What's on your list?

From Jennifer L. Holberg

I’m just back from two weeks on the road, so my apologies for this week’s abbreviated blog. 

For one of the weeks I was away, I attended the inaugural Buechnerfest, hosted by the Buechner Institute at King College. It was a lovely time of good books and good conversation. And as always when one is around book-loving folks, I came away with appreciation for old favorites as well as recommendations for books to add to my to-read list.

The New York Times has, of late, been having its own little mini-fest surrounding faith and fiction, encouraging its writers and readers to contribute suggestions of “favorite religious fiction.” The responses include a good many usual suspects, but it is worth checking out nevertheless.

So…what are you reading this summer? What are you recommending that we read or re-read again? What, in your opinion, are the best texts that address faith in fiction? Share your responses in the comments, if you’d like.  

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[Sara Tolsma]

Although neither of these are new, I recently read The Mysterious Stranger (Twain) and Year of Wonder (Brooks), both of which caused me to think about the role of evil in our world, why good and bad things happen to "good and bad" people alike and what an appropriate response to evil and suffering is.