I’m right in the middle of reading The Shack by William Young. This book is just unlike anything I’ve ever read. It’s absolutely exploding through the book world and I tell you: you gotta read it! It’s very difficult to describe, which makes it all the more miraculous that it’s soared to the top. The reason for it’s great popularity, I believe, is that it deals with going to the dark and painful places of your history, and meeting God there. While it’s official genre is “religious fiction”, it’s very prophetic in addressing the stuff we keep hidden in the back rooms of our lives that are secretly shaping and distorting our picture of who God is.
Pick it up at Barnes and Noble and let me know what you think. I promise it’ll challenge you and mess with your thinking…don’t give up on it, though. I think it’s a really important book for everyone who’s ever been hurt or felt abandoned.
Hi there Bo,
I just bought this book on Cheryl’s recommendation…I brought it with me in my purse when meeting a friend and she was reading it as she waited for me…I haven’t started it yet…I have some continuing education that I have to get busy on and I know that I will pick a book over the necessary task…but I plan to tackle it soon and I will let you know my thoughts!
I am so glad to have your blog address again…looking forward to reading what I have missed.
Helen
Oh goodness, Helen, I can totally identify with the big trick it is to fit a work of fiction into the rest of the required reading! This one sat on a table for days before I had a chance to pick it up…and I’m still trying to get back to it and finish. Tomorrow! Tomorrow it shall be accomplished!! 🙂
Hello Dearest Bo,
It’s nice to get to be reading your posts again!
I was wondering if you had snagged this book. There are moments in the story that are etched on my mind and continue to make me think about some of the questions asked in deeper ways than ever before. I continually wondered…”How did he know all of the questions I’ve had…?” and I believe the answers were divinely inspired. So much laughter and tears all from one book. Just like life…
Yep – I snagged it the very day you told me about it. Then I recommended it and our bookstore at church has been selling out…such a cool thing to read something so unique, compelling and meaningful. The first night I read it, I tossed and turned thinking about it all and it’s been a long time since a book has had that kind of effect on me.
I was given this book by a friend and I really got into it until his cabin experience.. it all of a sudden turned into a comedy for me.. It lost me there!! I thought it might make a really great movie!!
… and I was just curious!! Who’s Joe (in BolovesJoe)!! ;))
Joe is my son and he was standing next to me when I chose a new email address a lotta years ago. 🙂