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The Great Divorce by C.S. Lewis

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adventurous funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.5

Shutter by Ramona Emerson

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dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

I loved the relationship with the grandmother.  The photography as a unifying structural device works well.  The Navajo cultural values and observations on the mix of Catholic and indigenous religious traditions added significance and depth.  The crime drama did not grab me at first (too much initial gore), but eventually hooked me and ended strong.
Awe: The New Science of Everyday Wonder and How It Can Transform Your Life by Dacher Keltner

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informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

3.75

Good introduction to the subject.  Broad approach.  I liked the “8 wonders of life” best.  Nice way of sorting the things we encounter that give us a feeling of awe.
A Different Way: Recentering the Christian Life Around Following Jesus by Christopher A. Hall

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informative inspiring medium-paced

3.5

If you’ve been at the topic of spiritual formation for a while, this will be mostly review.  I have a few quibbles, but overall solid.
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

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challenging dark funny sad medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward

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adventurous challenging dark emotional sad medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.75

Fortitude Required.  Definitely pay attention to the trigger warnings. There's a lot of very rough stuff here, but the careful crafting of characters, atmosphere, and landscape, along with dialect and dialogue make this nearly perfect, nearly a masterpiece. There are only a few places where it felt like the author should have stopped short of hammering the point home...or suggest rather than state explicitly. Still, WOW!
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann

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adventurous dark informative mysterious sad medium-paced

4.0

Singing the Lord's Song in a Strange Land: Hymnody in the History of North American Protestantism by Edith L. Blumhofer, David Rempel Smucker, Christopher Armstrong, Daniel Fuller, Mark A. Noll, Barbara Murison, Kay Norton, Katherine McGinn, D.G. Hart, Daniel Ramirez, Philip Goff, Scott E. Erickson

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Did not finish book.
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Hymns and Hymnody: Historical and Theological Introductions, Volume 3: From the English West to the Global South by Mark A. Lamport

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Did not finish book.
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The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain by Betty Edwards

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4.0