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A review by sarahleighreads
Surprised by Oxford by Carolyn Weber
4.0
I really enjoyed listening to this audiobook about a young woman's journey from a "none" with a difficult childhood to a committed Christian while attending Oxford on a full scholarship. Since this is a memoir, it's hard to judge some of the stories related. Some of her conversations just seem...too fanciful, like they might have been embellished in the intervening years.
The writing definitely belongs to a highly educated literature major. It is sumptuous, beautiful, and littered with literary references from Dante to Wordsworth and lots of people in-between.
She wrote a second memoir going more into depth about her relationship with her now husband and the dating scene as a new Christian that I will be picking up.
The writing definitely belongs to a highly educated literature major. It is sumptuous, beautiful, and littered with literary references from Dante to Wordsworth and lots of people in-between.
She wrote a second memoir going more into depth about her relationship with her now husband and the dating scene as a new Christian that I will be picking up.