The Shack
It's been much too long since I've posted, due to both a lack of desire to sit down and write and busyness. I've still been traveling quite a bit (a quick trip to Florence, Nashville, and Chicago last week to watch the Braves at Wrigley) and I guess I could spend some space commenting on things like that, but I read a book on Saturday that I need to spend some time writing about.
I'd read about The Shack in early February, thanks to a note about it on Mike Cope's blog. Anna got it and read it a few weeks ago, passed it on to Mom, who then passed it around some of our family. We got back from Chicago Friday night and I didn't have anything to do on Saturday until a 4:00 wedding, which I decided to spend on the couch reading, something I'd not really done in a while. And once I started, I couldn't put it down. I had kidded Grandma, who came over for lunch, that I'd finish it that day and leave it at the house instead of taking it back to Tuscaloosa with me -- I didn't really think I'd get through it that quickly. But I did; I flew through it. I'm not a great critic of books, whether they're well-written or not, if it's good literature or a good read, if it's something that will appeal to a large audience or if it's just something that hit me at just the right time in just the right spot. All that to say, I really think this is a great book; a lot of the immediate reason for that is because this was something I think I desperately needed to read and it definitely spoke directly to my heart at a perfect time.
At the end of the book, the author asks that in spreading the word about the book not to give away the plot, so I won't be commenting on that, which will make it somewhat difficult to go into the different ways I've been hit by the story and its insights, challenges, comforts, and ideas. But I did want to throw it out there that I'm re-reading it right now (I bought two copies yesterday) and will be posting some of the thoughts from it (in a plot-saving way) later in the week.
If you've not gotten your hands on this book yet, do so. Right. Now. www.theshackbook.com
I'd read about The Shack in early February, thanks to a note about it on Mike Cope's blog. Anna got it and read it a few weeks ago, passed it on to Mom, who then passed it around some of our family. We got back from Chicago Friday night and I didn't have anything to do on Saturday until a 4:00 wedding, which I decided to spend on the couch reading, something I'd not really done in a while. And once I started, I couldn't put it down. I had kidded Grandma, who came over for lunch, that I'd finish it that day and leave it at the house instead of taking it back to Tuscaloosa with me -- I didn't really think I'd get through it that quickly. But I did; I flew through it. I'm not a great critic of books, whether they're well-written or not, if it's good literature or a good read, if it's something that will appeal to a large audience or if it's just something that hit me at just the right time in just the right spot. All that to say, I really think this is a great book; a lot of the immediate reason for that is because this was something I think I desperately needed to read and it definitely spoke directly to my heart at a perfect time.
At the end of the book, the author asks that in spreading the word about the book not to give away the plot, so I won't be commenting on that, which will make it somewhat difficult to go into the different ways I've been hit by the story and its insights, challenges, comforts, and ideas. But I did want to throw it out there that I'm re-reading it right now (I bought two copies yesterday) and will be posting some of the thoughts from it (in a plot-saving way) later in the week.
If you've not gotten your hands on this book yet, do so. Right. Now. www.theshackbook.com
posted by Adam at 5:49 PM
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