brothers (by Fr. Elias Chacour), In The Time of the Butterflies, Poisonwood Bible, Lies My Teacher Told Me, The Handmaid's Tale, The Swallows of Kabul, The Stoning of Soroya M, Reading Lolita in Tehran, and others that have shifted my worldview.

Particularly intrigued with what inspired stories in this.