What did you read this year?
Katelyn’s
average rating for
2023
3.7
3.7
An extremely strange and at times bewildering book that is perfectly pitched for approx. 3 percent of the U.S. population that is Very Online. Thankfully, I am in that 3 percent. I didn't love the writing format of short blog-like updates but found the last third of the book quite moving.
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The thing that struck me on a re-read (the first read was 13 years ago, and due to immaturity I didn't appreciate some of it) is that its love for the world and love for God exist on the same plane. The closer you turn toward God, the closer you are to loving the world as the world, in its specificity and materiality. Which is why I think this book has meant so much to a particular kind of Christian who grew up absorbing that to love God was to h
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