Abigail Chen > Recent Status Updates

don’t know how to give a star rating here when i didn’t feel compelled by the narrative arch -had to put it down for a bit as immaturity is tolerable in selected doses- but piercing, innovative and intellectually curious (thank you, american ballet theater, for advertising onegin this summer enough to prime & pique interest). elif batuman wields a sharp pen, in the best way.

the best kind of subway book - praise Jesus

as the author wrote himself in the ps - i also have never found a parallel among biographies for having “explored the influences ON, more than the influence OF, our subject, Timothy Keller.”

tremendously rich- to an unexpectedly academic research tune. a continued grace to be in a legacy cloud of saints - encouraged and inspired by that which shines Jesus across time, space, and lives.

tears, already

subway book. excuse for self-help books that say multiple times they aren’t self-help books. day 1 of my sabbatical, relevant.

oh no it’s already visceral

*should i read a chapter..or actually sleep*