Review: Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

Let me make things simple. If you love C.S. Lewis—specifically, if you love the Narnia books—I think you will very much like Susanna Clarke’s novel Piranesi. If you need a break from our dreary-yet-furious present and want to think about things that are true, honourable, just, pure, lovely, commendable and excellent (c.f. Phil 4:8) then this is the book for you. If you need a break from our dreary-yet-furious present … then this is the book for you. Piranesi is a difficult book to describe, however. The name originally comes from Giovanni Battista Piranesi, the Renaissance printmaker famed for his fantastical depictions...

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My Year in Books – Bill Salier

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The Fabric of Faithfulness: Weaving Together Belief and Behavior & Visions of Vocation: Common Grace for the Common Good, Stephen Garber Probably the most annoyingly written but most stimulating of the books I have read this year. Garber’s interest is in thinking about discipleship over the long haul, especially for young adults. He explores a simple formula: worldview + mentor + shaping community as he writes about spiritual formation, vocation. I find myself still thinking through several concepts he introduces and discusses at length in these books: taking responsibility for knowledge; how to know the world and love it, rather than...

My Year in Books – Bill Salier

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My Year in Books (and Culture) – Andrew Prideaux

Andrew Prideaux

Prophetic from the Center—The Gospel of Jesus Christ in 1Corinthians 15:1-19, D.A. Carson A very short book (54pp) in which every word counts! This book goes straight to the top of my reading list for mentees and ministry apprentices. 1Corinthians15:1-19 is a significant text for a number of reasons and gives us access to perhaps the earliest summary of the Christian gospel in the New Testament. Carson addresses the temptation that all Christians, individually and corporately face: to move the gospel of Christ crucified and risen for the forgiveness of sins out of the center—invariably replacing it with a new one:...

My Year in Books (and Culture) – Andrew Prideaux

Andrew Prideaux

My Year in Books – Alistair Bain

Alistair Bain

Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman This was a set text for my daughter’s year 10 English class and I decided to read it with her. It’s the story of Eleanor Oliphant, a woman in her late 20’s who is a socially awkward, friendless, borderline alcoholic, and who lives on her own. She has endured a terribly traumatic childhood at the hands of her abusive mother, who she continues to speak with every week. And, even though she believes she is totally fine, she is far from it. But then a work colleague, Raymond, begins to show her...

My Year in Books – Alistair Bain

Alistair Bain

My Year in Books – Andrew Moody

Andrew Moody

The Storm, Frederick Buechner Frederick Buechner’s The Storm tells the tale of an ageing writer whose past and present failures come together under the gracious providence of a hidden God who works through nature, coincidence and even the machinations of troublemakers. Like many broadly protestant writers, Buechner doesn’t really manage to get past common grace, but this doesn’t stop him producing a deep and moving depiction of human life in magnificent prose. I was pleased to see Russell Moore commending Buechner over at TGC US a few weeks back. Captivated by Christ. Seeing Jesus clearly in the book of Colossians, Richard Chin There...