A review by sofielser
Telling Secrets by Frederick Buechner

5.0

This is what candor looks like. There is so much truth in this. I have not read anything like this before. It is not so much what he says as how he says it. It is to real to be a novel but also to personal to be a Christian non-fiction. A memoir is obviously something else entirely. I loved the melodic language. I loved Fredericks way of expressing complicated aspects of life by elaborate thoughts through the simplest of words. There were a few times where I struggled following his line of thoughts since English ain't my first language, but eventually I understood, it just took a little effort. I'm glad he taught me what homiletics is. I could not resist to write down a couple of profound quotes, which rarely happens to me. In the end, despite of everything, he gives the glory to God. And for that, anything below five stars would be a crime.