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decent parenting? in MY coming-of-age fantasy novel???

if there's a trope I like better than "found family," it's "unbelievably weird family who genuinely care about and look after each other despite their issues"

I fear my spotify listening minutes will not survive the week

ok so first of all this book is low-key insane

such a terrifying depiction of emotional abuse. bring back real villains in kids books (and let them get their comeuppance in a dramatic and satisfying way)!

Yayyyyyy it's time for my yearly reread :))))))

I fear I listened to about 4 hours of this upon leaving work. I'm not sure if that says more about the book or my week.

"Spirit-led preaching is bad"
"You are at the mercy of the Holy Spirit in understanding the text"

which is it??

that is NOT how lectio divina works

low-key annoyed that we're using MONET AND RENOIR as analogies for bad preaching. because their painting "distorts what the eye sees" 😑

I fear I have a new hyperfixation. Or is it simply that I'm trying not to race through a different audiobook too quickly?

MAN WHO WAS THURSDAY REFERENCE

Andr*w T*te wishes he was this guy

for a story this sensational, I'm surprisingly bored. I think partly this is because the author is trying to do her due diligence regarding all the legal/financial stuff, and partly because there are so many names. so many names of the guy's girlfriends specifically. big yikes.

kinda crazy that people were building entire businesses on hypnosis in the 80s?? (nvm I have listened to 80s music, this is not surprising)

"When Adam saw woman for the first time, he saw the eschatological beauty of the telos of man and woman, the union of heaven and earth, the union of Christ with his bride, and the communion of saints." (119)

"Rejecting the feminine gift is actually a rejection of the authority of God... Giving is an act of authority. And in God's act of giving, the receiver is authorized to reciprocally give love." (121)

We all have our own ways of dealing with the end of the school year.

So far the best part is the clarification of historical context -- the way sex and class interacted; the actual power women did and didn't have in society; and especially the contemporary situations where women did have some kind of religious or spiritual authority. It's a helpful correction to our usual assumptions about ancient women.

deeply annoyed by the constant bickering of the MCs getting in the way of the far more interesting plot line of Lane and her roommates. this could be so good if it would just flesh out those characters and let us spend more time with them.

so far it has the most fascinating concepts... and the most annoying tropes. enemies to lovers and forbidden romance, of course with 0 reason for why the male lead takes complete leave of any common sense he might have possessed to literally stalk her.

did I mention he's also her TA? this is not manipulative or unbalanced at all.

oh gosh why does the creepy man of business sound EXACTLY like mrs. bennet?? "you must accept this invitation, you won't get anywhere without social engagements" 😭

I'm loving the clear, no-nonsense explanation of why *all* the macros (including carbs and fat) are essential for our health. Having grown up in the low-fat and then low-carb world of the 2000s, this is incredibly refreshing.

unfortunately, it does seem that holly black lived through the 2000s, and by that I mean she lived through twilight

so far this is both relatable and terrifying

"And once Copernican cosmology finally supplanted the Ptolemaic, Christians had little trouble adapting to that either."

Buddy, I've got some news for you about that one...

"As the glory of God tabernacles in the body of Jesus so it will tabernacle in the “body” of the renewed creation, and the glory of the Lord will cover the earth as the waters cover the sea."
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"Because when the human icon of God that represents the whole cosmos is rescued and completed, then that which it represents can itself be redeemed and reach its fulfillment."

Loving this so far. The symbols are not meant to be parsed out and reduced to their "literal" correspondence. They create an imaginative world which we inhabit and which changes the way we see our world.

Reading as a "self study" assignment for my class on Hebrews to Revelation. So far nothing especially new, although I'm enjoying the detailed look at the various ancient cosmologies.

This is such a perfect book for this moment. Not only is it set in the autumn; it's about people loving and fighting for each other in a world that seems to be falling apart.

Is this... perhaps... a romance that actually works? in a recent novel?? it's a rivals-to-lovers that isn't toxic?? I didn't actually think that was possible