It’s 2018, kids. I know this, but I’m still looking back, just a little. I wanted to share my Best Books of 2017 list. These are not all books that came out in 2017, but the best of the 70 books that I read in 2017. (70 books is kinda insane and that is a record I’m not even going to try to top.)
A Few Good Books: November
Small Great Things will stick with me for a while, I think. Told from three different perspectives, the story begins when a black labor and delivery nurse is told not to interact with the baby of two white supremacists (at their request). Understaffed, the baby goes into distress on her watch and ends up dying, at which point the nurse is charged with murder. The story is told through the perspectives of the nurse, her public defender and the father of the baby.
Clearing the Lot
The last few years have been a tearing down of sorts for me. A clearing of the lot, if you will. I’ve come to realize in the last few years that my faith was built on a faulty foundation. It wasn’t all bad, and it was built with good intentions, but faulty nonetheless. I built my faith house on that bad foundation and then kept living in it. Over the years I pursued spiritual growth and transformation, and I did find those things. But that growth was like renovating a kitchen in a house built on a bad foundation. Things looked and felt a lot better, but it didn’t really stop my house from crumbling when the storm came.
What the Parenting Books Taught Me... (part two)
What the Parenting Books Taught Me... (part one)
So I read the book cover to cover before Liam was born, subscribed whole heartedly to the method and felt super good and a little bit superior about all that sleep I was going to be getting and the non-convenient store robbing kid I was going to raise because I was committed to this particular method.