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File under: books everyone should read; books that will break your heart and put it back together again; books that will linger with you long after finishing; books that make the world better; books that tell important stories; etc. I could rave about this one forever.

This book was WILD and I really enjoyed it (even though I had NO CLUE what I was getting into!) — think Gossip Girl meets How to Get Away with Murder with dashes of Gone Girl and Sherlock Holmes... If you like teenage dramas and thrillers and books that you’ll fly through on the edge of your seat, grab this one!

Attention: there is a new book contending for a spot on the list of my all time favorites, and it is this one! Can’t rave highly enough. I didn’t make a single note in it as I read (so unlike me) because I just wanted to soak it up and savor it... and because i know I will return to this one time and time again. The ordinary? The rhythms? The day to day life? It’s beautiful and meaningful and worshipful if we are intentional about it. And I’m so grateful for the invitation into deeper living in the middle of the mundane.

Got to hear Andy speak at an event here in Richmond a few weeks ago (which was AWESOME) and read this one to prepare (but just now finished it, oops). It’s a great, thorough, well-researched and well-written book on culture and creating from a Christian perspective. I found it illuminating and informative, as well as encouraging despite the mess we seem to have made of much of our culture these days. // “All true cultural creativity happens at the edges of the horizons of the possible, so by definition our most culturally creative endeavors have a high risk of failure.”