Archive - Dear, Strange Things

Book Review: The Blackbird & Other Stories

The Blackbird & Other Stories by Sally Thomas (Wiseblood Books, 2024). Last summer, you may remember, I was blown away by Sally Thomas’s gorgeously…

Jun 24 •

Book Review: Solo Planet

Solo Planet: How Singles Help the Church Recover Our Calling by Anna Broadway (NavPress, 2024). As a friend of mine tweeted not long ago, it’s a crazy…

Jun 10 •

May 2024

Book Review: Reading Genesis

Reading Genesis by Marilynne Robinson (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2024).

May 27 •

Book Review: Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent

Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent by Judi Dench and Brendan O’Hea (St. Martin’s Press, 2024). Audiobook read by Barbara Flynn and the authors.

May 13 •

April 2024

Book Review: Looking Up

Looking Up: A Birder’s Guide to Hope through Grief by Courtney Ellis (InterVarsity Press, 2024). Courtney Ellis is one of the very best people to follow…

Apr 29 •

Book Review: I Cheerfully Refuse

I Cheerfully Refuse by Leif Enger (Grove Press, 2024). Award-winning novelist Leif Enger has a knack for writing about journeys—strange, improbable…

Apr 15 •

March 2024

Book Review: The Evangelical Imagination

The Evangelical Imagination: How Stories, Images, and Metaphors Created a Culture in Crisis by Karen Swallow Prior (Brazos Press, 2023). The unexamined…

Mar 18 •

Book Review: What Monstrous Gods

What Monstrous Gods by Rosamund Hodge (Balzer & Bray, 2024).

Mar 4 •

February 2024

Book Review: Tears of Gold

Tears of Gold: Portraits of Yazidi, Rohingya, and Nigerian Women by Hannah Rose Thomas (Plough Publishing, 2024). Tears of Gold is a gut punch of a…

Feb 19 •

Book Review: Company

Company by Shannon Sanders (Graywolf Press, 2023). On one level, reading Shannon Sanders’s debut collection of short stories is like carefully piecing…

Feb 5 •

January 2024

Book Review: Diva

Diva by Daisy Goodwin (St. Martin’s Press, 2023). The 1953 recording of Tosca with Maria Callas once made me cry so hard, I almost had to pull off the…

Jan 22 •

Book Review: Once a Queen

Once a Queen by Sarah Arthur (Waterbrook, 2024). When I started reading Sarah Arthur’s new novel, Once a Queen, I thought I knew exactly where it was…

Jan 8 •

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