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slahlum's review against another edition
adventurous
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
sad
medium-paced
5.0
Content Warnings
Moderate: Cancer, Death, Animal death, and Death of parent
b_r_e_a_d's review
emotional
funny
hopeful
reflective
sad
slow-paced
5.0
I loved this book. The author has inspired me with his story.
juliasilge's review
3.0
I first read this book when I was in high school, and I liked it more at that stage in my life. In the first 1/4 or so of the book this time around, I thought I was going to hate it because the romance seemed melodramatic and immature and the privilege of the author (economic, class, etc) grated on me. I came around eventually, though, after getting further into their story of love, marriage, conversion to Christianity, and then death and grief. I felt kind of similarly about the role of C.S. Lewis in this book. I am a big, big fan of C.S. Lewis. At the beginning of this book I felt like, "Hmmmm, name-dropping much?" but by the end I came around to the importance of Lewis' role in Vanauken's life. Perhaps 3.5 stars.
sharlappalachia's review
5.0
Hard to explain how good this book is in a short review, but this book is really so hopeful and beautiful. I've not read it and have no intentions to, but this seems like the anti-A Little Life from what I've read about that title. I can't recommend A Severe Mercy enough.